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The Testament of John Lydgate:
Long Melford Verses

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Now in the name of oure lord ihesus •
of right hool herte & in oure1 best entent •
oure lyf remembryng froward and vicious •
ay contrarye to the comaundement •
of crist ihesu now wyth avisement •
the lord beseching [..]2 mercy and pete •
oure youthe & age that we have myspent •
wyth this woord mercy knelyng on oure kne3 •
Notes
  1. Although “r” on the painted panels of the chapel is consistently written with an otiose mark when it concludes a word, the mark here is rendered more heavily and with a dot indicating suspension above the r. This rendering as “oure” is a linguistic outlier for the area based on the electronic Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English’s linguistic profiles for “oure,” “our,” and “oure.” See eLALME's User Defined Maps for more information. Unfortunately the current online version (as of 6 December 2022) does not allow direct linking between static dotmaps and linguistic profiles. ↩
  2. Trapp suggests "of" here, which fits the space in a way that MacCracken's "in thyn" will not, but it does not seem to fit the admittedly paltry remnants of the text. "In" seems the likely word here, but the text is too damaged to definitively state that this is the case. ↩
  3. This change occurs only in the Clopton verses. ↩

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