Collected English Verse — John Lydgate. b. ?1370, d. ?1450

1370?-1450?

18   Vox ultima Crucis

TARYE no lenger; toward thyn herytage
Hast on thy weye, and be of ryght good chere.
Go eche day onward on thy pylgrymage;
Thynke howe short tyme thou hast abyden here.
Thy place is bygged¹ above the sterres clere,
Noon erthly palys² wrought in so statly wyse.
Come on, my frend, my brother most entere!
For the I offered my blood in sacryfice.