Anno Domini
1555.
CONTENTS.
CAP. PAGE [1. Howe Graunde Amoure walked in a medowe, and met with Fame envyroned with tongues of fyre] 4 [2. Of the swete report of Fame of the fayre lady La Bell Pucell, in the tower of Musike] 11 [3. Howe Fame departed from Graunde Amoure, and left him Governaunce and Grace, and how he went to the tower of Doctrine] 14 [4. Howe he was let in by Countenaunce, the portresse, and of the marveylous buildyng of the same tower] 16 [5. How Science sent him first to Gramer, where he was receyved by dame Congruitie] 21 [6. Howe he was receyved of Logyke] 25 [7. Howe he was receyved of Rethoryke, and what rethoryke is] 27 [8. Of the first part, called Invencion, and a commendacion of poetes] 29 [9. A replication against ignoraunt persones] 32 [10. Of Disposition, the ii. parte of rethoryke] 34 [11. Of Elocution, the thirde part of rethoryke, with colouryng of sentences] 37 [12. Of Pronunciation, the iiii. part of rethoryke] 47 [13. Of Memory, the v. part of rethorike] 50 [14. A commendation of Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate] 52 [15. Of Arsmetrike] 56 [16. Of Musike: mundain, humayn, and instrumental] 58 [17. Howe Graunde Amoure was enamoured of La Bell Pucell in the tower of Musike, and met with Counsayle in a temple] 64 [18. Of the dolorous and lowly disputacion betwene La Bell Pucell and Graunde Amoure] 77 [19. Howe La Bell Pucell graunted Graunde Amoure love, and of her dispiteous departage] 87 [20. Of the great sorowe that Graunde Amour made after her departyng, and of the wordes of Counsayl] 93 [21. Howe Graunde Amoure went to Geometry, and what geometry is] 99 [22. Of dame Astronomie] 103 [23. Of the direct operation of nature] 106 [24. Of the fyve internall wyttes] 108 [25. Of the hye influences of the supernall bodies] 112 [26. Howe Graunde Amoure departed from the tower of Science, and went to the tower of Chivalry, where he was let in by Fortytude] 114 [27. Of the marveylous argument betwene Mars and Fortune] 117 [28. Howe Minerve ledde Graunde Amoure to kyng Melyzyus, whiche made hym knyght] 127 [29. Howe he departed from kynge Melyzyus, with his grayhoundes and Attendaunce his varlet, and met with False Reporte, that chaunged his name to Godfrey Gobilyve] 134 [30. Howe Graund Amoure in the temple of Venus made his supplication] 144 [31. The copy of a letter that Venus sent to La Bell Pucell] 150 [32. Howe Godfrey Gobilive was taken of Correction and punyshed] 156 [33. Howe Graunde Amoure disconfited the gyant with thre heads, and was received bi iii. ladies] 161 [34. Howe he met with Perceveraunce, and reposed hym in the manour place of dame Comfort] 170 [35. Howe he vainquyshed a gyaunt with seven heades, and was received of vi. ladyes] 178 [36. How he made oblacyon to the godes Pallas and sayled over the tempestuous flode] 185 [37. How he dyscomfited the wonderfull monstre of the vii. mettalles made by enchauntment] 191 [38. How he was received of La Bell Pucell] 195 [39. The mariage of Graund Amour and La Bell Pucell] 200 [40. How whan Graunde Amoure had lived longe wyth La Bell Pucell, he was arrested by Aege, that brought unto him Polycy and Avaryce] 202 [41. Howe he was arested by Death] 203 [42. Howe Remembraunce made his epytaphy on his grave] 205 [43. Howe Fame came into the temple wyth burnyng tongues and other prayse] 208 [44. Howe Tyme came into the temple in marvaylous semilitude, and of his replycation] 212 [45. Howe Eternyte came into the temple, and of her vertuous Exhortacyon] 218 [46. The excusation of the auctour] 220
¶ This boke, called the Pastime of Pleasure, was made and compyled by Stephen Hawes, one of the gromes of the most honorable chambre of our soverayne lorde Kynge Henry the Seventh, the xxi. yere of his most noble reyne; chapitred and marked after the table here before sette.
THE
PASTIME OF PLEASURE.
Ryght myghty prynce and redoubted soverayne,
Saylinge forth well in the shyppe of grace,
Over the waves of this lyfe uncertayne
Ryght towarde heven to have dwellyng place,
Grace dothe you guyde in every doubtfull cace.