Principally ryght well to attayne

Her swete rewarde for thy besy payne.

O pensyfe herte, in the stormy pery

Mercury northwest thou mayst se appere,

After tempest to glad thyne emespery;

Hoyse up thy sayle, for thou must drawe nere

Towarde the ende of thy purpose so clere,

Remembre the of the trace and daunce

Of poetes olde wyth all the purveyaunce.

As morall Gower, whose sentencyous dewe