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 ...

                                
                                  ffor socour and helpe // And though thow be ordeyned
                                
                                  ffor a Common Reffuge vnto alle synners / yitt enclyne
                                
                                  the in especyal to be myn /. 'Myn': why so? Myn,
                                
                                  Trewly / 'Quia tibi Soli peccaui, & malum Coram te
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                                  ffeci / ffor only vnto the I ha synnyd and tresspassed,
                                
                                  And to-ffore thyn Eyen Done fful Outragous Offencys' //
                                
                                  Lady, artow my pocessioun, sythen yt stant so, that
                                
                                  fful ofte sythe, thurgh ffals ffauour off prosperyte and
                                
                                  transytorye off this wrechched worlde, I ha fforgetyn
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                                  the // Artow or shaltow be myn verrey herytage, sythen
                                
                                  I, woful wrechch, neuere ne Dydd no Dygne servyse
                                
                                  vnto the / Or  [Stowe folio 290a] Artow yoven to me syngulerly in pro|
                                
                                  pyrte? God dyffende But I cleyme in-to my poces|
                                
                                  sioun and in-to my propyr herytage // ffor-as-much as I
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                                  have euere knowen thé Custommably to haue mercy
                                
                                  vp-on wrechches; and I am fful wel expert, and ha
                                
                                  fful experyence off thy benygne goodnesse, which, in
                                
                                  all mescheff and in all my nedys, I haue euere ffounde
                                
                                  redy vn-to me // wher-off, blyssede lady, with alle my
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                                  herte I thanke the // And ffor as much as thow hast,
                                
                                  nat only at oone tyme, but at alle tymes, be Reffuyt
                                
                                  and synguler Reffuge vnto me / 'Ideo te semper ven|
                                
                                  dico esse meum: Therffore euere in especyal I chalenge
                                
                                  the to be myn.' 'Vnde hoc michi? wheroff, or by
                                
                                  what Tytle, komyth this vn-to me, Or off what Doctour,
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                                  Or of what Mayster, have I lernyd to Chalenge so hih a
                                
                                  Tresour?' 'Certe, a Tribulacione / Certys, off Tribula|
                                
                                  cion' / ffor, trewly I dar wel seyn in this caas, that
                                
                                  Tribulacion was my Maystresse and my Techere; and
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                                  off hyr I lerned this lessoun, that with-outen aboode or
                                
                                  any taryyng to haue my Resort ffor Socour vn-to the,
                                
                                  off Entent that thow shuldest syngulerly be my sup|
                                
                                  porte and Reffuge // But how may yt be in any wyse
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                                  that this shulde longen or apertenen vnto Trybula|
                                
                                  cion // Or what konnyng hat Trybulacion, or may in
                                
                                  eny wyse techen a Man the weye off Elthe? Syth hyr
                                
                                  Condicion ys rather to brynge a man in-to Drerynesse;
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                                  and to Casten hym in-to the ffroward pathys off dyses|
                                
                                  peyr and desperacion. Trewly, by clere Consyderacion
                                
                                  off dyuers Respectys,  [Stowe folio 290b] she techeth both the Ton and

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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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