[The lyf of our lady] Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A06559 of text S100605 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 17024). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A06559 STC 17024 ESTC S100605 99836440 99836440 714 2240861571

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A06559) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 714) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1:14) [The lyf of our lady] Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? [4]+ leaves By W. Caxton, [Westminister : 1484] By John Lydgate. A fragment: "Known only from 4 leaves, being leaves 2, 3, 6, and 7 of quire a."--Duff. Title from STC 17073; imprint from STC. In verse. a6v line 1 of heading ends: "yeftes of". Another edition of STC 17023. "These leaves, in which the text varies considerably from that of the corresponding leaves of [STC 17073], are more probably cancelled leaves than part of a separate edition."--Duff. Print show-through and pages torn and stained, affecting legibility. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo [The lyf of our lady] Lydgate, John, 1483 6 507 103 0 0 0 10 0 4003.94 F The rate of 4003.94 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2009-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2009-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-04 Sampled and proofread 2010-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2011-06 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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How our lady prayed to god for seuen petycions capytulo quinto 〈◊〉 Blisful lorde that knowest the entente Of euery herte in thyn eternal sight 〈◊〉 me go●●e the first cōmaundemeyte ●ulfille as it is skylle and right 〈◊〉 … aunte also with herte wylle & myght 〈…〉 my sowle and al my knowynge 〈…〉 loue aboue al other thynge ●●ue me myght playnly to fulfille … t byddyng like to thy plesaunce ●or to loue with herte and al my wylle 〈◊〉 neyghbour in dede and countenaunce … ht as my self with euery circumstaunce 〈◊〉 here with al for / Ioye woo or smerte 〈◊〉 ●ou louest to loue with al myn herte