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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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,
1866, re-edited 1903.
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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 23, 2025.

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The Ills of our Time.

Charite, chaste, pite, arn waxin al colde; Couetise, Lust, & maistrie, arn be-comin al bolde; [folio 162] Consel, god acord, & wedloc ben nou noþing of tolde. Line 3

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Line 3 Stronge, trewe, & corteis, kepte þe land; Bot now feynte, false, folis, it han vndir hand; Þeues, liers & fowlwimmen boldeli ferth stand. Line 6 Vnder dercnesse, darket lit of stedefastnesse. [folio 162b] vnder sleuþe, darkit þe loue of holinesse. For faute of rit domusman, þe lauwe slepit of ritwisnesse. Line 9 wif, wille, and richesse, han þe maistrie ta[ke]; vertu, godede, & almisdede, arn al for-sake; Line 11 Oker, lieyng, & wantonesse, mickel serwe make.
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