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,

Signs of Death.

[Printed in Rel. Ant., v. 1, p. 64-5. See p. 249-50 of this Text.]

Alle his frendes he shal beo loþ, [folio 121] And helud shal ben wiþ a cloþ, Hyse eres shullen dewen, & his eyen shullen dymmen, Line 4 & his nese shal sharpen, & his skyn shal starken, & his hew shal falewen, & his tonge shal stameren, oþer famelen, Line 8 & his lippes shulle bliken, & his hondes shulle quaken, & his teþ shulle Ratelen, & his þrote shal Rotelen, Line 12 & his feet shullen streken, & his herte shal breken; & of al þis wordles b[l]isse, ne woldy ȝeue a pese iwis. Line 16 þou þat art so proud, Ne shalt þou haue bote a clout.