¶ By hym sat dame Ven{ us} { with} colour crystalline ¶ Whos long here shone as wyre of gold bry{ gh}t ¶ Cryspe was her skyn her eyen columbyne ¶ Rauysshed myne herte her chere was so ly{ gh}t ¶ Patrones of plesau{ n}ce be named wel she my{ gh}t ¶ A smocke was her wede garnysshed curyusli ¶ But all other she had a wanton eye
¶ On her hede she wered a red coper crowne ¶ A nosegay she had made ful plesauntly ¶ Bytwene her & aurora Apollo set hym doune ¶ Wyth his beames bryght he shone so ferue{ n}tly ¶ That he therwyth gladyd al { the} company ¶ A crown of pure gold was on his hede set ¶ In syne { that} he was mayster & lorde of { that} banket ¶ Nota ¶ Thus was the table set round aboute ¶ Wyth goddes & goddesses as i haue you told ¶ Awaytyng on the bord was a grete route ¶ Of sage phylosophers & poetes many fold ¶ There was sad Sychero & Arystotle olde ¶ Tholome Dorothe wyth Dyogenes ¶ Plato Myssehala and wyse Socrates
¶ Sortes & Saph[y]r{ us} { with} hermes stode behynd ¶ Auycen & Aueroys wyth hem were in fere ¶ Galyen & ypocras that physyk haue in mynd ¶ wyth help of Esculapyo{ n} toward he{ m} drow ner ¶ Vyrgyle Orace Ouyd and Omere ¶ Euclyde and albert yaue her attendaunce ¶ To do the godds & goddesses plesaunce
¶ Horeberded Orphe{ us} was there { with} his harpe. ¶ And as a poyt musycal made he melody Other mi{ n}stral had ther non saf Pan ga{ n} to carpe ¶ Of his leud bagpyp which caused { the} compani ¶ To law yet many mo ther we{ re} yf i shuld not ly ¶ Som yong som old both better and werse ¶ But mo of theyr names can I not reherce
¶ Of al maner deyntes there was habu{ n}dau{ n}ce ¶ Of metes & drynkes foyson plenteuous ¶ In cam Dyscord to haue varyaunce ¶ But there was no roum to set her i{ n} that hous ¶ The goddis remembred the scysme odious ¶ Among the thre goddesses { that} she had wrought Original has ¶ At the fest of Peleus wherfore they thought he instead of she ¶ They wold not { with} her dele in a venture ¶ Lest she hem brought to som inconuenyente ¶ She seyng this was wroth out of mesure ¶ And in that grete wrath out of { the} paleyse we{ n}t ¶ Say{ n}g to herself that chere shuld thei repent ¶ And anone { with} Attropes happed she to mete. ¶ As he had ben a gost came in a wy{ n}dy{ n}g shete