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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 ...

sentence off the domys Man // And her-vp-ōn be| gynest to ffallyn in-to the dyrke pytte off Drerynesse, vp-on the wofull swolwh off Dysespeyr and Desper| acioun / 'Cogita Mariam / Leffte vp thyn herte, and 16294 thenke vp-on Marye' // In alle pereylles, in alle Anguysshes, In alle dotows thynges, Thynke and calle vnto Marye // ffor alle the whyle thow ffolwest vp-on that blysfull Lady, thow mayst nat goon out off 16298 thy weye; whyls thow prayest to hyre, thow mayst nat ffalle in despeyr // whiles at thow thenkyst hertly vp| on hyre, thow mayst nat Erre // And whiles that she, with hyr Mercyable hande holdeth the vp, thow mayst nat falle // And Whiles that she, with the 16303 benygne gracious shelde [Stowe folio 288a] Off hyr proteccion, dyffendeth the / yt nedeth the nat to drede thyn Enmyes // And whiles that she ys thy gracious guyde in thy peryllous pylgrymmage off this mortal lyff, thow mayst nat wexe wery // ffor, thurgh hyr Mercyable Conveyynge, thow 16308 shalt arryven vp at the Agreable havene off euere-last| ynge lyff [[End of St. Bernard]] // Therffore, whan that any Tribulacion put vp-on me or assaylleth me, To thé only, and to no mo, I haue my Recours ffor helpe // Whan any adversyte 16312 or wrechchydnesse swe vp-on me, In thé all-only I ffynde refuyt and Refuge // Bot / O, allas! grete mater have I to Compleyne; ffor, but yiff Tribulacion con| streyne, or somme sodeyne aduersyte excyte me and 16316 pooke vp-on me, I kan neuere, off my ffroward dysposi| cioun, haue hertly Recours vnto the // And trewly, ffor thys Cause, I may Iustly and full Covenably take vp-on me the name off a drye stobyll, or off a welkyd leef, 16320 that ys ffalle doun ffrom a tree // ffor, semblably so as a drye stobyl or a ffadyd leef ffalle to the Erth, and neuere ys reysed vp ageyn to the braunche he kam ffro // Right so I, the most wrechchyd Wyght off alle 16324 synners, and most dyffadyd and wylked with synne, nat-with-stondyng my grete vnhappy Infortunye which that I lye defoulyd Inne / yitt kan I neuere, tyl I be mevyd with somme anguyssh or aduersyte // O blysfull 16328 lady, I ffle vnto thé; dyvert my passage vn-to the Soc| ourable tent off thy grace // But, O, allas! as god
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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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