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The Testament of John Lydgate:
British Library Harley 218 Verses

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Folio 70 Verso
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Be hold the woman that folowed me a ferre •
That sore wept whan I thus was assayled •
Be hold the Iewes which be ther cruel werre •
Han my body vn to the cros I nayled •
Be hold my tormentes most sharply apparayled •
Atwene to theues put to my Iuyse •
Be hold how mychel / my deth hath eke avayled •
That I was for man offered in sacryfice •
Be hold the spere most sharply ground & whette •
Myn herte wounded vpon the ryght syde •
Behold1 the reed spyre / galle and eysel fett •
Be hold the skornynges / whicħ þat I did abyde •
And my .v. woundes / that were made so wyde •
Which2 no man list / of rewthe to aduertyse •
And thus I was / of mekenesse ageyn pryde •
Ffor mannes offence offered in sacryfice •
Se my disceples how thei haue me for sake •
And fro me fled almost euerychoun •
Se how they slepte / and lyst not with me wake •
Of mortałł drede they lefte me alle alone •
Except my moder and my cosyn seynt Johnn •
My deth compleynyng / in most doolfułł wyse •
Se from my crosse they wold neueregoon3 •
Ffor mannes offence / whann4 •
Notes
  1. The EETS edition has "beholde" here, but there isn't any obvious suspension mark here. The mark after the d here appears elsewhere where MacCraken has not considered it a suspension mark. ↩
  2. The rubricator only touched one half of the "w" glyph here. ↩
  3. There is an otiose mark over the "n" here. ↩
  4. There is a suspension mark over the n here, but the EETS edition does not expand it here. ↩

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