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CONFESSIO AMANTIS

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GOWER'S CONFESSION OF A LOVER

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. II.

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CHISWICK PRESS-PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM, TOOKS COURT,

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CONFESSIO AMANTIS.

Incipit Liber Quartus.

Dicunt accidiam fore nutricem viciorum,
Torpet et in cunctis tardaque lenta bonis,
Que fieri poffent bodie transfert piger in cras
Furatoque prius hoftia claudit equo.
Pofcenti tardo negat emolumenta Cupido,
Sed Venus in celeri ludit amore viri.

PON the vices to procede
After the cause of mannes

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Hic in quarto libro loquitur confeffor de fpeciebus accidie, quarum primam tardacionem

The firfte point of flouth vocat, cuius condi

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cionem pertractans amanti fuper hoc confequenter oppo

Lacheffe, and is the chefe nit.

of alle

And hath this properlich of kind

To leven alle thing behind.
Of that he mighte do nowe here
He tarieth all the longe yere

And evermore he faith: to morwe,
And fo he woll his time borwe

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