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.

Bene debent ista exempla nos mouere ad opera [folio 145] caritatis, & eciam valor ipsius amoris qui habet con|diciones secundum quod ibi sunt quatuor litere, scilicet, L. O. V. E.

                                  
                                    Hit is Lawe þat sailleþ noth,
                                  
                                    Hit is Ouer al þat mai beo wrouȝth,
                                  
                                    Hit Werkeþ wonderliche,
                                  
                                    And Ernes ȝeueþ sikerliche.
                                    Line 4

Poverty.

Nota. non habuit ubi capud potuit reclinare, Mori|endo [folio 147b] ubi capud potuit tegere. Inde, bene potuit dicere 'pauper sum ego.' Istud exemplum debemus sequi propter quatuor que faciunt in possessore:

hit resteþ and hit quemeþ

hit richeþ and hit demeþ

Lechery.

Luxuria facit hec primo:

hit wasteþ [folio 148]

hit Fileþ.

hit wraþþeþ

hit bigileþ.

Chastity.

Castitas est:

A tresour of gret Richesse. [folio 149]

A vertue of douthtynesse,

And is a worsshipful Cloþinge

And an help of gret wynn[i]nge.

Inscriptions, p. 258-9, repeated.

(y and þ are the same.)

Þi wyckede dedis þe broute to care; bot is þe for-ȝoui; þou sinne no mare. [folio 152]

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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 260
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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