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,

Ware Bear's Play!

war þe from þe bere plei auantir / last he bite; for selde he stintit of his pley, bot yif he bite or smite.

The Dragon.

I wile ȝou alle swelewe wit-outin oni both: dot [bot?] some wile y saue, & some wile y noth.

Fortune's Wheel.

                                    
                                      þou most fort, wit wele or wo,
                                    
                                      be þou lef, oþer be [MS. bo]  þou lot,
                                    
                                      forto gon vp on þis wel
                                    
                                      þat eueremore aboutë got.
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                                      ȝif þou be cointë, þou ssalt liue:
                                    
                                      & ellis dedis dint i ssal þe ȝiue.
                                    
                                      vel sic
                                    
                                      ȝif þou go cointeli on þis wel,
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                                      þou ssalt liue eueremore:
                                    
                                      bot ȝif þou falle, & go amis,
                                    
                                      wit dulful det i wonde þe sore.

Foolish Love.

                                    
                                      I am a fol, i can no god:
                                    
                                      ho þat me louit, hi halde him wod;
                                    
                                      .I. brennë hote, I smitë sore, [folio 163b] 
                                    
                                      ho þat me louit ssal þe no more.
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                                      dredful det out of me sprong,
                                    
                                      fo[r] i am welle of wo:
                                    
                                      I slou a wis king, fair & strong;
                                    
                                      & ȝit .i. ssal sle mo.

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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 266
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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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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