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.

                                
                                  They madyn hym many meladys.
                                
                                  He sey kyngges and emprorys,
                                
                                  Devlys, castelys, and towerys, [Cotton, "And dukes þat hadde casteles and toures."] 
                                  Line 500 
                                
                                  [Erles and barones fele,
                                
                                  That some tyme hadde þe worldes wele.
                                
                                  Oþur folke he syȝ also,
                                
                                  Neuur so mony as he dede þoo.]
                                
                                  And women he sey on euery syde,
                                  Line 505 
                                
                                  That merthys madyn yn þat tyde,
                                  Line 506 
                                
                                  [For all was joye þat with hem ferde,
                                
                                  And myche solempnyte þer he herde.]
                                  Line 508 
                                
                                  All þey wer clothyd yn reche wed,
                                
                                  What clothyn yt was cowd he noth red,
                                
                                  But schap they had on euery maner,
                                
                                  As men wer wonte to were here.
                                
                                  Be ther clothyn men myth them know,
                                
                                  As they stod eche on a row,
                                
                                  ȝownge and held, more and lesse,
                                
                                  Off wat degre that þey wasse. [Cotton, "As hyt her owene wyll was."] 
                                  Line 540 
                                
                                  [Ther was no wronge but euur ryȝth
                                
                                  Euur day and neuer nyȝth,
                                
                                  They shone as bryȝth and more clere
                                
                                  Then ony sonne yn þe day doth here].
                                  Line 544 
                                
                                  Fayer they spokyn to syre Howyn,
                                  Line 509 
                                
                                  All the folke of hym were fayn.
                                
                                  A-non he gan metyn ther
                                
                                  Tweyn boysschoppys, hym thowyt þey were,
                                  Line 512 
                                
                                  And both they went forth hym by,
                                
                                  And bore syre Howyn cumpany.
                                
                                  They schowyd hym þat he myth se,
                                
                                  The forest of that cuntre. [Forest]: Cotton, fayrnesse,] 
                                  Line 516 
                                
                                  It was grene on euery syd, [folio 36b] 
                                  Line 519

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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.
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Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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