English poem
Do touche a trouth / and cloke it subtylly [clokeit]
by Stephen Hawes (1474–1523)
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 h[an]ge / 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]