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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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Duodecimum Gaudium.

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And for that Ioye alle Ioyes dothe precelle,
Whyche þoue haddeste, pryncesse of moste renoun!
Vppon that daye playnly for to telle
Of his vpe-Ryste and Rysereccyone,
As he that was of Iuda þe lyone,
O gloryeuse ladye! pray hym in humble wyse
From synfull lyff by grace I may aryse.
Aue Maria.