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.

                                
                                  Wyth them sche went, meke and styll,
                                
                                  On to the kyng a-ȝens hyre wyll,
                                
                                  And full fayere sche gan hym grete.
                                  Line 134 
                                
                                  He askyd hyre name, and sche seyd, "Margarete."
                                
                                  He seyd, "yff thow be boryn fre,
                                
                                  For-soth my leman thow xall be,
                                
                                  I wyll haue the to my wyffe,
                                  Line 138 
                                
                                  To leue yn joy all thy lyffe,
                                
                                  Goolde and reches I wyll þe ȝyffe,
                                
                                  All the wyll that thow may leve."
                                
                                  Sche seyd to hym a-non than,
                                  Line 142 
                                
                                  "I wyll haue non erdely man,
                                
                                  But for the love of Cryst alone,
                                
                                  I wyll be baptysyd yn a fonte stone;
                                
                                  For sothe I wyll hym neuer foresake,
                                  Line 146 
                                
                                  For non erdyly man to take."
                                
                                  Than a-non to hyre he seyd,
                                
                                  "We ded Jesus Cryst to deth,
                                
                                  And ded hym streyn vp on þe rode,
                                  Line 150 
                                
                                  Tyll he swete watyr and blode,
                                
                                  And crownnyd hym with a crown of thorne; [MS. has throne.] 
                                
                                  Yf thow leve on hym thow arte for-lorne."
                                
                                  To hym sche seyd a-non ryth,
                                  Line 154 
                                
                                  "Syre, he ys a lord of myth,
                                
                                  And deyed on crosse for all man-kynd,
                                
                                  For that we schull haue hym yn mynde.
                                
                                  He rosse from deth and to helle wente
                                  Line 158 
                                
                                  The fyndys powre for to schente,
                                
                                  And many sowllys he fete owte there,
                                
                                  That long yn peynys were."
                                
                                  To stryve with hyre he fond no bote,
                                  Line 162 
                                
                                  But dede hyre bynddyn hand and ffote.
                                
                                  And keste hyre yn presun strong, [folio 41b] 
                                
                                  For to ouer-cume hyre with worng.

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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 112
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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