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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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‘And ȝeue I wyste thow woldeste so,
I wolde maken the to ben able.
Eche day to sytten at hir table;
With hir to be cómensal,
Off Cheerte in especyal.
And (ȝeue I schal the trouthë telle)
In howsholde with hir I dwelle,
And am to hir, off custom, ner.