ADAM DAVY'S FIVE DREAMS ABOUT EDWARD II. [Laud MS. 622 (end of the 14th cent.), leaf 26, back.]
TO oure lorde Iesu crist in heuene,
Ich to-day shewe myne sweuene,
þat ich mette in one niȝth,
Of a kniȝth of mychel miȝth:
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His name is ihote sir Edward þe kyng,
Prince of Wales [Compare
"Nou is Edward of CarnarvonKing of Engelond al aplyht",in "The Elegy on the Death of Edw. I", from Harl. 2253, leaf 73, in Mr Thos. Wright's Political Songs, for the Camden Society, 1839, p. 249. Edw. III was never created Prince of Wales. The Black Prince was, but was never king.] , Engelonde þe faire þing. Me mette þat he was armed wel, Boþe wiþ yrne & wiþ stel; Line 8 And on his helme þat was of stel, A Coroune of gold bicom hym wel. Bifore the shryne of seint Edward he stood, Myd glad chere, & mylde of mood, Line 12 Mid two kniȝttes armed on eiþer side, þat he ne miȝth þennes goo ne ride. hetilich [A.S. hetelice, hatefully, hotly.] hij leiden hym vpon, Als hij miȝtten myd swerd don. Line 16 He stood þere wel swiþe stille, And þoled al-to-gedres her wille;
