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The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man

Englisht by John Lydgate, A.D. 1426, from the French of Guillaume De Deguileville, A.D. 1330, 1355. The Text Edited by F. J. Furnivall ... With Introduction, Notes, Glossary and Indexes by Katharine B. Locock

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Arystotylles Answerde:

‘Certys,’ quod he, ‘me lyst nat lye,
Yt were no maner sophystrye,
But A tookne off gentyllesse;
And also (pleynly to expresse,)
A sygne (as I kan devyse,)
Off honour, love, & gret fraunchyse.’