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Folio 140 Recto
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Lo here folowethe the deuyse of a desguysinge to fore the grete •
estates of this land than beinge at london made by lidgate •
daun Iohnn the munke of bury / of dame fortune dame prudence •
dame rightwysnesse1 and dame ffortitudo2 behold it for it is •
morall plesaunt and notabell / lo3 first cometh in dame fortune4 •
Loo5 here this lady that ye may see •
lady of mutabilyte •
whych that called is fortune •
for selde in one she dothe continewe •
ffor as she hathe a doubell face •
right so euery oure and space •
she chaungeth hur condysyones •
ay full of transmutacyons •
lyche as the romaynes of the rose •
descryveth hur / with outen glose •
and telleth pleynly / how that she •
hath hur dwellynge in the see •
Ioyninge6 to a baryn roche •
and on that on syde doth approche •
alytell mountayn lyke an yle •
vponn whyche land somme yle[mewhy]le7 •
ther growen freshe floures nowe •
wonder lusty of ther hue •
dyuers tres with frute elade •
and byrdes with ther notes glade •
than singen / and maken melodye •
In ther heuynly hermon[y]e8 •
Notes
  1. This underline is bracketed on the right. ↩
  2. Bracketed on the right. ↩
  3. The attributed title in the DIMEV entry for this manuscript witness has "to," but the glyph is clearly "lo." ↩
  4. Bracketed on the right. ↩
  5. The space between "l" and "oo" makes it clear that "l" is intended as a guide letter here. ↩
  6. While elsewhere in the manuscript there is a differentiation between the "I" and "J" glyphs it is inconsistent and nonexistent in this particular item. ↩
  7. It looks like the scribe originally wrote "somme yle" here, but realized they had copied the final word of the previous line and corrected themselves by overwriting the fourth glyph to the third glyph from the end with "why." A suspension mark is then placed over the "w." ↩
  8. It appears that the scribe originally wrote "hermone" here, then overwrote the "n" with a "y" glyph. ↩

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.