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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 ...

mencion, Thow shedyst and powryst doun the Oylle off thy Mercy vp-on synnerys / And off ffull yore agone, that hath be thyn vsage and thy Custoom / Recorde I take off Theophilus, [See Migne, vol. 182, p. 1143/1.] which, whan he was ffallyn in-to 16613 the horryble ffoule pytt off Desperacion, and denyed thy blyssed Sonne Ihesu Crist, doynge homage to the, Thow, blyssed Mayde, Thow benygne Lady, Thow gloryous quene off pytee and off mercy, fforsoke hym nat whan he Resorted Ageyn vn-to the, but mercyably delyuer| edest hym ffrom the bondys off the ffende, brekyng 16619 and Annullyng the Recorde, wretyn with his owne hande, Restorynge hym to grace and to mercy ageyn. By swych wyndowes and by swych ffenestrall / I, stondynge behynde vnder the wall off my synnes, and 16623 looke and beholde how benygne and how Mercyfull at thow Art // [Stowe folio 293b] ffor who yitt euere callyd vn-to the / Or what man euere putte his trust or his fulle hope hertly in the, and was defraudyd off hys vertuous desyr? // Whan I Remembre and Consydre all thes thynges, 16628 And so Clerly at the Eye how thow helpyst al hem that ben oppressyd, and Reconcylest ageyn to grace alle hem that ben dysespeyred / And generally art socour and helpe to alle synnerys, Ther-ffor I, wofull 16632 Wrechche lefft, vp and dresse the Inward Eye off myn herte vn-to the / ffor hooly and Enterly in the I putte myn hope stable and ffyx, perpetuelly to per| seueryn and abyden, Concludyng thus withe the Pro| phete / 'Tu es spes mea & porcio mea in terra 16637 viuencium // Thow, blyssed lady, art myn only hope, my part and my porcion in the londe of euery-lastynge lyff' // ffor, lady, whan I am ffalle in any Trybulacion, walke and goo Rounde aboute the Erthe, and seke 16641 affter the helpe off men, an[d] kan nowher nōōn ffynden but Only in the // Than may I wel ben aknowen, and Confesse me, and [MS. 'and and'] seyn / 'Tu es porcio mea: Thow allone, Lady, art my part and my porcion,' ffor thow 16645 Dystynctly, alle other excludyd, art, were, and shalt ben the Outer and the ffulle hope off my soule. And ther-ffor I may Covenably applye and seyn vnto thé
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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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