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¶ Hand and armys / with this discrecioun,
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Wher-so man hauë / force or Febilnesse,
Trewly to meene / in his affeccïoun,
For fraude or favour / to folwe rihtwisnesse,
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Entrailes inward / devocioun with meeknesse
Passyng Pigmalioun ['Pigmalioun' stands for one measure.] / which graued his ymáge,
Prayd to Venus / of lovers / cheef goddesse,
To graunt it lyff / and quyknesse of languáge.
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¶ Of hool entent / pray we to Crist ihesu
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To quyke a figure / in our conscïence:
Reson as hed / with membris of vertu
A-forn rehersyd / breefly in sentence,
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Vndir support / of his magnificence.
Crist so lyst governe / our wordly pilgrymáge
Tween vice and vertu / to sette a difference,
To his plesaunce / to vttren our languáge. [[The next Balade of Lydgate's against false Bakers and Millers is put in to fill the blank page at the back of this, tho' it's only a fragment. It happens to be the last leaf of this Harl. MS. 2255, and so, just handy.]]
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