r my sporte and playe
Wherfore by foly yf that they do synne
The holy goost maye well the batayle wynne

[P] Pucell.

Yf fortune wolde / for the payne ye haue taken
I wolde gra[un]t you loue / but it may noth[yn]ge a{uayle}
My loue is past / it can not be forsaken
Therfore I praye you leue your trauayle
Full lothe I were / your deth to bewayle
There is no nette / nor no tempted snare
But ye them knowe / wherfore ye maye beware

[P] Amour.

The snares and nettes / set in sondrye maner
Doone in tyme past / made many a byrde a dawe
The tempted gynnes / were sette so cyrculer
But euermore it is an olde sayd sawe
Examples past dooth theche one to withdrawe
Frome all suche perylles / wherfore than maye I
By grace of god / beware full parfytly

[P] Pucell.

Ye saye the trouthe / and I do not submytte
My wyll and thought to the lady Venus
As she is goddesse / and doth true loue knytte
Ryght so to determyne / the mater betwene vs
With assent of fortune / so good gracyous
Besechynge you now for to holde you styll
For these two ladyes / maye your mynde fulfyll

[P] Amour.

My ryght dere lady / I do therto consente
Swete are your wordes they confort my thought
Of Venus and fortune / I abyde the Iugement
But ryght dere lady / whome I longe haue sought
Forgete me not / remembre loue dere bought
Of my herte / I wolde ye knewe the preuyte
Than as I thynke ye wolde remembre me

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[** **] {th}at came ladyes [**] {yght} [** **]
[** **] {s}he our talkynge / [that] tyme dyde surrendr{e}
[** **] {ma}dame / ye do well here repayre
{To that good}ly temple / for to take the ayre
With that sodaynly / I truely awoke
Takynge pen and ynke to make this lytell boke

[P] Go lytell treaty se submyte the humbly
To euery lady / excusynge thy neclygence
Besechynge them / to remembre truely
How thou doost purpose to do thy dylygence
To make suche bokes by true experyence
From daye to daye theyr pastyme to attende
Rather to dye / than thau wolde them offende

[P] Enprynted
by me Wynkyn de
Worde.

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Errors and Anomalies

Initial "y" was randomly printed as "Y" or "y". Initial "W" is
also small, but distinguishable from "w" elsewhere in the line.
Abbreviations such as [an] or [with] were used only in very long lines
that would otherwise