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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.

Here begynneth the pylgrym.

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The testament off Cryst Ihesu.

Arystotyles dyde hys massage in thys manere:

Sapyence answerde.

Arystotylles Answerde:

Sapyence speketh:

Arystotyles Answereth:

Sapyence axeth:

Arystotyles answereth:

Sapyence axeth:

Arystotyles answerd:

Sapience argueth:

Arystotyles Answerde:

Sapyence speketh:

Arystotyles:

Sapyence argueth:

Arystotyles answerede:

Sapience Axeth:

Aristotiles answerde:

[Mary, be our Refuge in Tribulation! 4 verses of 8 lines each, abab, bcbc.]

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The ffyrste verse off the song:

The secunde verse:

The thryde verse:

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Aristotiles answerde:

Quod he, ‘with support off your grace,
I kan telle noon other place,

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‘(ffor to speke in wordys pleyne,)
Wher I ha put tho townys tweyne,
So renomyd & flourynge in glorye,
Saue only in my memórye!’