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,

                                  
                                    Wiþ weopinge we comen,
                                  
                                    Wiþ weopinge we passun.
                                  
                                    Wiþ steriinge we byginnen,
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                                    Wiþ steriinge we enden;
                                  
                                    Wiþ drede we dwellen,
                                  
                                    Wiþ drede we wenden.

Man made God's Brother.

                                    
                                      Þis timë man haþ ouercome [folio 138b] 
                                    
                                      Þe fend, and Robbed helle;
                                    
                                      Lokë þat, on his seruise,
                                    
                                      Lenge þat þou ne dwelle;
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                                      Þis time man is mad kniȝth
                                    
                                      And shuppare ouer alle þinge;
                                    
                                      Loke, on non erliche þinge
                                    
                                      Þou settë þyn endinge;
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                                      For now is erlich man bicome
                                    
                                      Godës owene broþer;
                                    
                                      Loke, man, on nonë wyse
                                    
                                      Þou chaunge for non oþer.
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In Weal think of Woe.

                                    
                                      In die bonorum non inmemor sis malorum. [folio 139b] 
                                    
                                      yn time of wele þenke on þi wo.
                                    
                                      for þe wele of þis world wole sone go.

Four Evils.

. . & facit quatuor mala vbi regnant secundum quod [folio 140b] componitur ex quatuor literis. P. R. E. D. Vnde Anglice:

Anglice:

Hey Priuetȝ gritliche;

Hey Robbetȝ holliche:

Hey Endetȝ shameliche:

Hey Draweþ dredfulliche.

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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 256
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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Full citation: "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 May 14, 2025.

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