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The Testament of John Lydgate:
British Library Harley 218 Verses

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Folio 68 Verso
Compare Witnesses: •
One with the first / to take my disporte •
Last that aros / to come to the quere •
In contemplacioun I fond but smałł comforte •
Holy histories did to me no chier •
I savoured more in good wyne that was clere •
And euery houre / my passage for to dresse •
As I seyd erst / to ryot or excesse •
Kowde gruccħ and fond no cause why •
Causeles ofte compleynyng on my fare •
Geyn my correcciouns answered frowardly •
With1 oute reuerence list to man to spare •
Of ałł vertu and pacience I was bare •
Of rekles youthe list non hede to take •
What cryst Ihesu / suffred for my sake •
Which now remembryng / in my later age •
Tyme of my childhode / as I reherse shałł •
Wyth2 Inne xv. holdyng / my passage •
Myd of a cloyster / depicte vpon a wałł •
I savgħ a crucifyx whos woundes were •
With3 this vide wrete there be syde •
Be hold my mekenesse O child And love thy pryde •
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  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. The rubricator only touched one half of the "w" glyph here. ↩

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