The Example of Vertu / The Example of Virtue

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¶ Fyrste a prologue.
¶ How youth mette with discrecyon in a medowe in his dreme & was reformed by her prouerbes ca.i.
¶ How youth with discrecyon sayled ouer the daungerous passage of vayne glorye and arryued in a fayre Ilonde longynge to foure ladyes named Hardynes / Sapyence / fortune / & nature. ca.ii
¶ Of the meruaylous palays of fortune ca.iii.
¶ Of the triumphaunt estate of hardynes. ca.iiii.
¶ Of the gloryfyed towre of sapyence. ca.v.
¶ Of the stronge operacyons of nature ca.vi
¶ How these foure ladyes pleeded at the barre before Iustyce whiche of theym was moost proufytable vnto mankynde & of the Iugement of Iustyce. ca.vii.
¶ How youth by the waye mette w t lechery rydynge on a gote and pryde maned with couetyse on an olyphaũtes backe in a fayre castell / & how by the ayde of
¶ How Sapyence & dyscrecyon ledde youth ouer the narowe brydge of vanyte of the worlde to the palays of y e kynge of loue & of his meruaylous appareyl. ca.x