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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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Quartum Gaudium.

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Moste good, moste holy, and fayreste on to see!
For þilke Ioye thoue haddeste in thyne hert
Whane Cryste was born in Bedlem þe citee,
Þowe socoure me in all my peynis smert,
And pray thy sune, of mercy to aduert
To-forne his birthe and blessed passyon
When I shall dye, to my Redempcyoun.
Aue Maria.