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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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Whan I, wyth good deuocïoun,
Haddë sayd thys Orysoun,
Off the ffloodys the gretë Rage
Ganne somwhat to a-swage,

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And the wyndes, for myn ese,
Gan in party to apese.