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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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Sextum Gaudium.

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Benygne lady, moest kyndely lodesterre!
For þilke Ioye þowe hadeste in sylence,
Whane three kynges cam to the frome so ferre,
And meekly offred with digne reuerence
Vnto thy sune golde, myrre, and franke-ensence,
Pray to þat lord of mercy mooste entere,
Gracyously taccepte my preyere.
Aue Marye.