DETAIL OF LYDGATE'S POETRY,

CLOPTON CHANTRY.

 

 

Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, interior, Clopton Chantry, detail, inscription below west windows with of verses of John Lydgate on Vine of Life Scroll. Lydgate (+ c. 1450) was a monk at Bury St. Edmunds. O Jesus Mercy, with support of Thy grace. . . . Remember our complaint. During our life with many great trespass, by many wrong path where we have miswent. Another poem: O Man, set up thine eye and see what mortal pain I suffered for thy trespass.

 

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