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The Complete Works of John Gower

Edited from the manuscripts with introductions, notes and glossaries by G. C. Macaulay
  

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iv.

Parce precor, Criste, populus quo gaudeat iste;
Anglia ne triste subeat, rex summe, resiste.
Corrigo quosque status, fragiles absolue reatus;
Vnde deo gratus vigeat locus iste beatus.