The assemble of goddes

by

John Lydgate

Printed at Westminster
by Wynkyn de Worde about the year
1500

Cambridge
at the University Press
1906

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The work here reprinted formed part of the famous volume of black-letter tracts (formerly marked AB. 4. 58), which came to the University Library in 1715 by the gift of King George the First with the rest of the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely. No other copy of this edition is recorded to be in existence.

The types used are Caxton's type 3 (for the title) and Wynkyn de Worde's type 3, with final m and n etc. from type 1 (in the rest of the book). This type 3 is not known to have been used before 1499.

Mr Sayle remarks that the woodcut illustration is taken from Caxton's second edition (ab. 1483-4) of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

FRANCIS JENKINSON

1906 March 5.

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I certify that I have printed 250 copies only of this facsimile, that the impressions have been rubbed off the plates and the negatives destroyed.

P. DUJARDIN

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¶ Phebus is as moche to saye as the Sonne. ¶ Apollo is the same or elles God of syght. ¶ Morpleus                      Shewer of dremis ¶ Pluto God of hell. ¶ Mynos Iuge of hell. ¶ Cerberus Porter of hell. ¶ Colus the wynde or God of the Eyre. ¶ Dyana Goddesse of wode and chase. ¶ Phebe the Mone or Goddesse of waters. Aurora Goddes of the morow or spryng of the daye ¶ Mars God of batyll ¶ Iupiter God of wysdom. ¶ Iuno Goddesse of rychesse ¶ Saturne God of colde. ¶ Ceres Goddesse of corne. ¶ Cupydo God of loue. ¶ Othea Goddesse of wysdome.