This boke is compyled by Dan Iohn Lydgate monke of Burye, at the excitacion [and] styrynge of the noble and victorious prynce, Kynge Henry the fyfthe, i[n] the honoure glorie [and] reuerence of the byrthe of our moste blessed Lady, mayde, wyfe, [and] mother of our lorde Iesu Christe, chapitred as foloweth by this table
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This boke is compyled by Dan Iohn Lydgate monke of Burye, at the excitacion [and] styrynge of the noble and victorious prynce, Kynge Henry the fyfthe, i[n] the honoure glorie [and] reuerence of the byrthe of our moste blessed Lady, mayde, wyfe, [and] mother of our lorde Iesu Christe, chapitred as foloweth by this table
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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[Imprynted at London :: In the Fletestrete, by me Robert Redman, dwellynge in saynt Dunstones parysshe, next ye churche,
In the yere of our lorde god. MCCCCC.XXXI. [1531] The fyrste daye of the moneth of Nouembre]
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Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint.
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"This boke is compyled by Dan Iohn Lydgate monke of Burye, at the excitacion [and] styrynge of the noble and victorious prynce, Kynge Henry the fyfthe, i[n] the honoure glorie [and] reuerence of the byrthe of our moste blessed Lady, mayde, wyfe, [and] mother of our lorde Iesu Christe, chapitred as foloweth by this table." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06560.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2025.
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¶ Howe our Lady prayed to god to shewe her virginite. Capitulo. xxxii. (Book 32)
OSothfast lorde / that hast the knowlechyngeOf euery thynge / thorowe thy mightAnd art so truwe / and so iuste a kyngTo hygh and lowe / thou wilt do rightAnd nothing may be shrouded fro thy sightThorowe none engyne / ne thy face asterteBut sothtastly knowest euery herte.
¶ So that no wight / fade may ne fayneTofore the eye / of thy sapienceNowe let thy grace / downe fro heuen trayneClerely in dede / and nat by apparenceTo shewe in me / yf there be offenceOf any gylte / myne auowe to appecheTo the I praye / so thy light to reche.
¶ That it be couthe / here all openlyTo wete in soth / whether I in chastiteHaue ledde my lyfe as faythfullyLyke as thou knowest / for the loue of theAnd if I haue my virginite
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Concerned hole / this is myne orysonMake openly a demonstracian.
¶ And with that worde / the drinke she dyd atasteAnd went her course / aboute the AultreAnd all the people gan to gasen fasteIf any signe / dyd in her appereOther in colour / countenaunce or chereBut all for nought / playnly as I toldeThe more on her / they loken and beholde.
¶ The more she was in her sight fayreAnd lyke as Phebus / in Ioly grene mayeWhan she hath chased / the derke misty ayreShineth more clere / the bright Somers dayeWhan thylke vapours / ben driuen clere awayeRight so Ioseph / and also MarieSo fresshe were / in euery wightes eye.
¶ That to beholde / they thought it dyd hē goodeThe longe daye in her opynionFor in her face / alwaye was the bloodeWithout poling / or any drawing downeAnd alwaye more fayre of inspeccionOf whiche thinge / the people gan meruayleAnd for astoned / thoughten her wittes fayle.
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