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    The Temple of Glass
    The Temple of Glass
    The Temple of Glass
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    The Temple of Glass

    By John Lydgate

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1969
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      The Temple of Glass - John Lydgate

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      Title: The Temple of Glass

      Author: John Lydgate

      Release Date: July 30, 2009 [EBook #29552]

      Language: English

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      The Temple of Glass

      by

      John Lydgate

      Printed at Westminster

      by William Caxton about the year

      1477

      Cambridge

      at the University Press

      1905

      The unique book here reprinted in facsimile came to the Cambridge University Library in a famous volume of tracts described by Mr Blades (Biography and Typography of W. Caxton, 1882, p. 201).

      The volume had formed part of the collection of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, which was given to the University by King George the First in 1715.

      The first leaf, which is wanting, was probably blank.

      F. JENKINSON

      I certify that I have printed 250 copies only of this facsimile, that the impressions have been rubbed off the plates and the negatives destroyed.

      P. DUJARDIN

      .The temple of glas.

      For thought constreynt & greuous heuynes

      For pensifhed and higħ distres

      To bed I went now this other nyght

      Whan that lucina witħ hir pale light

      Was Ioyned last witħ phebus in aquarye

      Amyd decembre, whan of Ianuarye

      Ther be kalendes of the new yere

      And derk dyane horned and nothing clere

      Had her beames vnder a mysty cloude

      Witħ in my bed for cold I gan me shroude

      Al desolate for constraynt of my woo

      The long nyght walowyng to and fro

      Til at laste er I began take kepe

      Me dyde oppresse a sodeyn dedly slepe

      Witħ in the whiche me thougħt I was

      Rauysshed in spiryte in to a temple of glas

      I nyste how fer in wildernes

      That founded was as by liklynes

      Not vpon stele, but on a craggy roche

      Lyke yse y froze, and as I did approche

      Agayn the sonne that shone so clere

      As ony Cristal and euer ner and ner

      As I cam nyghe this grisly dredful place

      I wex astonyed, the light so in my face

      Be gan to smyte, so persing euer in one

      On euery part wher that I gan gone

      That I ne might no thing as I wolde

      Aboute me considere and beholde

      The wonder estres for brightnes of the sonne

      Til atte last certayn skyes donne

      Witħ wynde chaced han her cours y went

      To fore the stremes of titan and y blent

      So that I mighte witħ in and witħ oute

      Wherso I wolde beholden me aboute

      For to reporte the facōn and manere

      Of aƚƚ this place that was circuler

      In compas wyse, round by entayle wrought

      And whan I had longe gone and sought

      I found a wiket and entred in as fast

      In to the temple and myn eyen cast

      On euery syde now lowe eft alofte

      And right anon as I gan walken softe

      Yf I the sotħ a right reporte shal

      I sawe depeynted vpon a wal

      From este to weste many a fair ymage

      Of sondry louers lyke as they were of age

      Y sette in ordre after they were trewe

      Witħ liuely colours wonder fresh of hue

      And as me thought I sawe som sitte & som stāde

      And som̄e knelyng witħ billes in their hande

      And som̄e witħ compleynt woful & pietous

      Witħ doleful chere to putten to venus

      So as she sat fleetyng in the

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