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 ...

                                
                                  yiff yt be nat lefful to me, ffor my grete synnes, ffor to
                                
                                  Tasten and to Etyn off thyn hooly plentevous ffruyt,
                                
                                  yett suffre, blyssed lady, that at the leste that I may
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                                  Saltem ibi ffenum vt bos Comedam. / Haue my pasture
                                
                                  ther with Rude Oxys, and walkyn as a man deiect
                                
                                  with Nabugodonoser / Ther, amonge thys wylde beestys,
                                
                                  to han my habitacion, to take ther party off the Remys|
                                
                                  saylles leffte off hem that be gostly and Spyrytual
                                
                                  Repast, to my Sowle helpe // ffor trewly, lady, and
                                
                                  thow lyst pacyently to suffre me thus, why shulde
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                                  nat my Sowle be Comfortyd? why shulde I thanne
                                
                                  be dysespeyred off thy grace // why shulde my wofull
                                
                                  Eyen be dyrked with longe abydynge in the salte
                                
                                  Terys off bytternesse // ffor Certys, thouh the mul|
                                
                                  tytude off my Synnes passe in noumbre the Sotyl
                                
                                  smale Sandys and gravell off the See, And though
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                                  I were nat worthy, ffor my wykkydnessys, to lyfften
                                
                                  vp myn Eyen towarde the bryghte hevene, yett, nat|
                                
                                  with-standyng alle this // 'Te tamen, a ffacie ffuroris
                                
                                  Domini, Refugium habeo // I have the, my Synguler
                                
                                  Refuge, ffor the fface of the woodnesse off my Lorde
                                
                                  God' // & yiff that oure fferme ffader  [Stowe folio 297a] Adam, affter
                                
                                  hys grete Offence, hadde had swych a shadewyng place
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                                  to have tournyd vn-to, ffor to haue hydde hys nakyd|
                                
                                  nesse, I suppose the lorde hadde nat seyde vn-to hym /
                                
                                  'Adam, vbi Es? Adam, wher Artow?' // But the goode
                                
                                  lorde, seyng so mych peple perysshe ffor the Synne off
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                                  the seyde Adam, ordeygned thè to ben a Synguler
                                
                                  Mene ffor mannys saluacion, off Entent, that who-so|
                                
                                  euere ffledde vn-to the ffor helpe and ffor Reffuge,
                                
                                  shulde nat perysshen, But Restyn vnder the Shadwe
                                
                                  off thy proteccion, to be Conservyd ffro dampnacion
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                                  vnder the large off thy Charyte // Seyynge vnto thè,
                                
                                  thylke wordys that be wretyn In ysaye / the prophete,
                                
                                  xvjo Capitulo: "Absconde fugientes, & vagos ne prodas;
                                
                                  habitabunt apud te profugi mei, & cetera / Esto Lati|
                                
                                  bulum eorum a Facie vastatoris" // This to seyne, "O
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                                  thow blyssed Lady, hyde hem that fflen vnto thè ffor
                                
                                  helpe, and they that be vagabonde, dys[c]oure hem nat,
                                
                                  ffor synfull ffolkys that be ffugytyff shalle ffleen vn-to

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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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