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Folio 228 Verso
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Thus in vi thyngis by orders men may sene •
Notabułł a corde and Iustyce1 conneuience •
Blod Eyre and veren south and Meredeen •
And age of Childehode by naturałł assistence •
Withe wiche they stonde premynyence •
hete and moster directyd the passage •
With grene fervence to force yonge corage •
ffyrst Sepherus with his blastes sote •
Enspireth veere with newe buddes grene •
The bame ascendith out of euery Rote •
Chaugynge the flouris agayne the sonne shene •
Maye of a month Monether sittith as a quene •
Here systyr apryłł waterynge here gardeynis •
With holsum shoures shedd in tender vynes2 •
This tyme of verray flora doth his cure •
With soleyne mottelyis passynge fressh and gay •
Purpułł colours wrogħt by dame nature •
Mountayns vales and medewis to arraye •
here warderops opon lyst not to delayne •
large mesure shewe out and to shedde •
Tre sue of fayre wiche she doth possede •
This seasone verray most plesauntly to childirhode •
with here chapeletis grene white and Rede •
In wiche tyme þe newe yonge blode •
hotte and moste ascendynge vp in dede •
Reioysinge hertis as it aboougħt doth spereede •
wenynge this season amonge there merthes ałł •
shuld neuer discresson nor appałł3 •
Notes
  1. The EETS edition has "lust" here. ↩
  2. "George Goodman" is written in pencil to the left of the final four lines in a later hand. ↩
  3. "The vereaunt," the catchwords for the next gathering, appears in a decorated scroll at the bottom right. This indicates that there was more of the poem available originally, unlike with other witnesses where it appears either the first or last sections of the poem are circulating without the rest of the text. ↩

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