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Title: The Conuercyon of swerers
(The Conversion of Swearers)

Author: Stephen Hawes

Release Date: August 9, 2007 [EBook #22289]

Language: English

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[P]The Conuercyon of swerers.

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The frutefull sent[en]ce & the noble werkes
To our doctryne wryt[en] [in] olde [an]tyquyte
By many gret & ryght notable clerkes
Gro[un]ded on reason and hygh auctoryte
Dyde gyue vs example by good moralyte
To folowe the trace of trouth and ryght wysnes
Leuynge our synne and mortall wrechednes

By theyr wrytynge doth to vs appere
The famous actes of many a champyon
In the courte of fame renowned fayre and clere
And some endyted theyr entencyon
Cloked in coloure harde in construccyon
Specyally poetes vnder cloudy fygures
Couered the trouthe of all theyr scryptures

So hystoryagraphes all the worthy dedes
Of kynges and knyghtes dyde put in wrytynge
To be in mende for theyr memoryall medes
How sholde we now haue knowledgynge
Of thynges past / but by theyr endytynge
Wherfore we ought to prayse them doubteles
That spent theyr tyme in suche good busynes.

Amonge all other my good mayster Lydgate
The eloquent poete and monke of bury
Dyde bothe contryue and also translate
Many vertues bokes to be in memory
Touchynge the trouthe well and sentencyously
But syth that his deth was intollerable
I praye g