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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 ...

vpon, in Conclusioun, I drede hys manacys nor hys Thretys neueradel / And sothly, blyssed lady, I may wel seyn that thou art 'Reffugium,' Which ys to seyne, a fflyght off hem that be gylty / ffor-as-much as, nat only I, but alle tho that be gylty, fflen vnto the 16495 ffor helpe / Thanne, yiff that Desperacion Convyct and confus with, & Trybulacoun axe me by what Mene I may knowe Thylke souereyn Reffuge and Reffuyt off alle that be gylty, or off whom I was taught, or who 16499 was my ledere or my guyde to kome to thylke souereyn Reffuge / I wylle answere and [seyn] 'A Tribulacione' / ffor Trybulacion (as I have sayd to-fforne) was my Maystresse and my guyde, and ys Cheff leder and governeresse Off my passage / And whan I was slowh 16504 in my passage, with hyr vexacion she Constreyned me to fflen to the ffrom hyr fface / Semblably as a yonge Chylde, whan he hath espyed the wolff, naturelly ffleth vn-to hys Moder, Or as a Cely Dowe, whan she hath espyed the Sparawk, ffleth hom to hyr Colverhows, Evene [Stowe folio 291b] So, blyssed lady, ffrom the dredfull fface of Trybulacion / to thé that art Conforteresse off alle Sowles that be seke, I take my fflyght / And therfore I 16512 may euere Recorde my Lessoun, and say, as I ffirst sayde, 'Tu es Refugium meum a Tribulacione' / In the which wordes I do tweyne thynges / ffirst, I cleyme off Right that thow art verrayly she in whom I truste to 16516 ffynde Comfort in alle adversyte, whan I sey / 'Tu es Refugium meum' /. Secondely, I am aknowe Expresly ffro whom that I ffle, whan I say / 'A Tribulacione' / Thanne, so as I verrayly afferme that thow art only She in whom I truste ffully to ffynde Comforte Inne /. Goode, blyssede Lady, off thy mercyable grace, dysdeyne 16522 nat to ben 'Refugium meum In Tribulacione' / And nat myn only hope, but my fowrfolde hope; ffor in ffoure manere wyse I truste to ffynde in thé Comfort and Consolacion // ffor who ys the verray hope off hertes that ben oppressed, I parceyve Clerly at the Eye, and sey 'Tu' / ffor whan the wrechchyd werlde shall 16528 drawe to an ende, and alle shall ffayle, than thow shalt nat ffayle // ffor thanne shall synfull sowles fflen to be
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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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