Thus is this quene in plesaunceand in Ioye, 1150 With al this newe lusty folk of Troye.
O sonnes leef, O Ioves doughter dere, Plesaunce of love, O goodly debonaire, In gentil hertes ay redy to repaire!
What, god for-bede alwey that ech plesaunce In o thing were, and in non other wight!
Your plesaunce is to laughen whan I syke, 10 And thus ye me from al my blisse exyle.
To me is noon so high plesaunce As of his persone daliaunce.
Alle men wole holde thee for musarde, That debonair have founden thee, 4035 It sit thee nought curteis to be; To do men plesaunce or servyse, In thee it is recreaundyse.
It is hir wone plesaunce for to take, To seen hir servaunts dyen for hir sake!
O sonnes lief, O Ioves doughter dere, Plesaunce of love, O goodly debonaire, In gentil hertes ay redy to repaire!
The plesaunce and the Ioye The whiche that now al torned in-to galle is, Have I had ofte with-inne yonder walles!
Sidenote: Not after 1449] Trusty and weel be loved cosyn, I comaunde me to zow, desyryng to here of zowre weelfare and good spede in zowre matere, the qwech I prey God send zow to his plesaunce and to zoure hertys ease.
For any thynge in the werd [world] meve my Lord of Oxenford and my cosyn Sir Miles Stapulton that they awayte up on my seyd Lord in the most wurchepfull wyse that they kun, and do hym as good attendaunce and plesaunce as they mown.
Al your plesaunce wol I folwen fayn; But yet I hope it be nat your entente That I smoklees out of your paleys wente.
O Ianuarie, dronken in plesaunce Of mariage, see how thy Damian, Thyn owene squyer and thy borne man, 1790 Entendeth for to do thee vileinye.
This Ire is a ful greet plesaunce to the devel; for it is the develes fourneys, that is eschaufed with the fyr of helle.
For sith that verray hevene is boght so dere, With tribulacioun and greet penaunce, How sholde I thanne, that live in swich plesaunce 1650 As alle wedded men don with hir wyvis, Come to the blisse ther Crist eterne on lyve is?
The bleak Newfoundland coast had already blossomed with fanciful names; there was the Bay of Plesaunce and the Bay of Flowers, Robin Hood's Bay and the River of Bonaventure; there was the Harbor of Formosa and the Harbor of Heartsease.
I pray to God yive hir prosperite; And so hope I that he wol to yow sendePlesaunce ynough unto your lyves ende.
For al vertue and al worthinesse of plesaunce in hem haboundeth.
To myn advyse, good was his purveyaunce 165 Whan he her chase to his maistresse aloon, If that her hert were set to his plesaunce As moche as was her beauteous persone.
And they wit have in hem, and grace to come to 95 suche thinges, yet shulde they cese til their heedes them cleped, although profit and plesaunce shulde folowe.
Who hath no cold, of hete hath no deynte, The toon for the tother asked is expresse; And of plesaunce knoweth non the certeynte 355 But it be wonne with thought and hevinesse.
A lightsom herte, a folly of plesaunce 405 Are moch better, the lesse whyl they abyde; They make you thinke, and bring you in a traunce; But that seknesse wil sone be remedyed.
Good or worship therof is seldom seyn; Wherefore I wil not make no suche aray 570 As for to fynde a plesaunce but barayn, Whan it shal cost so dere, the first assay.
As sone as love beginneth to remewe, Al plesaunce goth anon, in litel space; For my party, al that shal I eschewe, Whyls that the soule abydeth in his place.
Poore clerkes, for witte of schole, I sette in churches, and made suche persones to preche; and tho was service in holy churche honest and devout, in 45 plesaunce bothe of god and of the people.
Al the thoughtes, besy doinges, 140 and plesaunce in thy might and in thy wordes that thou canst devyse, ben but right litel in quytinge of thy dette; had she not ben, suche thing hadde not ben studyed.
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