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,

                                
                                  Ther dwellyd two breþeren in a [þe]  towne,
                                
                                  By on Fadir and moder goten and borne, [getyne] 
                                
                                  Squiers thei were of gret Renowne,
                                  Line 156 
                                
                                   [This line follows line 154 in MS. Ashmole.] As the story tell [tellys]  me by-forne.
                                
                                  The elder broþer had a wyfe,
                                
                                  The fairest woman in any [all þat]  londe,
                                
                                  And yett he [Omitted.]  vsid a cursid lyfe,
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  And brought his [hyre]  soule in bitter bonde;
                                
                                  He Rought not whate woman he toke,
                                
                                  So litell he sett by his spoushode, [wyffe] 
                                
                                  To [Omitted.]  the devill caught him in his [A]  croke,
                                  Line 164 
                                
                                  And with grete myschefe marked his mede. [And marked his mede with, etc.] 
                                
                                  Thes two breþeren vpon a daye
                                
                                  With Enmyse were slayne in fight;
                                
                                  The elder to hellë [helle he]  toke the waye,
                                  Line 168 
                                
                                  The yonger to paradicë bright; [ryȝht] 
                                
                                  And this was knowen in sothefastnes; [sothnes] 
                                
                                  Herken, [Herkyns]  sires, whate y will [schall]  saye!
                                
                                  Take gode hede bothe more and lasse,
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  For godis loue ber this [this tale]  a-waye!
                                
                                  The elder broþer hade a Sonne to [a]  clerke,
                                
                                  Well of fyftene wynter of age; [fully xv ȝere of Age] 
                                
                                  He was wyse & [ryȝht]  holy in [in hys]  worke,
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  To [Tho]  hym shulde falle the Eritage.
                                
                                  For his Fader he made grete mone,
                                
                                  As fallis a gode childe euer [sone]  of kynde;
                                
                                  Eiche [Euery]  nyght to his Fadir grave wolde he gone,
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  To [For to]  haue his soule in Speciall mynde. [in minde] 
                                
                                  Thus he prayed bothe day and nyght
                                
                                  To god and to his modir dere,
                                
                                  Off his Fadyr to haue a Sight,
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  To wytt [Omitted.]  in whate place that he [he in]  were.

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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 128
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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