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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52. A TRETISE FOR LAUANDRES.
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Yee maisteresses myne, and clenly chamberys,That haue to doe with my Ladis atyere
Atendythe ay as honest officers,
Sith youre fee, youre wages, and youre hyre
Is duly paide, than sette youre desyre
How to doo youre godely obseruaunce,
Wayt all be well & that may you avaunce.
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Loke well youre lawne, youre homple, & youre LakePlesaunce, Reyns, & eke the fin Champeyn,
Ye washe cleyn fro mole, and spottes blake,
That wyn, nor oyle, nor yit non inke distyen
Keuerchif or cloth aboute youre souerayn.
Bot wasshe hem clene, & yf ye lust to lere,
How ye schall doo thes verses techen here.
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Vinum lacte lava oleumque licore fabarumIncaustum vino cetera mundat aqua.
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Of wyn away the moles may ye wesshe,In mylk whyt; the fletyng oyly spott
Wyth lye of beenes make hit clene & fresshe.
Wasshe with wyn the feruent inkes blot,
All oder thynges clensed well, ye wot,
Wyth water cler, is purged & made clene,
But thes thre clense, wyn, mylkes, and beene.
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