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 the name off this Mercer
I-callyd is ‘hooly scripture,’
Whiche ffor to leren, I do my cure,
In a vessyl off Parchemyn:—
Off ffee, I calle the offyce myn:—
‘In swyche a vessel, euery coost,
I bere it that they be not lost.
Therto I do my dylygence,
To kepe it ffrom alle vyolence;
ffor it may not (as thow doste se,)
In noon other vessel be,
To kepe it in savacyoun;
And my name is eke ‘Lessown,’
And ‘Studye,’ amonge these clerkës alle,
Whiche off bothe, thow lyste me calle.
I-callyd is ‘hooly scripture,’
Whiche ffor to leren, I do my cure,
In a vessyl off Parchemyn:—
Off ffee, I calle the offyce myn:—
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I bere it that they be not lost.
Therto I do my dylygence,
To kepe it ffrom alle vyolence;
ffor it may not (as thow doste se,)
In noon other vessel be,
To kepe it in savacyoun;
And my name is eke ‘Lessown,’
And ‘Studye,’ amonge these clerkës alle,
Whiche off bothe, thow lyste me calle.
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