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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¶ A comendacion of Chaucers. Capitulo. xxxiiii. (Book 34)

ANd eke my maister Chaucers nowe is gre¦ue The noble rethore / Poete of Britaine That worthy was / the laurer to haue Of Poetrie / and the palme attayne That made firste / to distille and rayne The golde dewe dropes / of speche & eloquence In to our tonge / thrugh his excellence.
¶ And fonde the floures / firste of rethorike Our rude speche / onely to enlumine That in our tonge / was neuer none hym lyke For as the sonne / dothe in heuen shyne In mydday spere / downe to vs by lyne In whose presence / no sterre may appere Right so his dyttes / withouten any pere?
¶ Euery makinge / with his light distayne In sothfastnes / who so taketh hede Wherfore no wonder / though myne herte playne Upon his deth / and for sorowe blede For want of hym / nowe in my greate nede That sholde alas / conueye and directe And with his supporte / amende and correcte.
¶ The wronge traces / of my rude penne There as I erre / and go not lyne right But that for he / ne may me na knne I can nomore / but with all my might

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With all myne herte / & myne inwarde sight Prayeth for hym / that nowe lyeth in cheste To god aboue / to gyue his soule good reste.
¶ And as I can / forthe I will procede Sithen of his helpe / there may no socour be And though my penne / be quakinge ay for drede Nether to Clyo / ne to Calyope Me liste not call for to helpe me Ne to no muse / my poyncell for to gye But leue all this / and saye vnto Marie.
¶ O clere Castell / and the chaste Toure Of the holy ghoste / mother and virgine Be thou my helpe / conceyle and socoure And let the stremes / of thy mercy shyne In to my breste / this thyrde boke to fyne That thorowe thy supporte / and benigne grace It to parforme / I may haue lyfe and space.
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