Occasionally there were some letters printed upside down. I have rendered them inside brackets, e.g., [x]. The poem uses two types of punctuation--a dot, meaning longer pause, and a slash, meaning shorter pause or comma. I have corrected many errors and noted them on a right margin. Also this printing was missing three lines and one line had several letters missing from the middle of the line. I have marked them on a right margin and the correct reading supplied from the modern edition. There were a couple of places where the word "nota" or "note" was printed, but the actual notes weren't found in this reprint. There's a fair chance that those notes were never printed. The original page images are available with html edition.]
Printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about the year 1500
The work here reprinted formed part of the famous volume of black-letter tracts (formerly marked AB. 4. 58), which came to the University Library in 1715 by the gift of King George the First with the rest of the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely. No other copy of this edition is recorded to be in existence.
The types used are Caxton's type 3 (for the title) and Wynkyn de Worde's type 3, with final m and n etc. from type 1 (in the rest of the book). This type 3 is not known to have been used before 1499.
Mr Sayle remarks that the woodcut illustration is taken from Caxton's second edition (ab. 1483-4) of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
I certify that I have printed 250 copies only of this facsimile, that the impressions have been rubbed off the plates and the negatives destroyed.
Here foloweth the Interpretacoin of the names of goddes and goddesses as is reherced in this tretyse folowynge as Poetes wryte
¶ Phebus is as moche to saye as the Sonne. ¶ Apollo is the same or elles God of syght. ¶ Morpleus Shewer of dremis ¶ Pluto God of hell. ¶ Mynos Iuge of hell. ¶ Cerberus Porter of hell. ¶ Colus the wynde or God of the Eyre. ¶ Dyana Goddesse of wode and chase. ¶ Phebe the Mone or Goddesse of waters. Aurora Goddes of { the} morow or spry{ n}g of { the} daye ¶ Mars God of batyll ¶ Iupiter God of wysdom. ¶ Iuno Goddesse of rychesse ¶ Saturne God of colde. ¶ Ceres Goddesse of corne. ¶ Cupydo God of loue. ¶ Othea Goddesse of wysdome. ¶ Fortune The varyant Goddesse ¶ Pan God shepherdes. ¶ Isys Goddesse of frute. ¶ Neptunus God of the se. ¶ Mynerue Goddes of { the} batail or of heruest ¶ Bachus God of wyne. ¶ Mercuryus God of langage. ¶ Venus Goddesse of loue. ¶ Dyscorde Goddes of debate & stryffe ¶ Attropos Dethe ¶ Here endeth { the} interpretacyon of the names of Goddes & Goddesses as is reherced in the treatyse folowynge as poetes wryte.