A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance

Note 847 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 8)

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Al-thogh his lyfe be queynt, the résemblaunce Of him hath me so fressh lyflynesse, That, to putte othir men in rémembraunce Of his persone, I have heere his lyknesse Do makë, to this ende, in sothfastnesse, That thei that have of him lest thought and mynde, By this peynturë may ageyn him fynde.

("Minor Poems," p. xxxiii.; on this portrait see above, p. 341.)

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