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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 ...

veryable thurgh Changynge, thow Abydest stable and stedfaste with-out Mutabylyte / euere in Oon // And that shewed fful wel in the passioun off thy blyssed Sonne // ffor whan alle his discyples ffledde a-way, Thow, as a ffyx Sterre, stoode euere stable In the ffyrmament off the ffeyth to-ffore the Croos. Thy 16690 Stabylnesse was shewed fful wel also in the Concepcion off thy blyssed sonne, That, nat with-stondyng the promys and the beheste off the Aungel, thow stoode euere Stable, and nat Chaungest thyn holy purpos off thy vyrgynyte // Thy grete stabylnesse ys also ffonden wel ffro day to day in the grete Reffuyt and Reffuge 16696 that thow dost to alle synful men, havyng mercy vp-on hem euere in ther mescheff whan they ha nede; and in this stant moste in euery Trybulacion the synguler Consolation and Comfort that I have in my Sowle / 16700 ffor trewly, blyssed lady, yiff thow were vnstable and varyant as other Creatures ben, I koude vp-on no syde ffynden Comfort in myn hert // why so? // ffor than were ther noone other that myght delyuere me out off the trowble ffloodys off the see off thys Mortal lyff / ffor I stoode pleynly vp-on the wrak, myd off the 16706 ffelle Rage ffloodys off this dredfull See, lyk to ha be perysshed, nadde ben that thy Mercyable hande hadde ben porrect to me-ward // And therfore, [Stowe folio 295a] O thow blyssed lady, I make my prayer and myn Inuoccacion vn-to the, to bene a Mene of Mercy to brynge me to the holsomme hauene off euery-lastyng lyff, Seyyng to thé thes wordes that her swen / Cum beato Petro / 'Si 16713 tu es, Iube me venire ad te super aquas' / 'Si tu es' / that ys fforto seyn, 'ffor thow art, and neuere shalt Cessyn ffor to ben, commande me // O thow blyssed Mayde, which art the port and the havene off Elthe 16717 vnto wrechches, me stondyng vp-on the watrys, that ys to seyn, mydd off Trybulacions in this worlde, to ouerekomen hem, and So to kome vn-to the' // ffor, Certys, lady, yiff so be that thow exclude my prayer ffro thyn Erys, off alle wrechches I am the moste 16722 wrechchyd; and yiff my synnes fforbarre me, that I be nat herde demyng, also that ffor my grete offencys, I
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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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