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.

                                
                                  To passe hys wey and let hyr a-bye.
                                
                                  And schortly hys tale to telle,
                                
                                  He wente from þat damselle,
                                  Line 104 
                                
                                  And cam [MS. has "to cam," cam being interlined in the wrong place.]  to Olybryus þe kynge
                                
                                  And told hym all þat tydynge,
                                  Line 106 
                                
                                  That sche wod not hym cum to; [Line 107 in Ashmole rymes with the two preceding lines, and l. 109 a is omitted.] 
                                
                                  For no thynge that they myth do,
                                
                                  But they [schuld] with hyr stryffe,
                                
                                  And hyr thr[e]te vp-on hyr lyue.
                                  Line 109a 
                                
                                  To Jesus cryste gan sche calle,
                                  Line 110 
                                
                                  That suffyrd deth for vs alle,
                                
                                  That he wold hyr defend,
                                
                                  Fro thow men that wer hynd,
                                  Line 113 
                                
                                  And be-sowth hym of hys grace,
                                
                                  Hyr to sokyr yn euery place,
                                
                                  And seyd, "lord, for thy love I wyll dey,
                                  Line 116 
                                
                                  And for-sake all thy werdely cumpany."
                                  Line 117 
                                
                                  Than spake syr Olybryus
                                
                                  On to his men he seyd thus,
                                
                                  "Off all the men that I haue here,
                                  Line 120 
                                
                                  That non of them can bryng hyr nere?
                                
                                  And they hyr to me bro[w]th,
                                
                                  Full sone I schud schonge hyr thowte;
                                
                                  Sche schud op-on my goddys be-lewe,
                                  Line 124 
                                
                                  Or ellys I schuld hyr full sore greve."
                                  Line 125 
                                
                                  They went a-ȝen to that mayde,
                                
                                  And on to hyr thus they seyd,
                                
                                  "Thow muste cume a-non with vs
                                  Line 128 
                                
                                  On to owre kynge syre Olybryus, [folio 41a] 
                                
                                  But thow cume with-owte stryffe
                                  Line 130 
                                
                                  We schall rew [I.e. reeve.]  the of þi lyffe."

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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 111
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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