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 ...

                                
                                  'Than that thyng wych ys with-Inne.
                                
                                  And yiff I made to your entent,
                                
                                  By ápparence off Argument,
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                                  As thus, that I woldë preve, [Stowe folio 101a] 
                                
                                  (ffor to makë folk be-leve,)
                                
                                  That a paleys huge & large,
                                
                                  Or A menstre off gret [[gre St.]]  charge,
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                                  That yt wer but A Turneys smal.
                                
                                  Clerkys wolde (in especyal)
                                
                                  Seyn yt wer but mekerye, [[Mokerye St.]] 
                                
                                  Or A maner sophystrye,
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                                  Shewyd, as yt wer for game;
                                
                                  And ye your sylff ha do the same. [prose cap lxxvii] 
                                
                                  (Yiff ye lyst to be avysed,)
                                
                                  In thys bred wych ys desguysed;
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                                  ffor the foode & the pasture,
                                
                                  That ys withinne (as ye assure,)
                                
                                  Gyveth ful repast spyrytual
                                
                                  To al the world in general,
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                                  So ffer the vertu doth extende;
                                
                                  And yet, that thyng to comprehende,
                                
                                  Al the erthë, in no wyse,
                                
                                  Nor the hevene, mowh nat suffyse,
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                                  That thyng ye (in especyal)
                                
                                  Han closyd in a cloystre smal,
                                
                                  Who kan mesure yt, or compasse,
                                
                                  And shet yt in a lytel space?
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                                  And swych .xiiij.e (on see or land)
                                
                                  I myghte wel holden in myn hand!
                                
                                  I trowe your sylff kan nat sey nay;
                                
                                  And for no fauour I ne may
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                                  Suffre no lenger (in certeyn,)
                                
                                  But that I mustë yow with-seyn,
                                
                                  And declare, wher as ye ffaylle, [folio 83b]  [Stowe folio 101b]  [[C. & St.]] 
                                
                                  ( [Camb. MS. reads: This may j nouht wel suffre, ne resoun may not weel preeve it, ne it is not riht gret wunder thouh Nature merveile hire, p. 45.]  And yt ys no grete merveylle, [[C. & St.]] 
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                                  Who-so lyst goode heed to take) [[C. & St.]] 
                                
                                  Thogh naturë dyde awake, [[C. & St.]]

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DE GUILLEVILLE'S PILGRIMAGE OF THE LIFE OF MAN (englisht by Lydgate in 1426, from the 2nd recension of De Guille|ville's Pèlerinage de vie humaine, A. D. 1355, pr. about 1500).

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent.
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited,; 1899-1904.

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