Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Bearb.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 4) (London, 1815) [Cicognara, 4650-4]

o/Fame.] WILLIAM CAXTON. 313

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A full page has 3S lines or verses. As t.his is the original work
from whicli Pope composed his celebi’ated Temple of Fame, a few
specimens may not be unacceptable; espeeially as similar ones have
been given at the foot of Pope’s text: some of wliich may be com-
pared witli the following. The prelude to the vision is thus :

For neeur syth I was born
Ne woman els me by forn
Mette I trowe sted fastly
So wonderful a clreme, as dide I
t He tenthe day of decembre

The whyche as I can remembre
I wyl make inuocacion
Wytli a deuoute specyal deuocion
Vnto the god of slepe anone
That dwellyth in a caue of stone
Vpon a streme that cometh fro lete
That is a flode ful vnswete
Besyde a folke that men clepe cymerye
Ther slepeth ay thys god vnmerye
Wyth hys slepy thousand sones

That allewey to slepe, her woon is. a ij rev.

The acoount of Diclo and JEneas has gi’eat intei’est. I shall selecfc
only a small portion of it;

Ther sawe I graue, how Eneas
Told to Dido euery caas
That hym was tyd vpon the see
And efte grauen was how that she
Made of hym shortly at a worde
Her lyf, her loue, her lust, her lord

Eor he to her a ti’aytour was
Wherfor she slowe her self alas