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.

                                
                                  [When he was nyȝ þer at
                                  Line 467 
                                
                                  Agayne hym openede a fayr ȝate
                                
                                  Full craftyly for þe nones,
                                
                                  Of metall and of presyous stones],
                                
                                  Owte of þe gate cam a smell,
                                  Line 471 
                                
                                  All-most for yoy dow he fell,
                                
                                  Thow all þe flowyre and all þe erbery, [Cotton, 473 and 474: "As per hadde ben all maner of floures, Such was pat swete sauoures."] 
                                
                                  And all the wardly spycery
                                
                                  Yt myth not smell be a hundre fold,
                                
                                  To þat swetnes myth be tolde.
                                  Line 476 
                                
                                  Than was he so mery and so lyt
                                
                                  Off that savor and that syth,
                                
                                  That all þe peynys he had yn ben,
                                  Line 479 
                                
                                  And all þe sorow he had syn,
                                  Line 480 
                                
                                  All was for-ȝete yn hys thowth,
                                
                                  Hym thowth yt grevyd hym noth.
                                
                                  As he stod he was woll fayne,
                                
                                  Owth of the gate cam hym a-geyne
                                
                                  And a woll fayer proseyssun [folio 36a] 
                                  Line 485 
                                
                                  Off euery man of relygyoun;
                                
                                  Fayer vestemens they haddyne vp-one,
                                
                                  Swech sawe he neuer none.
                                
                                  Woll mych joy yt was to see
                                
                                  Boschoppys yn hyr dygnyte,
                                  Line 490 
                                
                                  And other maysterys þer sey he, [Cotton, "Ilkone wente opur be and be."] 
                                
                                  Eche man yn hys degre.
                                
                                  He say ther Monkys and Schanonys,
                                
                                  And fryerys with ther brode [Brode.] Cotton, "newe shauen."]  crownys,
                                
                                  And ermytys them a-monge,
                                  Line 495 
                                
                                  And nonnys with ther mery songys,
                                
                                  Personys, prystys, and vekerys,

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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.
Canvas: Page 100
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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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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