English poem
Pleasure
by Stephen Hawes (1474–1523)
O what pleasure to the intelligent It is to knowe and have perceyveraunce Of theyr connyng, so much expedient, And therof to have good utteraunce! Redyng newe thynges of so grete pleasaunce, Fedyng the mynd wyth foode insaciate, The tales newe they are so delicate.