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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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The whel I lefftë, off ffortune,
Wych selde in Onë doth contune;
I swam forth, in ful gret ffer;
I knew no wayë, her ne ther;
Tyl at the laste, off grace, I fond
A verray lytel hyl off sond,
And thyderward I gan me dresse,
To restë me for werynesse.