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<Text id=Confessio>
<Author>Gower, John</Author>
<Title>Confessio Amantis</Title>
<Edition>The Complete Works of John Gower. G. C. Macaulay, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901</Edition>
<Date>1390-1393</Date>
<body>
<loc><locdoc>ConfessioP</locdoc>
<div0 n=P>
<l n=P.1>Of hem that writen ous tofore</l>
<l n=P.2>The bokes duelle, and we therfore</l>
<l n=P.3>Ben tawht of that was write tho:</l>
<l n=P.4>Forthi good is that we also</l>
<l n=P.5>In oure tyme among ous hiere</l>
<l n=P.6>Do wryte of newe som matiere,</l>
<l n=P.7>Essampled of these olde wyse</l>
<l n=P.8>So that it myhte in such a wyse,</l>
<l n=P.9>Whan we ben dede and elleswhere,</l>
<l n=P.10>Beleve to the worldes eere</l>
<l n=P.11>In tyme comende after this.</l>
<l n=P.12>Bot for men sein, and soth it is,</l>
<l n=P.13>That who that al of wisdom writ</l>
<l n=P.14>It dulleth ofte a mannes wit</l>
<l n=P.15>To him that schal it aldai rede,</l>
<l n=P.16>For thilke cause, if that ye rede,</l>
<l n=P.17>I wolde go the mi . . .