Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,

(54)

A performyd towre & a baare cofyr make, ovyr late, the greate bilder wyse.

(55)

Sel thyne howce to hym [folio 64b:2] that wyll geue moste.

(56)

Bettir it is to suffyr greate hungyr than sale of patrymonye.

(57)

Selle no parte of thyne heritage vnto thy bettyr, but for lesse pryce selle yt to thy subiecte.

(58)

What is vsure, but venyme of patrymonye, and a lawfull thefe that tellyth ys entent.

(59)

By right nought with felawshippe of thyne bettyr.

(60)

Suffyr patiently thy power felowshippe, & coople the not to the strawnger.

(61)

Evyr-lastyng god oonely ys sobyr yn plente & scarsnes of wynes.

(62)

Drunkeshippe doyth ryght nought evynly, but whan yt ovyrthroughith.

(63)

Yf thow felyst stronge wynes, fle felyshippe: seke slepe rathir than talkyng.

(64)

The drunke man with wordys accusith his owne excesse.

(65)

It besemyth not a yonge man to be A tasteoure of wynes.

(66)

Fle & estchue A leche that is drunkelewe. [Nota.]

(67)

Be ware of that leche which by the woulde take experyens howe he myght hele a-nothir.

(68)

Smale whelpes, leeve to ladyse & clerkys. [See Wyclif, E.E.T.S., 1880, p. 12.]

(69)

Waker howndes been profitable.

(70)

Howndes of venery coste more then they aveyle.

(71)

Make not thy sonne, stuarde of thy goodys.

(72)

Say not in thy selfe, 'what a-vaylith all doctryne, yf fortune lyste not to favoure?' I haue seene folys leevyng contyngence, accuse them-selfe infortunat, of whom the wyse man seledom complaynith.

(73)

Wyse laboure & myshappe seldom mete to-gyder, but yet sluggednes & myshappe be seldome dyssevyrde.

(74)

The slugge lokyth to be holpe [folio 65] of god that commawndyth men to waake in the worlde.

(75)

Peyse the eese of thyne expence with the laboure of thy getynge.

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Title: Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,
Author: Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
Canvas: Page 60
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited,; 1866, re-edited 1903.
Subject terms: English poetry

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