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 ...

'Vyces putte in [[To putte vices / in alle [Stowe folio 141b] ]] subieccïoun, That vertu ha [[ha his St.]] domynacïoun The fflesshë felly to chastyse, Yiff yt rebelle in any wyse Line 7880 To be to sturdy or to bold, As seyn Benyth [[Benett St.]] dyde off old, Gyrt with the swerd off Ryghtwysnesse, Whan he dyde hys flessh oppresse Line 7884 As a myghty champyoun: With-stondyng hys temptacïoun. As regent and gouernour, He made the spyryt Emperour, Line 7888 Smot the flessh, by gret duresse, With the swerd off Ryhtwysnesse; Punysshede hym so cruelly, With-outë respyt or mercy, Line 7892 Almost euene to the deth, In poynt to yeldyn vp the breth; Tyl he, lyk a manly man, With thys swerd the laurer waan. Line 7896 Hys fflesshe rebél, he gan to daunte, And his myght vp-on him haunte, [[C. leaves out this line.]] Ther yt was inobedyent. To ben at hys comaundement, Line 7900 So lowly to hym, & so mek.
'The wychë [[whiche St., wych C.]] swerd thow shalt bern ek [prose cap cxxiii] On pylgrymage, wher thow shalt gon, Ageyn thyn Enmyes euerychon, Line 7904 Thy prevy enmyes (thus I mene,) Hard and greuous to sustene; ffor ther be noon so peryllous, So dredful nor so dangerous, Line 7908 As ben thylke Enmyes in secre, [folio 124b] [Stowe folio 142a] Wych off thy sylff ycausyd be, And grucche ageyn thé nyh [[nygh St., nyght C.]] & ferre, With the Spyryt to holde a werre. Line 7912
'But or that thow thys baret ffyne, And or that froward wyl enclyne, Thyn hertë makë to assente, Loke thow chaungë thyn entente, Line 7916
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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,
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