The pilgrimage of the life of man, English by John Lydgate, A. D. 1426, from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville, A. D. 1330, 1335. The text ed. by F. J. Furnivall ... With introduction, notes, glossary and indexes by Katharine B. Locock ...

'In touch & syhtë bothë two, Also in tast & in smellynge Lych bred & wyn Resemb[e]lynge, Line 5248 Outward, as by ápparence; Trustë shortly in sentence, Thy fowrë wyttys (lerne of me) ffynally deceyved be; Line 5252 Off verray foly they be blent, That they ha noon Entendëment, The trouthë trewly to conceyve; Swych dyrknesse hem doth deceyve, Line 5256 That the offyce of hem echon Ys from hem [[hem St., hym C.]] fourë clenë agon, ffor lak, pleynly, of knowelychyng.
'But the fyffthe wyt off heryng— Line 5260 Wych mor clerly in sentence Haueth full intelligence— He techyth the wyttys euerychon [Stowe folio 96a] Evydently what they shal don,— Line 5264 The tast, the touch, & ek the syht, Smellyng also (off verray ryht,) Whan they ha lost ther knowelychyng, The ffyffthe, that callyd ys Heryng, Line 5268 Aparceved hath so wel, That he knoweth euerydel In thys matere what shal be don. And thys was fyguryd longe a-gon,— Line 5272 Red the Byble, yiff ye kan,— In Ysaak, that oldë man, [folio 79a] Whan Esau (to hys entente,) In-to the feld on huntyng wente, Line 5276 And hys labour spente in veyn. ffor longe or that he kam [[kome St.]] ageyn, Iacob verrayly in dede, Claddë [[Cladde St., Clad C.]] in Esáwys wede, Line 5280 With her [[heer St. (hair)]] vp-on hys hondys layd (As hys moder hadde hym sayd,) To Ysaak heldë [[helde St., held C.]] hys passage, And to hym brouhtë the potage Line 5284 In ryht gret hast, (as he was tauht,)
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The pilgrimage of the life of man, English by John Lydgate, A. D. 1426, from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville, A. D. 1330, 1335. The text ed. by F. J. Furnivall ... With introduction, notes, glossary and indexes by Katharine B. Locock ...
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Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited,
1899-1904.

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