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The Testament of John Lydgate:
British Library Harley 218 Verses

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Folio 58 Verso
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The hony soucle / the ffresshe primerolles •
The leues splaye / at phebus vprysyng •
Thamerous soules / with motytes and carolles •
Salue this sesoun / euery mornyng •
Wħan Aurora / hir licour distillyng •
Sent onherberes[s] the the perely dropis shene •
Of siluer dewees / tenlumyne with the grene •
This tyme of ver / is named of grenesse1 •
Tyme of ioye / of gladnesse and disporte •
Tyme of growyng / chief moder of freshnesse •
Tyme of reioysyng / ordeyned for counforte •
Tyme whan tyme / maketh his resorte •
In geryshe Marche / toward the Ariete •
Our Emyspery / to gladen with his hete •
Whiche2 sesoun prikkes fressħ corages •
Reioysetħ bestes / walking in ther pasture •
Causetħ byrdes / to syng in ther cages •
Whanne3 blood / reneweth in euery creature •
Sum obseruaunce doyng to nature •
Whicħ is of ver / called chief pryncesse •
And vnder god / ther werdly4 Empresse •
Notes
  1. The mark in the left margin that begins stanzas 1-37 ends here and does not appear next to the other stanzas. ↩
  2. The rubricator only touched one half of the "w" glyph here. ↩
  3. The EETS edition gives the impression that the terminal "e" here is written out and only the "n" is suspended. This is not the case. Instead, the suspension mark is over the first "n" and both the "n" and the terminal "e" are suspended. ↩
  4. The EETS edition has "wordly," but the second glyph of the word is partially filled in. When comparing it to other examples of "o" and "e" in the witness it seems much more likely it's meant to be "e." The "o" glyph is smaller usually and slightly more boxy. ↩

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