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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
Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?)

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DE GUILLEVILLE'S PILGRIMAGE OF THE LIFE OF MAN
 
Prolog of the Translator, John Lydgate.
 
Her be-gynneth the prologue of the auctour.
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Here begynneth the pylgrym.
 
The ffyrste verse off the song:
 
The secunde verse:
 
The thryde verse:

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Arystotyles answereth:

‘Sothly,’ quod he, ‘I dar expresse,
As touchyng the gretnesse,
Yt ys but smal vn-to the sihte;
ffor ther-with-al, vnnethë myghte,
An hungry kyte (& do no wast,)
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‘Ther-off han a ful repast,
To staunche hys hunger (for gret nede,)
At the ffulle hym-sylff to ffede.’
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