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The Testament of John Lydgate:
British Library Harley 218 Verses

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Folio 60 Recto
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The variaunt sesoun / of this stormy age
Abraydetħ euere / on newefangelnesse
Now frounyng chiere / now fressħ of visage
Now glad now lygħt / now trouble and hevynesse
Wylde1 as an herte / nowe mornyng for sadnesse
Stormyssħ2 as Marche / with chaunges ful sodeyne
After cleer shynyng / to turne and make it reyne
Of this sesoun lust holte l rene and brydełł
Selde or neuere / a bydyng in opoynte
Now passyng besy / nowe dissolute now ydełł
Now a good felowe / now ałł out of ioynte
Now smothe now stark / now like an hard purpoynt
Now as the peys / of a diałł gotħ
Now gerysħ glad / and a noon after wrotħ
Liche as in ver men gretly them delyte
To be holde / the beaute souerayne
Of these blosomes / somme blewe rede and white
In whos fresshenesse no colour may atteyne
But thanne vnwarly / cometħ a wynde sodeyne
Ffor no fauour list not for to spare
Ffresshnesse of braunches / for to make hem bare
Notes
  1. The rubricator only touched one half of the "w" glyph here.
  2. The EETS edition suggests that "m" is suspended, but the manuscript witness makes it clear that "m" is written out.