Hoccleve's Regement of Princes (British Library, Harley 4866, f.88). All images by permission of the British Library.

What is this word?

yogh rough though thogh

What is this word?

queynt queyut quethut quieyut

What is this word?

rothsaftnesse sothfastneffe sothfastnesse rothfastnesse

What is this word?

opinion opinyon oppinyon oppynyon

Al thogh his lyfe be queyut the resemblaunce Of him hath in me so fressh lyflynesse

That to putte othir men in remembraunce Of his persone I have heere his lyknesse

Do make to this ende in sothfastnesse That thei that have of him left thought and mynde By this peynture may ageyn him fynde

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