A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

                                
                                  As they haddyne hym forth more,
                                
                                  A woll mych wattyr he say be-fore,
                                
                                  That was brod and blake as pyke,
                                  Line 405 
                                
                                  Men and women ther werne thyke,
                                
                                  Fyndys stodyne on euery syde
                                
                                  As thyke as motys yn somer tyde.
                                  Line 408 
                                
                                  [The water stonke fowle þer to,
                                
                                  And dede þe soles mykyll woo,
                                
                                  Up þey come, to ese hem a stownde,
                                
                                  þe deuelus drewe hem aȝeyn to þe grownde.]
                                
                                  Ouer the water a bryge was,
                                  Line 413 
                                
                                  Yt wos glyddyr [Glyddyr.] Cotton, kener.]  as ony glass,
                                
                                  Ther-of he was full sore a-ferd, [Cotton, ll. 415 and 416, "Hyt was narowe and hyt was hyȝe. Vneþe þat oþur ende he syȝe."]  [folio 35a] 
                                
                                  Yt was as scharp as ony sward,
                                  Line 416 
                                
                                  The medys wer hey, þe endys wer lowe,
                                
                                  Yt faryd ryth as a bent bowe.
                                
                                  "Knyth," seyd a fynd, "here may þou see,
                                
                                  Loke to-ward hell the ryght entre,
                                  Line 420 
                                
                                  Ouer thys bryge þou muste wynd;
                                
                                  Wynd and wether we xall the send,
                                
                                  We xall the send wyndys wood,
                                
                                  Thowe xall caste þe yn to owre flood."
                                
                                  Ther the knyth knelyd a down,
                                  Line 425 
                                
                                  To Jesu he made hys orysune,
                                
                                  "Jesu," he seyd, "full of myth,
                                
                                  That made bothe day and nyth,
                                
                                  Wynd and weder at thy wyll,
                                
                                  For to blow and fore to be styll,
                                  Line 430 
                                
                                  Thow makyst the wynd fore to blowe,
                                
                                  And whan thow wylte to be lowe,
                                
                                  Send me here thy grete grace
                                
                                  That I may thys bryge pace.

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Title: A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.
Canvas: Page 98
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

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