CONFESSIO AMANTIS

GOWER'S CONFESSION OF A LOVER

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. III.

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Incipit Liber Sextus.

Eft gula, que noftrum maculavit prima parentem
Ex vetito pomo, quo dolet omnis homo
Hec agit, ut corpus anime contraria fpirat,
Quo caro fit craffa, fpiritus atque macer.
Intus et exterius fi que virtutis habentur,
Potibus ebrietas conviciata ruit.

Merfa fopore labis, que Bachus inebriat hofpes,
Indignata Venus ofcula raro premit.

HE grete finne originall,
Which every man in gen-
eral [venimed,
Upon his birth hath en-
In paradis it was
timed,

Whan Adam of thilke appel bote,
His fwete morcel was to hote,
Which dedly made the mankinde.
And in the bokes as I finde

This vice, which fo out of reule
Hath fet us all, is cleped gule,

mif

I.

Hic in fexto libro

tractare intendit de

illo capitali vicio, quod gula dicitur,

nec non et de eiufdem duabus folummodo fpeciebus, videlicet ebri

etate et delicacia, ex quibus humane concupifcencie oblectamentum habundancius aug

mentatur.