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The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man

Englisht by John Lydgate, A.D. 1426, from the French of Guillaume De Deguileville, A.D. 1330, 1355. The Text Edited by F. J. Furnivall ... With Introduction, Notes, Glossary and Indexes by Katharine B. Locock
Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?)

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DE GUILLEVILLE'S PILGRIMAGE OF THE LIFE OF MAN
 
Prolog of the Translator, John Lydgate.
 
Her be-gynneth the prologue of the auctour.
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Here begynneth the pylgrym.
 
The ffyrste verse off the song:
 
The secunde verse:
 
The thryde verse:

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Arystotyles Answerde:

‘Touchyng,’ quod he, ‘that I ha sayd,
So ye be nat evele apayd,
I wyl afferme the same yit,
I wendë trewly to my wyt.
ffor to speke in wordys pleyn,
That O gret Good most souereyn
Sholde (but yiff my wyt be dul,)
Make a thyng ffor to be ful.’
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