John Lydgate


from Vertue of the Masse



¶ Entryng the chirche, withe al humylite,
    To here masse at morwe at yowre risyng
Dispose yowre self, knelyng on kne,
    For to be there atte begynnyng.
Fro the tyme of his Revestyng,
    Departe nat till he have doo :
To alle thy werkis grete furtheryng
    To abyde the ende of Inprincipio.

MS. Harl. 2254, fol. 179.




Simmons, Thomas Frederick, ed. The Lay-Folks Mass-Book.
      London: Early English Text Society, 1879. 163.




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