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Title: The coforte of louers
The Comfort of Lovers

Author: Stephen Hawes

Release Date: August 15, 2007 [EBook #22326]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration:
The c[om]forte of louers]

The comforte of louers made and compyled by Steuen Hawes
somtyme grome of the honourable chambre of our late souerayne
lorde kynge Henry [the] seuenth (whose soule god pardon).
In the seconde yere of the reygne of our most naturall
souerayne lorde k[yn]ge Henry the eyght.

[Illustration:

& for your sake
I shall it take

holde this
a token y wys]

[P] The prohemye.

The gentyll poetes / vnder cloudy fygures
Do touche a trouth / and cloke it subtylly
Harde is to c[on]strue poetycall scryptures
They are so fayned / & made s[en]t[en]cyously
For som do wryte of loue by fables pryuely
Some do endyte / vpon good moralyte
Of chyu