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Folio 135 Verso
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Loo here begenneth abalade made by daun Iohnn •
Lidgate at elltham in cristmasse ffor amomyng •
to fore the kynge and the Quene1 •
Bachus which is god of the glade vyne •
Iuno and Ceres2 accorded all thos thre •
through ther pouer / which þat is devyne •
send now ther gyftes vnto your magestye •
wyne whete and oyle by marchaundes þat here be •
whych represent vnto your hyghe nobellnes •
pees with your leges plente and gladnes •
ffor thes gyfftes / pleynly to descryve3 •
whyche in them self designe all souffisaunce •
peas is betokened by the grene olyve •
in whett and oylle is foulsom haboundaunce •
which to your hyghnes for to do plesaunce •
they represente now to your hye nobellnesse •
pees with your leges plente and4 gladnes •
Isacke the patryarke ful ould •
G of his blessynge witħ his gyfftes thre •
vnto Iacob in scripture it is tolde •
genesis ye maye it rede and see •
and semblabuly the holy trynite •
your state / blessynge sent to your hye noblenesse •
peas with your leges plente with gladnes •
Notes
  1. The "Q" is struck through, but it appears to be an otiose mark rather than an actual deletion. There is also a diagonal mark after the word "Quene" here, so it could be that this was meant to be bracketing without the underlined word that appears in other instances. ↩
  2. bracketed on the left. ↩
  3. While this looks like it should be an "st" ligature the glyph for "c" often has a crossbar that makes it appear to be "t." When it's not part of a ligature the "t" hooks more sharply to the right than "c." ↩
  4. The EETS edition has "with" here, which is what is in the other witness, Trinity R.3.20 ↩

The work on this manuscript witness was generously supported by a ZKS-Lendrum Fellowship in the Scientific Study of Manuscripts and Inscriptions at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. The transcription of this work is owned by the editor and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images are (c) British Library Board (British Library Additional MS 29729) and rights are reserved.