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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"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 15, 2024.
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TO god aboue / began thus for to praye
O lorde quod she / with all my full might
Tho whome eche thynge / iustely muste obeye
To the / I than as it is skyll and right
That thou so godely liste / to haue a sight
To my mekenes / though I vnworthy be
And nat disdayne / of thy benignite.
¶ To graunte onely / of thy hygh goodnesse
Me to encrece / in to suche excellence
To be a mayden / and mother in clennesse
To bere thy sonne / and thy sapience
That neuer twynneth / out of thy presence
But in heuen abydeth ay with the
And in erthe / mekely nowe with me.
¶ Lyeth in a stable / of chere moste debonayre
Tofore my face / my ioye and my conforte
Whiche with the lokinge / of his eyen fayre
Is hole my gladnes / and fully my disporte
Sothfaste pleasaunce / and my chefe resorte
My dere sonne / and my lorde also
Tho whome with herte / & all that I can do.
¶ In thanke the lorde / that liggest me beforne
That thou liste chese / to haue affeccion
Of me so mekely / in the erthe to be borne
And fro thy father / to discende a downe
Onely for helpe and saluacion
Of mankynde frely of thy will
My blessed chylde / that so good and styll.
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¶ Liggest nowe here / mekely by sufferaunce
Amyd the beastes / so fayre vpon to se
And haste no wighte / to thyne attendaunce
Lyke thyne estate awaytinge vpon the
Saue that thou haste / so godely chosen me
Of thy grace / vpon the to abyde
I to serue / and thou to be my guyde.
¶ As it is right / Ioseph with vs twayne
To take his parte / what fortune so betyde
Lyke as thou liste / of grace to ordayne
And than anone / right in the sel••e tyde
Ioseph cam me / and stode her besyde
And sodeynly / whan he the chylde doth s••
Full humbly knelinge / on his kne.