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Title: The assembly of gods: or, The accord of reason and sensuality in the fear of death;
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Triggs, Oscar Lovell, 1865-1930
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Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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modern treatment of the theme. But Bunyan writes directlv in
the manner of the old fables that dealt with Mansouls wars.

Ixxvi The Allegory of the Vices and Virtues.

One of the last of these inicrocosniic encounters and the most
ingenious and involved of all, is the Purple Island, published in
1633 by the poet Fletcher, who is called by Francis Quarles "the
Spenser of this age." The Purple Island is Man. Its prince is
Intellect. The Senses constitute a pentarchy. Cosmos captains
the rout of Vices that attack the Island. The Virtues defend and
conquer (v. cantos vii-viii, ix-x, xi-xii).
Considering the possibilities of Lydgate's theme it is to be regret-
ted that he did not grapple with it more successfully. His work
exhibits intelligence, some degree of imagination, but is devoid of
passion and aesthetic apprehension. He marshaled numberless
hosts, his design was so comprehensive as to include the upper
firmament, the lowest hell, and the earth and man, yet the Assembly
of Gods is almost the least of the poems attempting to portray the
Holy War.

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THE ASSEMBLY OF GODS.
By Don John Lydgate.

* Here foloweth the Intrepretacion of the names of goddys &
goddesses as ys rehersyd in þs tretyse folowyng as poetes wryte:

PHEBUS : ys as moche to sey as þe Sonne.
CERES : Goddesse of Corne.
APOLLO : ys the same or ellys God of Lyght
CUPIDO : God of loue.
OTHEA : Goddes of Wysdom
MORPHEUS : Shewer of Dremes.
FORTUNE : þe variaunt Goddesse.
PLUTO : God of Hell.
PAN : God of Shepardes.
MYNOS : luge of Hell.
ISYS : Goddesse of Frute.
CERBERUS : Porter of Hell.
NEPTUNUS : God of the See.
EOLUS : þe Wynde or God of þe Eyre.
MYNERUE : Goddess of Batayll or of Harueyst
DIANA : Goddesse of Woode & Chace.
PHEBE : þe Mone or Goddes of Watyres.
BACHUS : God of Wyne.
AURORA : Goddes of þe Morow or the Spryng of the Day.
MERCURIUS : God of Langage.
VENUS : Goddesse of Loue.
MARS : God of Batayll.
DISCORDE : Goddesse of Debate and Stryfe.
IUBYTER : God of Wysdom.
IUNO : Goddesse of Rychesse.
ATTROPOS : Dethe.
SATURNE : God of Colde.

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Whan Phebus in the Crabbe had nere hys cours ronne

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