For never yet thy grace no wight sente So blisful cause as me, my lyf to lede In alle Ioye and seurtee, out of drede.
Certes, me semeth that I see the felonous covines of wikked men 220 habounden in Ioye and in gladnesse.
His olde wo, that made his herte swelte, Gan tho for Ioye wasten and to-melte, And al the richesse of his sykes sore At ones fledde, he felte of hem no more.
The whiche delyt only considerede Epicurus, and iuged and establisshed that delyt is 55 the sovereyn good; for as moche as alle othre thinges, as him thoughte, bi-refte awey Ioye and mirthe fram the herte.
And if to lese his Ioye he set a myte, Than semeth it that Ioye is worth ful lyte.
Quod tho Criseyde, and therwith-al him kiste, 1350 That where his spirit was, for Ioye he niste.
And somme songen clere Layes of love, that Ioye hit was to here, 140 In worshipinge and preisinge of hir make.
Who hadde Ioye than but his meynee, That hadden founde hir lord, hir governour?
This Eneas is come to Paradys (180) Out of the swolow of helle, and thus in Ioye Remembreth him of his estat in Troye.
Than thynke how greate Ioye he hath in heuen for that whiche is euerlastynge.
Ioye thou not in wyckednesse but sorowe [thou] rather.
Now for a conclusyon / ymagyne in thy mynde two cytees / one full of trouble & mysery whiche is helle / an other full of Ioyeand comforte whiche is paradyse.
Than thynke what sorowe & waylynge may be to them [that] for so lytell a thynge here haue lost so grete Ioye contynuell.
Also ymagyne the Ioye of paradyse / & how that shal neuer be fynysshed & how shortly and soone it may be goten.
Criseyde, al quit from every drede and tene, As she that iuste cause hadde him to triste, Made him swich feste, it Ioye was to sene, Whan she his trouthe and clene entente wiste.
This Ioye may not writen been with inke, This passeth al that herte may bithinke.
And thus Fortune a tyme ladde in Ioye Criseyde, and eek this kinges sone of Troye.
Now if he woot that Ioye is transitorie, As every Ioye of worldly thing mot flee, Than every tyme he that hath in memorie, The drede of lesing maketh him that he 830 May in no perfit selinesse be.
Ther-to desyr so brenningly me assaylleth, That to ben slayn it were a gretter Ioye To me than king of Grece been and Troye!
Who is it thẽ that will not labor with all his poure to come vnto so greate an excellẽcie / that he may become the frend of Godd / and forthwith ioye with Christ?
First telleth hit, whan Scipioun was come In Afrik, how he mette Massinisse, That him for Ioye in armes hath y nome.
Alwey in herte I rede thee Glad and mery for to be, 2290 And be as Ioyful as thou can; Love hath no Ioye of sorowful man.
Thar no man aske if I was blythe, Whan the savour soft and lythe Strook to myn herte withoute more, And me alegged of my sore, So was I ful of Ioye and blisse.
To hir, that is of so gret excellence, That what wight that first sheweth his presence, 170 When she is wroth and taketh of him no cure, He may not longe in Ioye of love endure.
Sich Ioye anoon therof hadde I, That I forgat my malady.
And who-so askith folily, He moot be warned hastily; And I ne wot what I may say, 2605 I am so fer out of the way; For I wolde have ful gret lyking And ful gret Ioye of lasse thing.
For thogh I wepe of teres ful a tyne, Yet may that wo myn herte nat confounde; 10 Your seemly voys that ye so smal out-twyne Maketh my thoght in Ioye and blis habounde.
No Queene more ioye hath tasted, yet woe my io- yes hath quite defaced.
Their dolefull state moste wisheth death, in dongion deepe of care my harte moste pensiue is, vnhappie state that wisheth death, withioye long life, eche wight doeth craue, in life who wanteth smart?
Then all the people began to laude and magnifie God, and to sing psalmes for ioye of the deliueaunce of their Duchesse, who was brought backe and reconducted into the Citie, with so great triumphe, as if she had made a seconde entrie.
But Fortune enuious of that pleasure, so long and great, with dolorous successe, tourned the ioye of those twoo louers into heauie and sorowefull ende.
Then the Romanies in great triumphe and reioyse intertaigned Horatius, and their ioye was the greater, for that the feare of their ouerthrowe was the nearer.
I pray to God to recompence it (we being vnable) and to giue you the ioye that you desire, and to mee the grace that I may do some agreeable seruice both in this and in all other things.
When these lawes were renewed, the Decemuiri went foorth, and openly in the assemblie deposed them selues, to the great ioye and comforte of them all.
So it is that seing the state of our present affaires, and fearing the daunger that may chaunce, I will for this time take my leaue of you, and goe about to put the same in order, that no negligence may slacke your ioye and desired pleasure.
For euer the latter ende of ioye is wo, God wotte, worldly ioye is soone ago.
They lyued in ioye and in felycite For eche of hem had other lefe and dere.
P] To the ryght honorable and my singular good Lady, Elizabeth Countes of Shrewsbury, Thomas Harman wisheth all ioye and perfite felicitie, here and in the worlde to come.
When Aeneas reaches Carthage he "is come to Paradys Out of the swolow of helle, and thus in Ioye Remembreth him of his estat in Troye.
The grete Ioye that was betwix hem two, Whan they be met, ther may no tunge telle.
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