Hoccleve's works. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?

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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited,

1892-1925.

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"Hoccleve's works. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ADQ4048.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 25, 2024.

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(5) The aungelys song within. [folio 30]

[7 stanzas of 7 lines each, ababb, cc.]

(1)

                        Al worshippe, wisdam, welthe and worthinesse,
                        Line 1 
                      
                        All bounte, beawte, ioye and blisfulheed,
                      
                        All honure, vertue, and alle myghtynesse,
                      
                        All grace & thankyng, vnto thin godheede,
                      
                        ffrom whom alle grace & mercy doth procede!
                        Line 5 
                      
                        Ay praised be thu, lord, in Trinite,
                      
                        And euere honured be thi maieste!
                        Line 7

(2)

                        That be mankynde oure nombre is encreased,
                        Line 8 
                      
                        Of this that longe have be in pilgrymage;
                      
                        And now is alle hire noyows laboure cessed,
                      
                        That was be-gonne here first[ë] dayës age.
                      
                        Here is the port of sekire áryuáge
                        Line 12 
                      
                        Honured be thu, blissed lord on hye, [folio 30b] 
                      
                        And wolcome be ye to owre companye!
                        Line 14

(3)

                        Now passed be youre perilous auentures,
                        Line 15 
                      
                        and alle youre Auenture hath an endë take.
                      
                        Right wolcome be ye, blissed crëatures!
                      
                        Tyme it is, þat scrippe & burdon ye forsake,
                      
                        ffor now ye schal no longere iourne make;

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                        Line 19 
                      
                        and aftir laboure, tyme is of quiete;
                      
                        Alle hevinesse & Anguysch is for-gete.
                        Line 21

(4)

                        For ye have don a nobill victory,
                        Line 22 
                      
                        And youre labourë nobly díspended,
                      
                        That so ageyn youre treble enemye
                      
                        Youre selffë myghtely haue défendid;
                      
                        And þat ye have mysdon, it is amended
                        Line 26 
                      
                        Be sustenaunce of purgatory peyne;
                      
                        Thanked be thu, [o] Ihesu souereyne!
                        Line 28

(5)

                        In heven blisse, here schul ye be with vs
                        Line 29 
                      
                        Vnto the day of fynall iugëment,
                      
                        To wichë day ye schul a-bydë thus,
                      
                        And preisë god with al youre hool entent,
                      
                        While þat youre bodi, be assignëment
                        Line 33 
                      
                        Of god, is turned to correpcïoun,
                      
                        And fully schal haue hire purgacioun.
                        Line 35

(6)

                        For Reasoun [sayeth] wele, & god-is lawe,
                        Line 36 
                      
                        That he þat hath don alle his besynesse
                      
                        (ffor god-is will) youre lustës to withdrawe—
                      
                        Encombryng yow with muche vnthryftynesse,—
                      
                        That from þat fowle and wofull wrechidnesse
                        Line 40 
                      
                        I-clensid be, and alle renewyd clene
                      
                        That manere weye, youre flesch is, þat I mene.
                        Line 42

(7)

                        So at the last[ë] day thei schal a-ryse,
                        Line 43 
                      
                        And come be-fore that Iugë souereyn,
                      
                        To yow conioyned in a wondere wise
                      
                        In a good áccorde withowt ony peyne,
                      
                        And in this ioye eternally remayne. [folio 31] 
                        Line 47 
                      
                        What ioye is here, ye schul assaye & see,
                      
                        Honured be the hey[ë] maieste!

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Hoccleve's works. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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Pages

(5) The aungelys song within. [folio 30]

description Page xxxv

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