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,
The chylde she slowȝ & wyryede, [Be the necke the child she wriede.]And pryuely she hit [And a-none the childe she] byryede.Þer [Thus] was she combred yn a carefull case,And vnshryuen þer-of she was; [She shewed neuer shryfte þerof, alas!]Line 24 She ne tolde no [She tolde neuer] preste her priuyte,For she wolde holy holden be. [L. transposes this and the line above, and adds,
Alle folke were fayne of hire name,So holy she was holdene, and of gode fame.
Twyes]Efte sones she fell in [hir felle the] þe same caseRyȝth as beforn her be-tydde [as hit be-forne] was.Line 28 For she was comen of hyȝ parage, [price]Of gentyll [Riche] kynne & worþy [gentille] lynage; [L. adds,
Hir sonne was Gregory the pope;Men helden hir holy with alle her hope.
]Þerfore she wolde not her synne [durste she no shryft] shewe,Nor yn schryfte hit be [lest be schreft hir case were] knowe, [L. adds,
So shame maketh men to hide ther shryffte,And lese the grace of god alle-myght,And sethen to lyve synfully,And fallen to dethe sodeynly.
]Line 32 And so here [This womans] dedes were not a-spyed;But afturwarde sodenly [And sothely afterward] she dyed.When she was seyn so sodenly [softly] dye,Men hoped she was yn heuen hye; [fulle hie]Line 36 They helde her [helden hire] so holy & deuowte,Þat of here deth þey made [men had] no dowte,But sykurly men wende y-wys [wenden witterly al to wysse]Þat she was worþy [sett in] heuen blys.Line 40 Then aftur with-Inne a shorte [Ther after. . .litelle] tyme, [folio 87:1] Vpon a day soone aftyr pryme,The pope, as he at his massë [Her Sonne the pope at the mas] stode,Vpon his modur he hadde þowȝt [And of his moder hee trowed but] goode,Line 44 Prayng to god with conciens clere
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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,
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Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited,
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"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,." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ant9912.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.
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