| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| John Lydgate. 1370?–1450? |
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| 14. Vox ultima Crucis |
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| TARYE no lenger; toward thyn heritage | |
| Hast on thy weye, and be of ryght good chere. | |
| Go eche day onward on thy pylgrymage; | |
| Thynke howe short tyme thou hast abyden here. | |
| Thy place is bygged above the sterres clere, | 5 |
| Noon erthly palys wrought in so statly wyse. | |
| Come on, my frend, my brother most entere! | |
| For the I offered my blood in sacryfice. | |
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GLOSS: bygged] built. palys] palace. |
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