Do touche a trouth / and cloke it subtylly [clokeit] Whan fayre was phebus / [with] his bemes bryght [phebns] Aboue .xx. woulues / dyde me touse and rent [Aboue.xx.woulues] Let the mount with all braunches swete [mouut] Of ryght noble knyghtes / hardy and chyualrous [knyghees] Loue may appetyte / by naturall eleccyon [natururall] To mete togyders / by wonderfull ordynaunce [wonderull] Good be my guyde / and saynt George vnto borowe [aud] Ouer whiche dyde hãge / a floure of golde ryght fyne [foure] Seynge an ymage made full wonderly [madefull] For he there strength / may ryghtfully reuerce [steength] Sepe expugnauerunt me a iuuentute mea [expngnauerunt] In a grete dyspyte of the holy goost [grte] Her beaute clere / dooth my herte ouerthrowe [Her beuaet] Of late I sawe a boke of your makynge [aboke] Whiche that ye loue / withouten neclygence [wihtouten] May call it agayne / in the tyme future [futrure] Doone in tyme past / made many a byrde a dawe [abyrde] Reconstructions and Missing Text: Many one {weneth / the future t}ens to {brefe} _“tens” may be “sens”, but letter-spacing is wide_ I wolde graũt you loue / but it may nothỹge a{uayle} _The end of this line is cut off; the text is very long, necessitating the ũ and ỹ abbreviations._ _Reconstruction of the final stanza is mostly conjectural. The likeliest endings for the first two lines are “tendre” and “fayre”._ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The cõforte of louers, by Stephen Hawes