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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Lenvoye.
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To alle that caste hem of devociounTo been dilligent, by daily attendaunce,
To serve Mary, pryncesse of moost renoun,
And to his hihnesse for to do plesaunce,
Lat hem empreente in her remembraunce
The ordre heer set, ffirst of hir gladnessys,
And folwyng afftir hir gret heuynessys.
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Which remembryd, as toold is the maneer,In hir worship by humble affeccioun,
Of the heuenly pryncesse, to seyn an hool sawteer,
Lyk as to-forn is maad heer mencioun,
Therwith conceyvyng this compilacioun,
Thouh that it halte in meetre and elloquence,
It is heer write hir for to do reverence.
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Goo litil tretys! and meekly me excuse,To alle tho that shal the seen or reede;
Giff any man thy rudenesse list accuse
Make no diffence, but with lowlyheede
Pray hym refourme, wher as he seeth neede;
To that entent I do the forth directe
Wher thu faylest, that men shal the correcte.
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