Six Anonoymous Plays. First Series (C. 1510-1537); Comprising Four Elements--The Beauty and Good Properties of Women (Usually Known as Calisto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...palaces i-pight: I have steeds in stable stalwart and strong, Also streets and strands full strongly i-dight: For all the world wide I wot well is my name, All riches readily it renneth in me, All pleasure worldly, both mirth and game. Myself seemly in sale I send with you to be, For I am the world, I warn you all, Prince of power and of plenty: He that cometh not, when I do him call, I shall him smite with poverty, For poverty I part in many a place To them that will not obedient be. I am a king in every case: Methinketh I am a god of grace, The flower of virtue followeth me! Lo, here I sit seemly in se, I command you all obedient be, And with free will ye follow me. Jn/ans. Christ our king, grant you clearly to know the case. To meve of this matter that is in my mind, And clearly declare it, Christ grant me grace. Now, seemly sirs, behold on me, How mankind doth begin: I am a child, as you may see, Gotten in game and in great sin. Forty weeks my mother me found, Flesh and blood my food was tho: When I was ripe from her to sound, In peril of death we stood both two. Now to seek death I must begin, For to pass that strait passage For body and soul, that shall then twin, And make a parting of that marriage. Forty weeks I was freely fed Within my mother's possession: Full oft of death she was a-dread, When that I should part her from: Now into the world she hath me sent, Poor and naked, as ye may see, I am not worthily wrapped nor went, But poorly pricked in poverty. Now into the world will I wend, Some comfort of him for to crave. All hail! comely crowned king, God that all made you see and save! name? Mi-.ndus. Welcome, fair child, what is thy Infans. I wot not, sir, withouten blame; But oftime my mother in her game Called me Dalliance....