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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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A-nother lady I sawh ek ther,
That lenede hyre on A red sper:
I myhtë nat beholde her wel,
ffor I sawh but the halvendel
Off hyr body, nor hyr fasown;
And (as to myn inspeccïoun,)
In hyr hand she held a spere,
Lokynge vp on the sterrys clere.