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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Terciumdecium Gaudium.
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O hevenly qwene! of mercy condescendeFor þilke Ioye to here myne orysoun,
Þowe haddeste þat day, whanne he did ascende
Vp to that high hevenly mansyoun;
Pray hym for grace and supportacioun,
Affter his tracys þat I my lyffe may lede
To his plesaunce, atweene hope, love, and drede.
Aue Marya.
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And of pryncesses, O þow moste gracyous!& most accepted in þe lordes sight
For þylke Ioye in Erthe moste famous
Þow haddeste þat day, whan þe Holy Gooste alight
Downe from abowe, þe sterre clere and bryght;
For þylke grace þat day dede on the shyne,
With lyght of verteue myne herte þowe enlumyne.
Aue Marya.
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