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.

                                
                                  Owte of the dore comme a grete flame;
                                
                                  There was so mych stynke [MS. has "skynte."]  and smeke,
                                
                                  Yt wold a made an heyll man seke.
                                
                                  The knyth stynted and yer-with stod,
                                  Line B55 
                                
                                  For þat stynke he was nere wod,
                                
                                  The fyndys turnyd a-geyne,
                                
                                  And gresely spake to syre Howyne
                                
                                  "Why goste þou so faste and þou halte?
                                
                                  Wyll þou wyll, forth thow xalte.
                                  Line B60 
                                
                                  Syst thow now ȝyn grete gatys?
                                
                                  Ther byn owyr bate fatys,
                                
                                  Ther syth owre maystyr and owre kynge,
                                
                                  He ys full glad of thy comynge;
                                
                                  Thow seruyst hyme full wyll at home,
                                  Line B65 
                                
                                  He ys woll glad yat thou arte cumme;
                                
                                  Syste thow thy home, wyll þou soo,
                                
                                  Or thow wylte a-geyne goo
                                
                                  A-geyne to þe gatys of Regelys, [The MS. has relegys: this form must be a mistake of the scribe, as the above reading is required by the ryme; it is also that found in line 88 b. The name of the abbey does not occur in the Cotton MS. Regles is the name in the second English version (Auchinleck MS.), see Englische Studien, i. p. 100. No name is mentioned in the first version.] 
                                
                                  Than may þou seyn þou hath byn at þe develys."
                                  Line B70 
                                
                                  "Nay," seyd the knyth, "that wyll I nowte,
                                
                                  That xall neuer cume yn my thowte,
                                
                                  God hath holpe me hethyr be-fore,
                                
                                  And ȝyt I hope he wyll do more."
                                
                                  As they hadyn hym ferder inne
                                  Line B75 
                                
                                  Ther he sawe woll mykyll on-wyn,
                                
                                  As he lokyd hym be-syde,
                                  Line 369 
                                
                                  He sey ther pyttys many and wyde,
                                
                                  Thykker myth they not byn,
                                
                                  All but a fote them be-twyn.

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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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