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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 ...

yt hadde nat be necessarye thè to haue Chylded oure savyour and Redemptour, 'Vt quid enim nescium pec| cata pro peccatoribus pareres, si deesset qui peccasset / Vt quid ffieris, mater Saluatoris, si nulla esset Indi| 16886 gencia salutis' / 'O blyssed lady, why or wher-ffore shuldestow haue Chylded and brought fforth hym ffor Remedye Off Synnerys, which neuere knewe what synne was, yiff ther neuere hadde be nōōn that hadd synned to-fforne // Or to what ffyn sholdestow han ben Moder off the Savyour, yiff ther hadde be nōōn 16892 Indygence off savacion?' And thes wordys off Seynt Awstyn, lady, I may Right well seyn vn-to the // ffor sythen Synnerys were Cause and Occasyoun off thyn honour and off thy Magnyffycence, by cause only off ther grete synnes, yt semyth vn-to me, sythen that I am a Successour off hem, Contynuynge ffro day to day 16898 in Synne, That I, amonge alle other Synnerys, may Rightffully Cleymen to fflen to the ffor helpe and ffor Reffuyt // And that thow, in Recompensacion off the grete benefetys which thow hast Receyved ffor Synnerys, wylt nat to me, that am a Synner, denye the Entre / Sythyn thow, lady, off verray Right art bounden to be 16904 Reffuge vnto Synnerys / 'Sed, quomodo obligata // But how, lady, artow bounden?' Artow nat more bounden off Equyte to Righfull men than to Synnerys // ffor| soth thow art bounde to bothe; [Stowe folio 298b] ffor to Rightfull Men thow art bounden by Love, And to Synfull Men thow art bounde by thyn Offyce // ffor a leche hath in hous| 16910 holde with hym, hem that he loveth / and he hath besyde also, woundyd and seke men, whom that he Recureth and maketh hool / ffor wher-to shulde Oon bere the name off a leche, but yiff he wolde helyn men off ther maladyes // Or wherto shuldestow be callyd 16915 the Moder off Mercy / Or wher-to shuldestow ha be Chosen to be the Moder Off god, yiff thow all-only shuldest loven goode Men and Rightffull, And with alle this shuldest nat done nor shewyn no mercy vnto 16919 Synnerys / Trewly thow art holden to loven and to Cherysshen hem that be Rightfull, And to haue mercy on hem that be Synffull // And that shewyth fful well
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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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