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,

Love Christ who Loves Thee.

                                  
                                    Leorne to loue, as ich loue þe; [folio 135b] 
                                  
                                    On alle my lymës þou mith seo
                                  
                                    Hou sore ich quake for colde;
                                    Line 3 
                                  
                                    For þe ich soffre muche colde & wo;
                                  
                                    Loue me wel, and nomo;
                                  
                                    To þe i take and holde.
                                    Line 6

Et Regina mater sua nichil habuit vnde posset eum induere; ideo dixit sibi:—

(The Virgin's Song to her Baby Christ.)

(1)

                                      Iesu, swetë sonë dere! [folio 135b] 
                                    
                                      On porful bed, list þou here,
                                    
                                      And þat me greueþ sore;
                                      Line 3 
                                    
                                      For þi cradel is ase a bere,
                                    
                                      Oxe and assë beþ þi fere;
                                    
                                      Weope ich mai þar-fore.
                                      Line 6

(2)

                                      Iesu, swete, beo noth wroþ
                                    
                                      Þou ich nabbë clout ne cloþ
                                    
                                      Þe on for to folde,
                                      Line 9 
                                    
                                      Þe on to foldë ne to wrappe;
                                    
                                      For ich nabbë clout ne lappe;
                                    
                                      Bote ley þou þi fet to my pappe,
                                    
                                      And wite þe from þe colde.
                                      Line 13

The Vanity of this Life.

                                    
                                      Þe lif of þis world [folio 136b] 
                                    
                                      Ys Reuled wiþ wynd.
                                    
                                      Wepinge, derknesse, ['derknesse' probably for 'drednesse.' The Latin has Flatum, Fletum, Motum, Metum.]  a[n]d steriynge;
                                    
                                      Wiþ wind we blowen,
                                      Line 4 
                                    
                                      Wiþ wind we lassun.

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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 255
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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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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