A Mumming at London:
Trinity R.3.20 Verses
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Folio 29 Verso (page 60)
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Þe foure •By þe pourveyaunce of hir forsigħt •
And hir myrrour called provydence •
is strong to make Resistance •
In hir forsigħt as it is Rigħt •
Ageyns fortune / and al hir migħt •
ffor Senec seyþe / who þat can
see •
Þat prudence / haþe eyegħen
three •
Specyally in hir lookynges •
To considre / three maner thinges •
Alweyes by good avysement •
Thinges passed and eeke present •
And thinges affter þat shal falle •
And she mot looke / first of alle •
And doon hir Inwarde besy peyne •
Thinges present for to ordeyne •
Avysely on euery syde •
And future thinges for to provyde •
Þe thinges passed in substaunce •
ffor to haue in Remembraunce •
And who þus dooþe I say þat hee •
Verrayly haþe yegħen three •
Comitted vn to his diffence •
Þe trowe myrrour of prouydence •
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Þane þis lady is his guyde •him to defende on euery syde •
And al hir power for to reuerse •
ffor fraunchysed and liberte •
ffrome his power to goo free •
Stonde alle folkes in sentence •
Wheeche beon gouerned by Prudence •
i. providencia •
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Seoþe here þis lady
Rigħtwysnesse •
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