Brook 3; Ker 28
Ichot a burde in a bour ase beryl so bryht
Line 001
ase saphyr in seluer semly on syht
Line 002
ase iaspe þe gentil þat lemeþ wiþ lyht
Line 003
ase gernet in golde & ruby wel ryht
Line 004
ase onycle he ys on yholden on hyht
Line 005
ase diamaund þe dere in day when he is dyht
Line 006
he is coral ycud wiþ cayser ant knyht
Line 007
ase emeraude amorewen þis may haueþ myht
Line 008
þe myht of þe margarite haueþ þis mai mere
Line 009
For charbocle ich hire chos bi chyn & by chere
Line 010
hire rode is ase rose þat red is on rys
Line 011
wiþ lilye white leres lossum he is
Line 012
þe primerole he passeþ paruenke of pris
Line 013
wiþ alisaundre þareto ache & anys
Line 014
coynte ase columbine such hire cunde ys
Line 015
glad vnder gore in gro & in grys
Line 016
description
Page 32
Line 016
he is blosme opon bleo brihtest vnder bis
Line 017
wiþ celydoyne ant sauge ase þou þiself sys
Line 018
þat syht vpon þat semly to blis he is broht
Line 019
he is solsecle to sauue ys forsoht
Line 020
he is papeiai in pyn þat beteþ me my bale
Line 021
to trewe tortle in a tour y telle þe mi tale
Line 022
he is þrustle þryuen in þro þat singeþ in sale
Line 023
þe wilde laueroc ant wolc & þe wodewale
Line 024
he is faucoun in friht dernest in dale
Line 025
ant wiþ eueruch a gome gladest in gale
Line 026
From weye he is wisist in to wyrhale
Line 027
hire nome is in a:note of þe nyhtegale
Line 028
In annote is hire nome nempneþ hit non
Line 029
whose ryht redeþ roune to Johon.
Line 030
muge he is ant mondrake þouh miht of þe mone
Line 031
trewe triacle ytold wiþ tonges in trone
Line 032
such licoris mai leche from lyne to lone
Line 033
such sucre mon secheþ þat saueþ men sone
Line 034
bliþe yblessed of crist þat bayeþ me mi bone
Line 035
when derne dede is in dayne derne are done
Line 036
ase g�o�myl in g�e�ue grene is þe grone
Line 037
ase quibibe & comyn cud is in crone
Line 038
Cud comyn in court canel in cofre
Line 039
wiþ gyngyure & sedewale & þe gylofre
Line 040
he is medierne of miht mercie of mede
Line 041
Rekene ase regnas resoun to rede
Line 042
Trewe ase tegeu in tour ase wyrwein in wede
Line 043
baldore þen byrne þat of þe bor bede
Line 044
Ase Wylcadoun he is wys dohty of dede
Line 045
Feyrore þen floyres folkes to fede
Line 046
Cud ase cradoc in court carf þe brede
Line 047
hendore þen hilde þat haueþ me to hede
Line 048
he haueþ me to hede þis hendy anon
Line 049
gentil ase ionas heo ioyeþ wiþ Ion
Line 050