Clamor in ore canum, dum vociferantur in unum,
Est sibi campana psallitur unde Deo.
Stat sibi missa brevis devotio longaque campis,
Quo sibi cantores deputat esse canes.
(p. 176.)
Conficit ex vitris gemma oculo pretiosas.
(p. 275.)
Rex es, regina satis est, tibi sufficit una.
(p. 316.)
[622] "Confessio Amantis." There exists of it no satisfactory edition, and it is to be hoped the Early English Text Society, that has already rendered so many services, will soon render this greatly needed one, Pauli's edition, London, 1857, 3 vols. 8vo, is very faulty; H. Morley's edition (Carisbrooke Library, London, 1889, 8vo) is expurgated. Gower wrote in English some minor poems, in especial "The Praise of Peace" (in the "Political Poems," of Wright, Rolls). The "Confessio" is written in octo-syllabic couplets, with four accents. This poem should be compared with French compilations of the same sort, and especially with the "Castoiement d'un père à son fils," thirteenth century, a series of tales in verse, told by the father to castigate and edify the son, text in Barbazan and Méon, "Fabliaux," Paris, 1808, 4 vols. 8vo, vol. ii.
[623] "Confessio," Pauli's ed., p. 2.