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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 ffyrste verse off the song:

I schal synge, with al my myght,
And so I howe, off verrey ryght.
I am nakyd, as ȝe may se;
By no thyng men may holden me;
Thowgh they me púrsue, day and nyght,
To hold[ë] me they have no myght.