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The Testament of John Lydgate:
British Library Harley 218 Verses

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Se how that I was Iuged to the detħ •
Se baraban / gon at his liberte •
Se with a spere longeus me sletħ •
Be holde two lycours distyllyng dovn1 fro me •
Se blood and water by mercifułł plente •
Rayle be my sydes / whicħ ought I now suffyce •
To man / whann2 I vpon the rood tree •
Was3 like a lambe offered in sacrifice •
Be hold the knyghtes / whicħ be ther froward chaunce •
Sat for my clothes / and the dees to pley •
Be hold my modyr / swownyng for grevaunce •
Vpon the crosse whan she saw me deye •
Be holde the sepulcre / in whicħ my bones lay •
Kepte which strong wacche / til I did a ryse •
Of helle gates se how I brake the keye •
And gaf for man my blood in sacryfice •
And geyn thi pryde be hold my gret mekenesse •
Geyn thyn envie / be hold my charite •
Geyn thy leccherye be hold my chast clennesse •
Geyn thy couetyse be hold my pouerte •
A twene4 too theves nayled to a tree •
Rayled with reed blood they lyst me so disguyse5 •
Be hold o man / all this I did for the •
Meke as a lambe / offred in sacryfice •
Notes
  1. There is a hooked mark at the terminal n, but it is not likely it's a suspension mark here. ↩
  2. There is a suspension mark over the "n" here, which MacCraken does not acknowledge. Nor does he include the suspension mark in the EETS edition. ↩
  3. The rubricator only touched one half of the "w" glyph here. ↩
  4. The EETS edition has "tweene" here, but the manuscript witness is clear that there's a single e where the edition has two. ↩
  5. The EETS edition has "desguyse" here but the manuscript is clear that the second glyph should be an "i" and not an "e." ↩

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