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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 ...

was a necessarye Maystresse vn-to me, lych vnto a pro| celle which dryveth all sodeynly a Shyppe vn-to goode 16996 aryvaylle. ¶ And necessarye ys also thylke sharpe prykke, that bryngeth hym that Erreth in his passage, ageyn to the Right wey. ¶ And wel-full and blyssed be tho betynges and Skowrynges, that Compellyn a Chylde to declyne ffrom his trespacys and his Errours. And ther-ffore, blyssed lady, rather than I shulde be 17002 Rekkeles to Resorte vnto the, lat me Rather, vnder thy proteccion, ffele somme party Off Trybulacion. ¶ And, benygne lady, I beleue [Stowe folio 300b] Verrayly, that, by the ordyn| aunce off thy blyssed Sonne, Was suffryd and ordeyned as a yerde in a Maystres hande to Restreyne neclygent Children ffrom her Wauntonesse and ther trwandyse, 17008 and to compellyn hem mekely to obeye the doctryne and dyscyplyne off ther Mayster. ¶ And thus, lady, I that am Slowh, Neclygent, and ffroward in alle vertu| ous werkys, My Maystresse Trybulacion, with hyre yerde off Dyscyplyne and of Castygacion, She hath taught me to komme to the in my grete nede, ffor to ffynde in thy grete Mercy, Refuge and Consolacion. 17015 ¶ So that thow mayst covenably seyn to me the wordys wretyn in the Sawter book / "In Tribulacione inuocasti me / In Trybulacion euere thow callyst vn-to me." ¶ And Sothely, lady, I conffesse me, and am wel aknowe, that yt ys So; Besechyng fful mekely vn-to the, with alle myn hoole herte, only off mercy and off 17021 pytye, that thow lyst to seyn vnto me, and gracyously to Acomplysshe and ffulfyllen in me, thy pore servaunt, the Resydue in effect, that ffolweth in the same vers / "liberaui te & exaudiui te in Abscondito tempestatis / I ha delyuered the, and I have herde the in the dyrke 17026 trouble off the Tempest that Assaylled the." ¶ Now, goode blyssed lady, do now so to thy pore seruaunt, and Releve hym, off thy mercy, in the Tempest off this grete nede, and graunte hym off Synnes Remyssioun, to be vn-to hym Refuyt and Reffuge in euery Trybu| 17031 lacion / Prestante Vnigenito [Stowe folio 301a] Tuo, qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen. [Blank in MS. for an Illumination.]
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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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