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.

                                
                                  Off a vyrgyn fayer and swete,
                                
                                  Hyr name wos Margarete.
                                
                                  Hyr fader wos a nobyll clarke,
                                
                                  And a man that cowde myche warke,
                                  Line 8 
                                
                                  And a prynce of heye degre,
                                
                                  No wordyer myth ther be.
                                
                                  In Antyoch he had a wyffe
                                
                                  That wos an hethen woman all hyre lyve,
                                  Line 12 
                                
                                  Hyr fader wos of grete powere,
                                
                                  And of all that cuntre governowre.
                                
                                  False he was of hys lay,
                                
                                  A-ȝens goddes lawys, þe soth to sey.
                                  Line 16 
                                
                                  Teodyus [Ashmole has Theodosyus.]  wos hys name,
                                
                                  A nobyll man of grete fame.
                                
                                  Hyr fader yt knew long be-fore
                                
                                  That a dowter he xuld haue bore,
                                  Line 20 
                                
                                  As the wrytyng hym told,
                                
                                  That wan sche wax old
                                
                                  That Crysteyn sche wyll be,
                                
                                  And be-leve vpon þe Trynyte,
                                  Line 24 
                                
                                  Vp-on Jesus þat vs bowth
                                
                                  And þat all þe ward wroth.
                                
                                  He comawndyd long be-fore,
                                
                                  That a-non as sche wos bore,
                                  Line 28 
                                
                                  To deth sche schuld be browght,
                                
                                  In wat wysse he not rowth.
                                
                                  And hyre moder that hyre bare,
                                
                                  Made fore hyr heuy chyre,
                                  Line 32 
                                
                                  And a-non as sche was borne
                                
                                  Sche be-thowte hyre be-forne,
                                
                                  In to Aȝy sche hyr sent, [folio 39b] 
                                
                                  A messanger forth with hyre went
                                  Line 36 
                                
                                  To a noryce that was there,
                                
                                  And bad hym put yt to hyre to lere,

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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 108
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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