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.

                                
                                  And othyr thyngges as I rede.
                                  Line 188 
                                
                                  How-so haue moste of the see,
                                
                                  Internall ["Leof to trauayle," Vernon; "Euer in trauel," Cotton. The Brome copyist evidently made a mistake.]  he schall be,
                                
                                  And myche covetynge love and lede,
                                
                                  And that schall faylyne them at þer moste nede.
                                  Line 192 
                                
                                  Yt faryt be all thys wardly good,
                                
                                  As be and ebbe and be a flood;
                                  Line 194 
                                
                                  [Now hit is, nou hit nis—
                                
                                  þenk no mon þeron, i-wis.] [Supplied from Vernon. Lines 193-196 are wanting in Cotton.] 
                                  Line 196 
                                
                                  How so hath of þe wynd moste myth,
                                  Line 201 
                                
                                  Be grete resun xall be lyth,
                                
                                  Fekyll of herte and yke of thowth,
                                
                                  And speke mych yt helppe nowth.
                                  Line 204 
                                
                                  How-so haue of the clowddys foysun,
                                  Line 197 
                                
                                  He schall be wysse be resun,
                                
                                  And be ware yn word and dede,
                                
                                  And yn othyr thyngges, as I rede.
                                  Line 200 
                                
                                  How-so hath of the sunne pleynty
                                  Line 205 
                                
                                  Hote and hasty he schall be,
                                
                                  And a man full of myth,
                                
                                  And be resun he schall be lyth.
                                  Line 208 
                                
                                  How-so be of the ston be moste wroth,
                                
                                  He schall be stedfaste yn word and thowth,
                                
                                  And to termyn [And to termyn]. Vernon has "In his herte;" Cotton., "And in trauayle."]  troste and trew,
                                
                                  And be resun pale of hewe. [folio 8a] 
                                  Line 212 
                                
                                  How-so have moste of the holy goste,
                                
                                  He schall haue yn hys herte moste
                                
                                  Good thowtes, good worddes, and good dede,
                                
                                  The poore to cloth and to fede,
                                  Line 216 
                                
                                  And love wyll god and holy chyrch,

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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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