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.

                                
                                  And toke with hym speyndyne,
                                
                                  For to kepe that mayd ȝyngne.
                                  Line 40 
                                
                                  The noryce hyr kepte fore soth yn dede,
                                
                                  And euer cheryste hyre yn hyre nede;
                                
                                  Sche waxyd fayere and comly of chere,
                                
                                  And of colowre fayer and clere.
                                  Line 44 
                                
                                  All hyre lovyd yn that cuntre,
                                
                                  Both olde and ȝyng þat hyre myth se.
                                
                                  Whan sche waxyd more yn age,
                                
                                  And had vndyr-standyng and k[n]owlage,
                                  Line 48 
                                
                                  [Sche toke here to crystys lore],
                                
                                  And be-leuyd on hem euer more;
                                  Line 50 
                                
                                  To the fader and sune and the holy goste,
                                  Line 50a 
                                
                                  That ys kyng and lord of mytys moste,
                                  Line 50b 
                                
                                  That heuyne and erth all wroght,
                                  Line 50c 
                                
                                  To hym sche be-toke all hyr thowght.
                                  Line 50d 
                                
                                  The noryce that keppe hyr fro dysspeyere,
                                  Line 51 
                                
                                  Had vij chyldryn that wer fayere,
                                
                                  And wyll sche kepet hyr chyldryn vij,
                                
                                  The viij was Margarete crystes mayd of heuene.
                                  Line 54 
                                
                                  Talys she gowd will tell
                                
                                  Bothe of heuyne and of hell,
                                
                                  And how they suffyryd mertyrdhum,
                                  Line 59 
                                
                                  Both Lawrens and Stevone,
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  And wat they xulld haue to þer mede,
                                  Line 57 
                                
                                  As they deseruyd yn ther dede;
                                  Line 58 
                                
                                  And of other seyntes many moo,
                                
                                  How they syffyryd wyll and woo,
                                
                                  And how thye dede ther mertydam take,
                                
                                  All for Jesus crystes owyne sake.
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  Off many a seynth sche tolde þe lyffe, [folio 40a] 
                                
                                  Bothe to chyld, man, and wyffe.
                                
                                  Whan she was xv ȝere olde
                                
                                  Sche wos a fayer mayd and a bold,
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  Hyr moder hyr sette for to kepe

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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 109
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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