Lydgate's Fall of Princes Edited by Dr. Henry Bergen ... presented to The Early English Text Society by The Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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[Lenvoy.]
This tragedie sheweth a figure,
A maner ymage & also a liknesse,
How contrari it is onto nature,
Blood onto blood to shewe onkynd[e]nesse.
This woful story can ber [ful] weel witnesse,
All such debatis been, as ye shal fynde,
Hatful to God and contrary onto kynde.
A maner ymage & also a liknesse,
How contrari it is onto nature,
Blood onto blood to shewe onkynd[e]nesse.
This woful story can ber [ful] weel witnesse,
All such debatis been, as ye shal fynde,
Hatful to God and contrary onto kynde.
For there is non mor dreedful auenture,
Than in kynredis to fynde frowardnesse,
Nor no damage mor pereilous to endure,
Than in frenshepes whan there is straungenesse
A maner parti; bexaumple I dar expresse,
To seen the tre debate ageyn the rynde,
To God were hatful and contrary onto kynde.
Than in kynredis to fynde frowardnesse,
Nor no damage mor pereilous to endure,
Than in frenshepes whan there is straungenesse
A maner parti; bexaumple I dar expresse,
To seen the tre debate ageyn the rynde,
To God were hatful and contrary onto kynde.
Eueri beeste and eueri creature
Loueth his semblable, off kyndli riht, I gesse;
And whan on trouthe tweyne hertis assure,
Vndepartid, off verray parfitnesse,
It were a vicious froward cursidnesse,
Ther loue so knet, to losne it or onbynde,
Hatful to God and contrari onto kynde.
Loueth his semblable, off kyndli riht, I gesse;
And whan on trouthe tweyne hertis assure,
Vndepartid, off verray parfitnesse,
It were a vicious froward cursidnesse,
Ther loue so knet, to losne it or onbynde,
Hatful to God and contrari onto kynde.
Pryncis, Pryncessis, doth your besi cure
Fro you tauoide striff, fraude & doubilnesse,
Remembrith you vpon thunhappi eure
Off these too brethre & off ther wrechidnesse,
And off ther bothe malicious wilfulnesse,
And how ther stryues—hath this weel in mynde—
To God was hatful and contrary onto kynde.
Fro you tauoide striff, fraude & doubilnesse,
Remembrith you vpon thunhappi eure
Off these too brethre & off ther wrechidnesse,
And off ther bothe malicious wilfulnesse,
And how ther stryues—hath this weel in mynde—
To God was hatful and contrary onto kynde.
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