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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 secunde verse:

A smalë posterne I may pace,
And, thorough thykke and thynnë trace;
ffor, thow that ffolkës dyde her peyne,
They may off me no thyng restreyne,
Affter, euere thow they chace.