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JOHN LYDGATE

1370?-1450?

18                                          Vox ultima Crucis

TARYE no lenger; toward thyn herytage
Hast on thy weye, and be of ryght good chere.
Go eche day onward on thy pylgrymage;
Thynke howe short tyme thou hast abyden here.
Thy place is bygged1 above the sterres clere,
Noon erthly palys2 wrought in so statly wyse.
Come on, my frend, my brother most entere!
For the I offered my blood in sacryfice.

1 bygged: built.

2 palys: palace.

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