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,

Anulum in quo sic insertum erat:

Noble þou art þat were a-file. be war be onis þat nout þe gile. [See p. 261.]

Mediator dedit ei tercium anulum in quo sic scribe|batur:

Wou michel, ant wat, & werfore. wat I haue þoled for loue of þe.

Germanus proprius sibi dedit quartum anulum in quo sic erat scriptum:

I am þi broþer, be nout in wer; be nout agast to come me ner; I am þi broþer, be nout agast; be hende, & trewe, & stedëfast.

A sponso proprio dabatur sibi sigillum vnum per quod hereditas sibi assecurabatur in quo sic:

Here I take þe to my liue; tac þou non oþer to terme of liue. Here I take þe to my spouse; & ȝiue þe boþë land & house.

The Signs of Faithful Love.

Nam quatuor sunt signa fidelis Amoris, que ostendit [folio 144b] Christus, in quibus nobis exemplum reliquit, videlicet,

On word [and] ȝiuinge, On werke and soffringe.

Christ Comes.

                                    
                                      Wat is he þis þat comet so brith [folio 153b] 
                                    
                                      Wit blodi cloþes al be-dith?
                                    
                                      respondentes superiores dixerunt:
                                    
                                      "He is boþe god and man:
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                                      swilc ne sawe neuere nan.
                                    
                                      for adamis sinne he suffrede ded.
                                    
                                      & þerfore is his robe so red."

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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 259
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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