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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"yff þou yeve for my love A ferthyng, thowe doest hit with An hevy harte; In almys dar þou Do nothyng for Drede þou fallë in pouerte, Line 276 In wordis and in vayne spekyng, what-euer þou wastyst, mery þou arte; Of suche I wole haue Rekenyng; A Domys day þou shalt not starte. Line 280
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"than shalt þou yeve A-counte full strayte, howe thowe come by thy goode, eche dele, whedur with trouthë or Dyssayte, And howe þou spendyst hit, evyll or wele. Line 284 Noone odyr grace than afftyr wayte: As þou haste wrought, so shalt þou fele. what shall than prophyte þi gowne purfylled? Poundes and markes of the I peele. Line 288
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"A clene conscyence shall þat daye More prophyte be, & more sett bye, than all thy muke and alle þy moneye that euer was, or shall be vndyr þe skye. Line 292 than wole nat helpë plete nor playe, for ar Right-wole than Deme shall I; And there-for, whylë þat þou may, Make Amendis or þou dye." Line 296
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(Man's Fourth Answer.)
"I wote wele, lorde, frome yere to yere full gretely grevyd the, I have; that I wete wele; nor, þy mercy were, My modyrs wombe hade be my grave. Line 300 for what profyttythe my levyng here But þou wolt affter-warde me save? But Ihesu, as þou boughttest me dere, Leve nat my soulë in hellë Cave! Line 304
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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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