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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A06572) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 22722) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1:21) Here begynneth the testame[n]t of Iohn Lydgate monke of Berry which he made hymselfe, by his lyfe dayes. Testament Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? [28] p. : ill. (woodcuts) In fletestrete, by Richard Pynson: printer vnto the kynges noble grace, [Emprinted at Lo[n]don : [1520?]] In verse. Printer's name and address from colophon; publication date conjectured by STC. Signatures: a⁶ b-c⁴. The last leaf bears a woodcut on recto and printer's mark on verso. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng eebo Here begynneth the testame[n]t of Ioh⁻n Lydgate monke of Berry: which he made hymselfe, by his lyfe dayes. Lydgate, John, 1520 26 4784 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2005-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2005-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-05 Sampled and proofread 2006-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

Here begynneth the testament of Iohn Lydgate monke of Berry : which he made hymselfe / by his lyfe dayes . ⸫

portrait of John Lydgate

depiction of crucifixion of Christ

THe yeres passed / of my tender youthe Of my fresshe age / feared the grenenesse Lust apalled / th experyence is couthe The vnweldy ioyntes / starked with rudenesse The cloudy syght / mysted with darkenesse Without redresse : recure / or amendes To me of dethe / haue brought in the kalendes . Of my spent tyme / a fole may well complayne Thyng impossyble / agayne for to recure Idell dayes ylost / who can call agayne Them to refourme / by any aduenture Eche mortall man / is called to the lure Of dethe / alas vncertayne the passage Whose chiefe maryner / is called croked age . One of his bedellys / named Feblenes Came with his potent / in stede of a mace Sommoned me / and afterwarde came sickenes Malyncolyke : erthely / and pale of face With their warrant / these twayne can manace That dethe of me / his due dette sought And to a bedde of langoure / they me brought . Whervnto me / a none their dyd apere Whyle that I lay / complayning in a traunce Cladde in a mantell / a woman sadde of chere Blacke was her abyte / sobre was her countenaunce Strange of her port / frowarde of dalyaunce Castyng her loke / to mewarde in certayne Lyke as of me : she had / had dysdayne . This sayd woman / called was Remembraunce Of myspent tyme / in youthes lustynes Which to recorde / dyd me great greuaunce Than came her suster / named Pensyfnes For olde surfettes / gan vnto me dresse A wofull byll / which brought vnto my mynde My greatr outrages / of long tyme left behynde . Lyeng alone / I gan to Imagyne Howe with foure tymes / departed is the yere First : howe in Vere / the soyle tenlumyne Buddes gynning open / agayne the sonne clere The baume vpraysed / most souerayne and entere Out of the rote / dothe naturally ascende With newe lyuere the barayne soyle tamende . The Honysocle / the fresshe Primmerolles Their leaues splay / at Phebus vprisyng The amorous foules / with notes and carolles Salewe that season / euery mornyng Whan Aurora / her lycoure dystellyng Sent on herbes / the perly dropes shane Of syluery dewes / tenlumyne with the grene . This tyme Vere is named / of greennesse Tyme of ioye / of gladnesse and dysport Tyme of growyng / chyefe mother of fresshenesse Tyme of reioysing ordayned for confort Tyme : whan tyme / maketh his resort In gerysshe Marche / towarde the Aryete Our emyspery / to gladen with his here . But to dyrect by grace / my mater Makely knelyng : Iesu / in thy presence I me purpose / to gynne with prayer Vnder thy mercyfull / fructuous influence So thou Iesu / of thy benyuolence To my requestes / by mercyfull attendaunce Graunt or I dye : shrift housell repentaunce . My wretched lyfe tamendden / and correct I me purpose / with support of thy grace Thy dethe / thy passyon / thy crosse shall me dyrect Which suffredyst deth Iesu / for our trespace I wretche vnworthy / to loke vpon thy face Thy fete enbrasyng / from which I shall nattwyn Mercy enquiryng / thus woll I begyn .
Oratio . O Mighty lorde / of power mightyest Without whom / all force is feblenes Bounteous Iesu / of good goodlyest Mercy thy bedyll / or thou thy done dresse Delayeth rygour / to punysshe my wyckednesse Lengest abyding / lothest to do vengeaunce O blessed Iesu / of thyne hyghe goodnesse Graunt or I dye / shrift / housell / repentaunce . Though thou be mighty / thou art eke mercyable To all folkes / that mekely them repent I / a wretche : contagyous and culpable To all outrages / redy for to assent But of hole hert and wyll / in myne entent Of olde and newe / all vycious gouernaunce Of youth and age / and of mistyme spent Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Of my confessyon / receyue the sacryfice By my tong / vp offred vnto the That I may say / in all my best gyse Mekely with Dauyd / haue mercy vpon me Salue all my soores / that they nat cancred be With none olde rust / of dyseperaunce Which of hole hert / cry vpon my kne Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . O Iesu Iesu / here myne orison Bridell myne outrage / vnder thy dysciplyne Fetter sensualyte / enlumyne my reason To folowe the traces / of spyrituall doctryne Let thy grace lede me / right as a lyne With humble hert / to lyue to thy plesaunce And blessed Iesu / or I this lyfe shall fyne Graunt of thy mercy : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Suffre me to haue / sauour nor swetnes But in thy name / that called as Iesu All forayne thynges / to me make bytternes Saue onely Iesu / moost souerayne of vertue To my professyon / acordyng and moost due Euer to be paynted / in my remembraunce At myne ende / to graunt me this yssue Tofore my dethe : shrift / housellf repentaunce . No lorde but Iesu / moost merciable & benygne Which of mercy / toke our humanyte And of loue / to shewe a souerayne sygne Suffred passyon / vpon the rode tre Onely to fraunchyse / our mortalyte Which stode in danger / of Sathans encombraunce Or I passe hens / Iesu graunt vnto me Tofore my dethe : shrift / housell / repentaunce . I am excyted / and moued of nature This name of Iesu / soueraynly to prayse Name commended / moost hyghly in scripture Which name hath power / deed men to rayse To lyue eternall / whose vertue dothe so payse Agayne my synnes / wayed in balaunce That grace and mercy / shall so counterpayse Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Let me nat rest / nor haue no quyete Ocupy my soule / with spyrituall trauayle To syng and say / mercy Iesu swete My protectyon / agayne fendes in batayle Settyng asyde / all other apparayle And in Iesu / to put all myne affyaunce Treasour of tresours / that may me moost auayle Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . My fayth / my hope : to the Iesu dothe call Which glorious name / shall neuer out of mynde I shall the seke / what happe that euer befall By grace and mercy / in trust I shall the fynde And but I dyd / truely I were vnkynde Which for my sake / was pearsed with a launce Vnto the hert / Iesu leaue nat behynde Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . There is no god / but thou Iesu alone Soueraynest / and eke moost mercyfull Fayrest of fayre : erly / late / and soone Stable and moost strong / pytuous and rightfull Refourmyng synners / that ben in vertue dull Dauntyng the proude / mekenesse to enhaunce Thy tonne of mercy / is euer lyke full Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Suffre of mercy / I may to the speke O blessed Iesu / and goodly do aduert Who shall gyue leaser / out to breake That thou Iesu / mayst entre into myne hert There tabyde / more nere than my shert With aureate letters / graue therin substaunce Prouyde for me / and let it nat astert Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Say to my soule Jesu / thou art myne helth Hearyng this voyce / after I shall pursue Skoure that place / from all goostly fylth And vyces all / from thens do remewe Thyne holy goost / close in that lytell mewe Parte nat lightly / make suche cheupsaunce To encrease in vertue / and vyces to eschewe And or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Shewe glad thy face / & thy light downe shede The mercyfull lyght / of thyne eyen twayne On me thy seruaunt / which hath so mekyll nede For his synnes to wepe / and complayne And blessed Iesu / of mercy nat dysdayne Thy gracious showres / let rayne in habundaunce Upon my hert to dewyn euery vayne And or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Saue me thy seruaunt / O lorde : in thy mercy For lacke of which / let me nat be confounded For in the Iesu / myne hope standeth finally And all my trust in the Iesu / is grounded For my synnes : thynke Iesu / thou were wounded Naked on the rode / by mortall great penaunce By which / the power of Sathan was confounded Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Thou art my socoure / and refuge Gayne euery tempest / and trybulacion That worldely wawes / with their mortall deluge Ne drowne me nat / in their dredefull dongyon Where Carybdis / hath domynacion And Syrenes / syngeth songes of dysturbaunce To passe that daunger / be thou my protectyon Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Who shall gyue me / lyke myne entent That thou Iesu / mayst make thyne herberage By receyuyng / of the holy sacrament Into myne hert / which is to myne olde age Repast eternall / gayne all forayne damage Duely receyued / with deuout obseruaunce Celestyall guerdon / ende of my pylgremage Is shrift / and housell / and hertely repentaunce . I fele myne hert brotell / and ruynous Nat puryfied Iesu / therin to rest But as a carpenter / cometh to a broken house Or an artyficer / repayreth a ryuen chest So thou Jesu / of crafty men the best Repayre my thought / broke with mysgouernaunce Vyset my soule / my hert of steele thou brest Graunt or I dye : shrift housell / repentaunce . With wepyng eyen / and a contryte chere Accept me Jesu / and my complaynt conceyue As moost vnworthy t appere / at thyne autere Which in my selfe / no vertue apperceyue But if thy mercy / by grace me receyue By synfull lyueng / brought vnto vttraunce Pray with good hope / which may me nat deceyue Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Cryeng to the / that dyedest on the rode Which with thy blode / was stayned & made reed And on sherethursday / gaue vs to our fode Thy blessed body Jesu / in fourme of breed To me moost synfull / graunt or I be deed To clayme by mercy / for myne inherytaunce That with sharpe thorne / were crowned on thy heed Or I passe hens : shrift / housell / repentaunce . And one request / in especyall Graunt me Jesu / whyle I am here a lyue Euer to enprint / in my memoriall The remembraunce / of thy woundes fyue Nayles / with the spere : that dyd thyne hert ryue Thy croune of thorne / which was no smale penaunce Langage / and tong : me duely for to shriue The holy vncyon : shrift / housell / repentaunce . All the tokens / of thy bytter passyon I pray the Jesu / graue them in my memorie Duely marke / mydde centyr of my reason On Caluery / thy tryumphall vyctorie Man to restore / to thyne eternall glorie By medyacion / of thy meke sufferaunce Out of this exyle / vnsure and transytorie And whan we passe : shrift housell / repentaunce Of thy mercy / requyring the to myne Of my mynde the mydde poynt moost profounde This worde Jesu my fyue wyttes tenlumyne In length and brede / lyke a large wounde All ydell thoughtes / to auoyde them and confounde Thy crosse / thy scourgꝭ : thy garment cast at chaunce The rope / the pyllour : to which thou were bounde Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Of this prayer / mekely I make an ende Vnder thy mercyfull supportacyon O gracyous Jesu / graunt where euer I wende To haue memorie / vpon thy passyon Testymoniall / of my redempcion In my testament / set for allegeaunce This cause last / of my peticyon Graunt or I dye : shrift / housell / repentaunce . Finis orationis .
DVryng the tyme / of this season Vere I meane the season / of my yeres grene Ginnyng fro chyldhode / stretcheth vp so fere To the yeres acompted / fully .xv. By experyence / as it was well sene The gerysshe season / strong of condycion Dysposed to many / vnbrideld passyon . Voyde of reason / gyuen to wylfulnesse Frowarde to vertue of Christ gaue lytell hede Lothe to lerne / loued no vertuous besynesse Saue play or myrth / straung to spell or rede Folowyng all appetytes longyng to chyldhede Lightly tournyng : wylde / and selde sadde Wepyng for nought / and a none after gladde . For lytell worth / to stryue with my felawe As my passyons / dyd my bridell lede Of the yarde / stode I somtyme in awe To be scoured / that was all my drede Lothe towarde scole / lost my tyme in dede Lyke a yong colt / that ranne without bridell Made my frendes gyue good / to spende in ydell . I had in custome / to come to scole late Nat for to lerne / but for a countenaunce With my felawes / redy to debate To iangle and iape / was set all my plesaunce Wherof rebuked / this was my cheuysaunce To forge a lesyng / and there vpon to muse Whan I trespased / my selfe to excuse . To my better / dyd no reuerence Of my soueraynes / gaue no force at all Wexe obstynate / by inobedyence Ranne into gardeyns / appels there I stall To gather frutes / spared hedge nor wall To plucke grapes on other mennes vynes Was more redy / than for to say mattynes . My lust was alway / to skorne folke and lape Shrewed tournes / euer among to vse To scoffe and mowe / lyke a wanton ape Whan I dyd euyll / other I dyd acuse My wyttes fyue / in wast I dyd abuse Redyer cherystones / for to tell Than go to churche / or here the sacryng bell . Lothe to ryse / lother to bedde at eue With vnwasshe handes / redy to dynere My Pater noster / my Crede : or my beleue Cast at the cocke : lo / this was my manere Waued with eche wynde / as dothe a rede spere Snobbed of my frendes / suche tatches tamende Made deffe eare / lyst nat to them attende . A childe resemblyng / which was nat like to thriue Frowarde to god / recheles in his seruyce Lothe to correctyon / slothe my selfe to shriue All good thewys / redy to dyspice Chefe belwether / of fayned trowandyce This is to meane / my selfe I coude fayne Sicke lyke a trowande / felt no maner payne . My port / my pase : my fote alway vnstable My loke / myne eyen : vnsure and vacabounde In all my werkes / sodenly chaungeable To all good thewys / contrary I was founde Nowe ouersad / nowe mournyng : nowe iocounde Wylfull / recheles / madde : startyng as an hare To folowe my lust for nothyng wolde I spare . Entryng this tyme / into relygion Vnto the ploughe / I put forthe my hande A yere complete / made my professyon Consydering lytell charge / of thylke bande Of perfectyon / full good example I founde The techyng good / in me was all the lacke With Lothes wyfe / I loked oft a backe . Taught of my maisters / by virtuous dysciplyne My loke restrayne / and kepe close my syght Of blessed Benet / to folowe the doctryne And bere me lowly / to euery maner wyght By th aduertence / of myne inwarde syght Cast to god warde / of hole affectyon To folowe th emprises / of my professyon . His holy rule was vnto me radde And expounde / in full notable wyse By vertuous men / relygious and sadde Full well expert / dyscrete / prudent / and wyse And obseruauntes / of many goostly emprise I herde all well / but towchyng to the dede Of that they taught / I toke but lytell hede . Of relygion / I ware a blacke habyte Onely outwarde / as by good apparence To folowe the charge / sauoured but a lyte Saue by a maner / counterfet pretence But in effect / there was none exystence Lyke to the ymage / of Pygmalyon Shewed lyffely / and was nat but a ston . Vpon the ladder / with staues thrise thre The nyne degrees / of vertuous mekenesse Called in the rule / degrees of humylite where on to ascende / my fete me lyst nat dresse But by a maner / fayned false humblesse So couertly / whan folkes were present One to shewe outwaree / an other in myne entent . First / where I forsoke myne owne wyll Shet with a locke / of obedyence To obey my souerayns / as it was right and skyll To folowe the scole / of perfyt pacyence To my emynes / do worshyppe and reuerence Folowyng the reuers / toke all an other wey What I was bydden / I coude well disobey . With tong at large / and brotell conscyence Full of wordes / dysordinate of langage Recheles / to kepe my lyppes in scylence Mouth : eye / and eares / toke their auauntage To haue their course / vnbrideld by outrage Out of the raynes / of attemperaunce To sensualyte / gaue all the gouernaunce Watche out of tyme : ryot / and dronkennesse Vnfructuous talkyng / intemperat dyete To vayne fables / I dyd myne eares dresse False detractyon among / was to me swete To talke of vertue / me thought it was nat mete To my courage / nor my complexyon Nor nought / that sowned towarde perfectyon . One with the first / to take my dysport Last that arose to come to the quere In contemplacyon / I founde but small confort Holy stories / dyd to me no chere I sauoured more / in good wyne that was clere And euery houre / my passage to dresse As I sayd erst / in ryotte or excesse . Coude grudge / and founde no cause why Causles / oft complayned of my fare Gayne my correctyons / answered frowardly Without reuerence / lyst no man to spare Of vertue and pacyence / I was all bare Of recheles youth / I lyst none hede to take What Christ Iesu / suffred for my sake . Which nowe remembring / in my later age Tyme of my chyldhode / as I reherce shall Within fyftene / holdyng my passage Mydde of a cloyster / depyct vpon a wall I sawe a crucyfixe / whose woundes were nat small With this worde / vide / written there besyde Beholde my mekenes chylde / and leaue thy pride . The which worde / whan I dyd vnderstande In my last age / takyng the sentence Theron remembring my penne I toke in hande Gan to write / with humble reuerence On this worde vide / of humble dyligence In remembring / Christes passyon This lytell dyte / this compylacion .
Nota. Beholde : O man / lyft vp thyne eye and se What mortall payne / I suffred for thy trespace With pyteous voyce / I cry and say to the Beholde my woundes / beholde my blody face Beholde the rebukes / that do me so manace Beholde myne enmyes / that do me so dyspyce And howe that I / to refourme the to grace Was lyke a lambe / offred insacryfice . Beholde the paynes / of whom that I was take Beholde the cordes / with which that I was bounde Behold the armours / which made myne hert quake Beholde the gardyne / in which that I was founde Beholde howe Iudas / toke .xxx. pens rounde Beholde his treason / beholde his couetyse Beholde howe I / with many a mortall wounde Was lyke a lambe / offred in sacrifyce . Se my dysciple / which that hath me solde And se his fayned / false salutacyon And se the money / which that he hath tolde And se his kyssing / of false decepcyon Beholde also / the compassed false treason Take as a thefe / with lanternes in their gyse And afterwarde / for mannes redempcyon Was lyke a lambe / offred in sacrifyce . Beholde to Cayphas howe I was presented Beholde howe Pylate / lyst gyue me no respyte Beholde how bysshops / were to my deth assented And se howe Herode / had me in dyspyte And lyke a fole / I was cladde in whyte Drawen as a felone / in moost cruell wyse And last of all / I after their delyte Was lyke a lambe / offred in sacrifyce . Beholde the mynisters / which had me in kepyng Beholde the pyller / and the ropes strong Where I was bounde / my sydes downe bledyng Moost felly beate / with their scourges long Beholde the batayle / that I dyd vnderfong The brunt abyding / of their mortall emprise Thorough their acusyng / and sclaunders wrong Was lyke a lambe / offred in sacrifyce . Beholde and se / the hatefull wretchednes Put agayne me / to my confusyon Myne eyen hydde / and blynded with darkenes Beat and eke bounde / by false illusyon Salewed in skorne / by their false knelyng downe Beholde all this / and se the mortall gyse Howe I onely / for mannes saluacyon Was lyke a lambe / offred in sacrifyce . Se the wytnesse / by whome I was deceydue Beholde the iudges / that gaue me iugement Beholde the crosse / that was for me deuysed Beholde my body / with beatyng all to rent Beholde the people / which of false entent Causeles / dyd agayne me ryse Which lyke a lambe / of malyce Innocent Was for mankynde / offred in sacrifyce . Beholde the woman / that folowed me afterre That sore wept / whan I thus was assayled Beholde the iewes / which by their cruell werre Haue my body / vnto a crosse nayled Beholde my tourmentes / moost sharply aparayled Atwene two theues / put to my iewyse Beholde howe moche my dethe / hath eke auayled That was for man / offred in sacrifyce . Behold the spere / moost sharply grounde & whet Myne hert wounded / vpon the right syde Beholde the redespere / gall and ysell fet Beholde the scourgyngꝭ / which that I dyd abyde And fyue woundes / that were made so wyde Which / no man lyst of ruthe to aduertyse And thus I was of mekenes agayne pride For mannes offence / offred in sacryfice . Se my dysciples / howe they haue me forsake And fro me fledde / almoost euery chone Se howe they slept / lyst nat with me wake Of mortall drede / they left me all alone Except my mother / and my cosyn saynt John My dethe complayning / in moost dolefull wyse Se / fro my crosse they wolde neuer gone For mannes offence / offred in sacryfice Se howe I was iudged / to the dethe Se Baraban gone / at his lyberte Se / with aspere / howe Longyus me slethe Beholde two lycours / dystillyng downe fro me Se blode and water / by mercyfull plente Rayle by my sydes / which ought ynough suffice To man / whan I vpon the rode tre Was lyke a lambe / offred insacryfice . Beholde the knyghtis / which by their frowarde chaunce Sate for my clothes / at the dyce to pley Beholde my mother / sownyng for greuaunce Vpon the crosse / whan she sawe me dey Beholde the sepulture / in which my bones ley Kept with strong watche / tyll I dyd a ryse Of hell gates se / howe I brake the key And gaue for man / my blode in sacryfice . Agayne thy pride / beholde my great mekenesse Gayne thyne enuy / beholde my charyte Gayne thy lechery / beholde my chast clennesse Gayne thy couetyse / beholde my pouerte Atwene two theues / nayled tyll a tre Rayled with reed blode / they lyst me so disgyse Beholde : O man / all this I dyd for the Meke as a lambe / offred insacryfice . Beholde my loue / and gyue me thyne agayne Beholde I dyed / thy raunsome for to pay Se : howe my hert is open / brode and playne Thy goostly enmyes / onely to affray An harder batayle / no man might assay O all tryumphes / the grettest hygh emprise Wherfore : O man / no lengar the dismay I gaue my blode for the / in sacryfice . Tourne home agayne / thy synne forsake Beholde and se / if ought be left behynde Howe I to mercy / am redy the to take Gyue me thy hert / and be nomore vnkynde Thy loue and myne / togyther do them bynde And let them neuer part / in no wyse Whan thou were lost / thy soule agayne to fynde My blode I offred / for the in sacryfice . Enprint these thynges / in thyne inwarde thought And graue them depe / in thy remembraunce Thynke on them well / and forgete them nought All this I suffred / to do the allegyaunce And with my sayntes / to gyue the suffysaunce In the heuenly court / for the I do deuyse A place eternall / a place of all plesaunce For which my blode / I gaue in sacrifyce . And more my mercy / to put at a prefe To euery synner / that none ne shall it mysse Remembre / howe I gaue my mercy to the thefe Which had so long trespased / and done a mysse Went he nat frely / with me to paradysse Haue this in mynde / howe it is my gyse All repentaunt / to bring to my blysse For whom my blode / I gaue in sacrifyce . Tary no lengar / towarde thy herytage Haste on thy way and be of right good chere To eche day onwarde / on thy pylgremage Thynke howe short tyme / thou shalt abyde here Thy place is bylded / aboue the sterres clere None erthly palaes / wrought in so stately wyse Come on my frende / my brother moost entere For the I offred / my blode in sacrifyce . Thus endeth the testament of Iohn Lydgate monke of Bery / on whose soule Iesu haue mercy . Et sic est finis / sit laus et gloria trinis .

Emprinted at London in fletestrete / by Richard Pynson : printer vnto the kynges noble grace . With priuylege of our souerayne lorde the kyng .

depiction of the crucifixion of Christ

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