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The Testament of John Lydgate:
British Library Harley 218 Verses

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Where1 here on to me / a noon did appere •
Whiłł2 that I lay / compleynyng in a trance •
Clad in a mentełł / a woman sad of chere •
Blak was here abyte sobre of countenaunce •
Straunge of hir porte / froward of dalyaunce •
Castyng here looke / to me ward in certeyne •
Licħ of me / she hadde but dysdeyne •
3This seid woman / was called remembraunce •
Of syspent tyme in youthes lustynesse •
Whiche4 to recorde / did me gret grevaunce •
Than cam her suster / named pensifnesse •
Ffor olde surfetes / and gan onto me dresse •
a woofulbylle / whicħ brougħt vnto mynde •
My gret out rages / of long tyme left be hynde •
Lyggyng a lone I ganne to ymagyne •
How with .iiij. tymes / departed is the yere •
Ffirst how in ver / the soyle tenlumyne5 •
Buddes gyn open / a geyne the sunne clere •
The bavme vp reysed / most souereyne and entere •
Out of the rote dotħ naturally ascende •
With newe6 lyffre / the bareyne soyle7 tamende •
Notes
  1. The rubricator only touched one half of the "w" glyph here. ↩
  2. The rubricator only touched one half of the "w" glyph here. ↩
  3. unlike other stanzas, where the mark is to the left of the first line here it appears between the fist and second lines. This suggests that the marks were made after the text was written. ↩
  4. The rubricator only touched one half of the "w" glyph here. ↩
  5. The first glyph looks like it has been partially erased. Based on other witnesses and the shape of the glyph elsewhere on the page it is likely the initial glyph is "t," as the EETS edition has. ↩
  6. The EETS edition has "new" here. ↩
  7. The EETS edition has "soil" here. ↩

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