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The Minor Poems of John Lydgate

edited from all available mss. with an attempt to establish The Lydgate Canon: By Henry Noble MacCracken

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710

V. Balade de Bone Counseyle.

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[MS. Trin. Col. Camb., R. 3. 20, p 48.]

Yif hit befalle, þat God þee list visyte
With any tourment or aduersytee,
Thank first þe Lord; and, þy-self to qwyte,
Vpon souffraunce and humylytee
Founde þou þy qwarell, whateuer þat it be.
Make þy defence,—and þou shalt haue no losse—
Þe remembraunce of Cryst and of His Crosse.