Classic Poem

The auctour. [type ornament]

Rychenes in youth with good gouernaunce
Often helpeth age whan youth is gone his gate
Both yonge and olde must haue theyr sustenau n ce
Euer in this worlde soo fekyll and rethrograte
Ryght as an ampte the whiche all gate
Trusseth and caryeth for his lyues fode
Eny thynge that whiche hym semeth to be good

Crysten folke ought for to haue
Open hertes vnto god almyght
Puttynge in theyr mynde thyr soule to saue
Lernynge to come vnto the eternall lyght
And kepe well theyr and trouth plyght
Notynge alwaye of theyr last ende
Durynge theyr lyues how they the tyme spende.

Here endeth the complaynt of to late maryed
For spendynge of tyme or they a borde
The sayd holy sacramente haue to lo n ge taryed
Humayne nature tassemble and it to accorde
Empre n ted in fletestrete by Wynkyn de warde
Dwellynge in the famous cyte of London
His hous in the same at the sygne of the sone.