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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 ...

the / And therfore I may fful wel conclude, and say // 'Tu es Refugium / meum a Tribulacione / Thow art only my Refuyt in euery Tribulacion.' But ys nat also thy 16373 blyssyd sonne, my sovereyn Lorde, Cryst Ihesu, my Rescus and my Refuyt in euery Tribulacion? Seyth nat Dauid in the sawter book // 'Dominus Firmamen| tum meum, & Refugium meum, & Liberator meus / The lorde ys Firmamentum, my protection, my Refuge and my delyuerer in euery Tribulacion / Vere ipse est 16379 Refugium meum, Deus meus / Saluator meus, & spe| rabo in eum / Sothly he ys my Refuge, my lorde god / my Savyour, And al-only I shall truste and hope in hym' // But, O blyssed lady, ffleyng to the ys nat ellys but a Recours vnto hym; And who that shall haue Recours to hym / mvste ffirste off necessyte passyn 16385 by the; and by thy blyssed medyacoun so atteyne to kome to hym // ffor, as the fforsayde holy Doctour Seynt Bernard recordeth, [[Ed. Paris, 1839, vol. I. Pars altera, Sermo de Aquaeductu, n. 7, p. 2170: a parallel in n. 8, p. 2154. —H. P.]] 'Nichil nos Deus habere voluit quod per tuas manus non transiret' // This to seyn, 'the blyssed lorde / hath so dysposyd the Orden| 16390 aunce off his gracyous gyfftes, that we may ha poces| sioun off no goodnesse but yiff yt passe by the honndes off that blyssed [Stowe folio 289b] Mayden' // And therfore, O thow mercyable lady, that I may haue helpe off hym in euery Tribulacion, ffyrst yt behoveth me that I resorte 16395 vnto the; And therfore I may wel seyn, as I ffirst seyde // 'Tu es Refugium meum A Tribulacione' // And I may wel seyn thys ffirst worde / 'Tu / Thow'; ffor, sauff only Thow, ther ys nōōn other in whom ys hope off vertu and off lyff / And I may say / 'Thow' / ffor Thow art allone, With-out eny other Egal vn-to the, 16401 ffor-as-much as thow art syngulerly blyssyd byfforne alle other // And I may say 'Es,' that thow art devoyde, by a synguler prerogatyff, ffrom alle vnclennesse off synne; and so in perfytnesse off vertu Thow shalt perseveren and abyden / in-to the worldis ende // And thow mayst 16406 be callyd Covenably / 'Refugium,' That is to seyn, 'sovereyne Reffuyt and Refuge'; ffor benygnely Thow Receyvest, Swetly ffostryst, and mercyably closest vnder thy Mantel off Mercy, alle tho that ffleen to the
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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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