A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

                                
                                  Had row to-gedyr all at onys.
                                
                                  In that wedyr so yt faryde, [Cotton, ll. 263, 264, "For all pe worlde so hit ferde And perto a lowde crye he herde."] 
                                
                                  Yt made syre Howyn sore a-ferde,
                                
                                  And he had nowth be-tawte be-fore,
                                  Line 265 
                                
                                  He had be rewyd fore euer more.
                                
                                  Flyen myth he nowt, he muste a byd, [folio 32a] 
                                
                                  They com yn on euer syyd,
                                
                                  Wykyd gostes owte of helle,
                                
                                  Ther may corage hym full telle. [Cotton, "So mony, pat no tonge myȝte telle."] 
                                  Line 270 
                                
                                   [Ll. 271-274 much altered.] Full þe howsys, rowys be rowys,
                                
                                  And many stodyn with owte þe wowys,
                                
                                  Summe fyndys gernyd and summe made a mowe,
                                
                                  Syre Howyn wos a-ferd, I trowe;
                                
                                  And summe fyndes þat stode hym by,
                                  Line 275 
                                
                                  Seydyn to hym, all on hey,
                                
                                  "Thow haste wyll done þat þou cum here,
                                
                                  Thus be-tyme to be owre fere;
                                
                                  Oþer cum not tyll they be dede,
                                
                                  But thow haste a woll better rede;
                                  Line 280 
                                
                                  Thow comyst hethyr to do penawns
                                
                                  And with vs þu xalte lede the dawns.
                                
                                  Thow seruyd vs many a day,
                                
                                  We xall the ȝyldyth yf we may.
                                
                                  Thow hast be to vs a woll good knawe, [Cotton, "All py kynne shall pe not saue."] 
                                  Line 286 
                                
                                  As þou hast seruyd thow schallte haue.
                                  Line 285 
                                
                                  But neuer þe lesse, wyll þou harte hynd,
                                
                                  Yf þou wylte a-geyn wynd,
                                
                                  And gone and leuyn as þou haste down
                                
                                  We xall þe sprer, [Sprer.] Cotton, "Spare."]  tyll eft sunne;

                                  Line 290

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Title: A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.
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Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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