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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 tother // But she taught me that I shulde fflen vnto the; and she mevede me also that I shulde dyses| peyre // But, ffor I sawh Elthe in the ton, and grete distourbaunce an[d] trouble in the tother, Therffore, in Eschwyng off dyspeyr, I chees, off hool herte, to fflen 16455 to the ffor sokour and helpe // ffor, ffleyng to the, ys savacion; & to dyspeyr / ys deth with-oute Remyssioun. Thanne, ffrom hennys fforward, yiff my Maystresse Trybulacion caste hyre to ben but a Stepmoder off myn Elthe and my savacion, and, sternely Rebukynge and 16460 vndernemynge me / Mynystre vnto me any mater off dysespeyr, To dresse me in-to the dyrke wey of drery| nesse, I shall answere vn-to hyre in my dyffense, and seyn as I ffirst sayd, 'Tu es Refugium meum a Tribu| lacione' // And yiff that Tribulacion replye ageyns me, 16465 and be bolde or hardy to axe me why I dyspeyre nat, or wher myn hope Shulde ben, Or who yt ys that may be myn helpe in this caas, or my socour in eny wyse, I shal boldly answere ageyn, and seyn // O blyssed 16469 lady, 'That yt ys only Thow.' And yff he contynue in hys malys, and labour off ffrowardnesse, to subuerten myn hope, and sey 'vnto what ende abydestow / Thow art kome to late, Tempus miserendi preterijt / Tyme off mercy ys ypassyd / Quia maior est Iniquitas tua quam 16474 vt veniam conseruaris // ffor thy wykkednesse ys more than thow mayst ha mercy off,' I shall boldely yive answere by O syllable, and seyn 'Quia Es / ffor thow / art,' that ys to seyne, thow abydest ffyx and stable / 16478 [Stowe folio 291a] Euer in Oon, with-outen Ende, Redy to do Mercy to alle that Requeren the // Thane, yiff he, Confus off myn Answere, in Thretyng wyse Replye ageyn me, and say thes wordes that her Sue / 'Al be yt so that the blyssed Mayde be thy Synguler hope and thy ffull Trust, & 16483 euere Endelessly ys redy to do mercy / yitt truste me wel, ffor my part, wher-so-euere that thow be, Or to what party that thow ffle, I shall pursue the'; Than, nat-with-standyng the trouble off his Inportable malys, I shall answere with a gladde herte ageyn, and seyn, 16488 that 'thow, blyssed Mayde / Es Refugium meum / Art my socour and Reffuyt in euery Trybulacion:' wher|
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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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