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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