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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[How adam and Eue for theire inobedience were putout of paradis lyued in sorowe and woo/thei and theire of spryng.]
Whan Iohn Bochas considred hadde & souht
The woful fall off myhti conquerours,
A remembraunce entrid in his thouht,
Reknyng the noumbre off our predecessours,
And first to mynde cam the progenitours
Off al mankynde, ferre Ironne in age,
And toward hym holdyng the passage,
The woful fall off myhti conquerours,
A remembraunce entrid in his thouht,
Reknyng the noumbre off our predecessours,
And first to mynde cam the progenitours
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And toward hym holdyng the passage,
As hym thouhte in his inward siht,
In ther comyng ful pitousli tremblyng,
Quakyng for age and for lak off myht,
Ther gret feeblesse be signes out shewyng;
And oon off hem, first at his comyng—
Our fadir Adam—sodenli abraide,
And to myn auctour euene thus he saide:
In ther comyng ful pitousli tremblyng,
Quakyng for age and for lak off myht,
Ther gret feeblesse be signes out shewyng;
And oon off hem, first at his comyng—
Our fadir Adam—sodenli abraide,
And to myn auctour euene thus he saide:
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