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.

                                
                                  Tyll the redde bloode fell downe,
                                
                                  To the fote from the crowne,
                                
                                  Tyll they wente sche had be dede,
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                                  So faste on hyr they had leyde.
                                
                                  Than seyd Olybrys, ther he stode, [folio 42a] 
                                
                                  "Margarete, thynkys thow thys good,
                                
                                  Be-leve on my lord and be my wyffe,
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                                  And I wyll no more with the stryffe.
                                
                                  Haue mercy of thy fayere fleysse,
                                
                                  And on thy skyne that ys so nesse."
                                
                                  To Jesus cryst sche cryed than,
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                                  That deyd fore the love of man,
                                
                                  That of a vyrgyne wos borne,
                                
                                  For man-kynd schull note be fore-lorn,—
                                
                                  "Thys peynys that I suffur and yn swy[n]ke
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                                  Be full swete to me, as me thynke,
                                
                                  All the peynys that I here dryve
                                
                                  Be swetter to me than ony thyng a-lyve."
                                
                                  Olybryus seyd to hys servantys thoo,
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                                  "Sche gyffe no-thyng of all thys woo,
                                
                                  For all the peynys that I hyr gyffe
                                
                                  Sche woll not on owre goddys be-leve."
                                
                                  He bad hys servantys euery-chone,
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                                  That they xuld turment hyre a-non.
                                
                                  The servantes ded as he them bad,
                                
                                  Lytyll mercy on hyre they hade,
                                
                                  With there naylys they gan hyre fleysse draw,
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                                  Lyke as howndys had hyre knaw.
                                
                                  Also hyre eyne that wer so bryth,
                                
                                  They put them owte and marryd hyre syth,
                                
                                  They ded hyre myche peyn and woo;
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                                  They ded reue the skyn frome þe fleysse soo,
                                
                                  Many of the pepyll that were there,
                                
                                  In ther hartys were full sore,
                                
                                  And seyd to hyr standyn there,

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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 114
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
Subject terms: Commonplace-books

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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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