_Example from Lydgate, a poetical Monk, who died in 1440._ "Our life here short of wit the great dulnes The heuy soule troubled with trauayle, And of memorye the glasyng brotelnes, Drede and vncunning haue made a strong batail With werines my spirite to assayle, And with their subtil creping in most queint Hath made my spirit in makyng for to feint." JOHN LYDGATE: _Fall of Princes_, Book III, Prol.
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_Example for the reign of Henry V,--from 1422 back to 1413._ "I wolle that the Duc of Orliance be kept stille withyn the Castil of Pontefret, with owte goyng to Robertis place, or to any other disport, it is better he lak his disport then we were disceyved.

Of all the remanant dothe as ye thenketh."-- _Letter of_ HENRY V.
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_Example for the reign of Henry IV,--from 1413 back to 1400._ "Right heigh and myghty Prynce, my goode and gracious Lorde,--I recommaund me to you as lowly as I kan or may with all my pouer hert, desiryng to hier goode and gracious tydynges of your worshipful astate and welfare."-- LORD GREY: _Letter to the Prince of Wales: Bucke's Classical Gram._, p.

145.
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