Coplande the prynter to the auctour
Your mynde consydered / and your good entent
Theffecte regarded / in euery maner case
Your cyrcumstaunce / and labour dylygent
Who wyll construe / is of grete effycace
Your sentences morally tenbrace
Concerneth reason of lauryate grauyte
Yonge tender hertes / taleete with amyte
Your aege also flourynge in vyrent youthe
So to bestowe is gretely to commende
Bookes to endyte of maters ryght vncouthe
Ensample gyuynge to all suche as pretende
In tharte of loue theyr myndes to condescende
In termes fresshe / theyr courage to endewe
Not with rude toyes / but elegant and newe.
Yet ben there many that lytell regarde
Your pleasures castell / inhabyte with Beaute
And I am sure wold gyue but small rewarde
For this your labour / and studyous dyte
But had ye compyled some maner subtylte
Lucre to gete / theyr neyghbour to begyle
They wolde alowe it a perfyte dyscrete style.
Thauctour.
My boke of loue / belonges to no suche arte
But to the pleasure / is his hoole affeccyon
Of gentyll people / whiche lyketh to take parte
In pleasaunt youth / with amorous dyleccyon
Honour regarded / in clene cyrcunspeccyon
Layenge aparte / all wylfull vayne desyre
To conforte them that brenne in louynge fyre.
Copland
Bokes of loue innumerable prynted be
I mene of ladyes / and many a hardy knyght
Without regarde of sensuall nycete
In loue exploytynge / truly with all theyr myght
But loue of golde / these dayes blyndeth the syght
Of men and women / hauynge theyr chefe delyte
Onely for mede to do theyr appetyte.
Thauctour
Enprynt this boke / Coplande at my request
And put it forth to euery maner state
It doost no good lyenge styll in my chest
To passe the tyme some wyll bye it algate
Cause it is newe / compyled now of late
At leest way yonge folke / wyll gladly seke recure
Beauty to gete in the toure of pleasure.
[Copland]
At your instaunce / I shall it gladly impresse
But the vtteraunce I thynke wyll wyll be but smale
Bokes be not set by / theyr tymes is past I gesse
The dyce and cardes / in drynkynge wyne and ale
Tables / cayles / and balles / they be now set a sale
Men lete theyr chyldren vse all suche harlotry
That byenge of bokes they vtterly deny.
Finit prologus
En passant le temps
sans mal penser. [type ornament]
Lenuoy de Robert Coplande lymprimeur.
A Ton aucteur / vaten petit liuret
Et luy prier / dexcuser ton empraint
Ce faulte ya / de par moy incorrect
Par sa copie souuent iestois constraint
De diuigner / ou lencre cestoit destaint
Ce nonobstant / ien ay fait mon debuoir
Pour son plesir / dassembler blanc et noir.
Treshonoure filg / du seigneur latimer
Surnom m e Neuyl / de noble parentaige
O maistre guill au me / en sens et vertu cler
Aucteur de ce / com m e bon clerc et saige
A vous / ie recommande cest ouuraige
De moy indigne / sinon par vostre suffraunce
En ce monstrant / ma folle ignoraunce
Fin de Lenuoy
Ballade royalle
THrone dhonneur / et de magnificence
Par excellence / triumphant en haulteur
Playne de vigeur / de doulce clemence
Par vraye semence / naturel seigneur
Henry la fleur / et gubernateur
Dengleterre / en refulgence
Dieu le garde / de mal / et de douleur
Et honny soit qui mal ypence.
R Coplande to thauctour
Take ye in gre / o worthy mayster myne
This rubryke frensshe / in verses incorrect
No meruayle is / though theyr speche be not fyne
For in scole nor countre / I neuer take effect
And from your boke / let them be vndeiect
Without your lycence / yf I dyde them impresse
Pardon I praye you / of this my homelynesse
En passant le temps sans mal pencer
Quod Coplande.
Your mynde consydered / and your good entent
Theffecte regarded / in euery maner case
Your cyrcumstaunce / and labour dylygent
Who wyll construe / is of grete effycace
Your sentences morally tenbrace
Concerneth reason of lauryate grauyte
Yonge tender hertes / taleete with amyte
Your aege also flourynge in vyrent youthe
So to bestowe is gretely to commende
Bookes to endyte of maters ryght vncouthe
Ensample gyuynge to all suche as pretende
In tharte of loue theyr myndes to condescende
In termes fresshe / theyr courage to endewe
Not with rude toyes / but elegant and newe.
Yet ben there many that lytell regarde
Your pleasures castell / inhabyte with Beaute
And I am sure wold gyue but small rewarde
For this your labour / and studyous dyte
But had ye compyled some maner subtylte
Lucre to gete / theyr neyghbour to begyle
They wolde alowe it a perfyte dyscrete style.
Thauctour.
My boke of loue / belonges to no suche arte
But to the pleasure / is his hoole affeccyon
Of gentyll people / whiche lyketh to take parte
In pleasaunt youth / with amorous dyleccyon
Honour regarded / in clene cyrcunspeccyon
Layenge aparte / all wylfull vayne desyre
To conforte them that brenne in louynge fyre.
Copland
Bokes of loue innumerable prynted be
I mene of ladyes / and many a hardy knyght
Without regarde of sensuall nycete
In loue exploytynge / truly with all theyr myght
But loue of golde / these dayes blyndeth the syght
Of men and women / hauynge theyr chefe delyte
Onely for mede to do theyr appetyte.
Thauctour
Enprynt this boke / Coplande at my request
And put it forth to euery maner state
It doost no good lyenge styll in my chest
To passe the tyme some wyll bye it algate
Cause it is newe / compyled now of late
At leest way yonge folke / wyll gladly seke recure
Beauty to gete in the toure of pleasure.
[Copland]
At your instaunce / I shall it gladly impresse
But the vtteraunce I thynke wyll wyll be but smale
Bokes be not set by / theyr tymes is past I gesse
The dyce and cardes / in drynkynge wyne and ale
Tables / cayles / and balles / they be now set a sale
Men lete theyr chyldren vse all suche harlotry
That byenge of bokes they vtterly deny.
Finit prologus
En passant le temps
sans mal penser. [type ornament]
Lenuoy de Robert Coplande lymprimeur.
A Ton aucteur / vaten petit liuret
Et luy prier / dexcuser ton empraint
Ce faulte ya / de par moy incorrect
Par sa copie souuent iestois constraint
De diuigner / ou lencre cestoit destaint
Ce nonobstant / ien ay fait mon debuoir
Pour son plesir / dassembler blanc et noir.
Treshonoure filg / du seigneur latimer
Surnom m e Neuyl / de noble parentaige
O maistre guill au me / en sens et vertu cler
Aucteur de ce / com m e bon clerc et saige
A vous / ie recommande cest ouuraige
De moy indigne / sinon par vostre suffraunce
En ce monstrant / ma folle ignoraunce
Fin de Lenuoy
Ballade royalle
THrone dhonneur / et de magnificence
Par excellence / triumphant en haulteur
Playne de vigeur / de doulce clemence
Par vraye semence / naturel seigneur
Henry la fleur / et gubernateur
Dengleterre / en refulgence
Dieu le garde / de mal / et de douleur
Et honny soit qui mal ypence.
R Coplande to thauctour
Take ye in gre / o worthy mayster myne
This rubryke frensshe / in verses incorrect
No meruayle is / though theyr speche be not fyne
For in scole nor countre / I neuer take effect
And from your boke / let them be vndeiect
Without your lycence / yf I dyde them impresse
Pardon I praye you / of this my homelynesse
En passant le temps sans mal pencer
Quod Coplande.