And fyrst the auctor nameth thys
book confessio amantis / that is to say
the shryfte of the louer / wheron alle
thys book shal shewe not onely the
loue humayn / but also of alle lyuyng
beestys naturally folio ¶ ix
How cupydo smote Johan Gower
with a fyry arowe and wounded hym
so that venus commysed to hym genyus
hyr preest for to here hys confessyon
folio ¶ x
How Genyus beyng sette / the louer
knelyng tofore hym prayeth the sayd
confessor to appose hym in his confessyon
folio ¶ xi
The confessyon of the amant of two
of the pryncipallist of his fyue wyttes
folio ¶ xi
How atheon for lokyng vpon Deane
was turned in to an herte folio ¶ xi
Of phorceus and hys thre doughters
whiche had but one eye / & how phorceus
slewe them folio ¶ xii
How the serpente that bereth the charbuncle
stoppeth his one ere wyth hys
tayle and that other wyth the erthe
whan he is enchaunted folio ¶ xii
How vlyxes escaped fro the marmaydys
by stoppyng of hys eerys
folio ¶ xii
Here foloweth that there ben vii dedely
synnes / of whome the fyrste is
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