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 with hyr wympyll bownd hym faste.
                                  
                                    In hys neke sche sete hyre foote,
                                    Line 338 
                                  
                                    To stryve with hyre he fond non bote,
                                  
                                    To hym sche seyd, "I cvnger the [folio 44a] 
                                  
                                    That wat thow arte thow tell me,
                                  
                                    For thow arte so lothely a thyng,
                                    Line 342 
                                  
                                    Wat thow arte I wyll haue wetyng,
                                  
                                    For beste sey I neuer non
                                  
                                    So lothely for to loke vp-on."
                                  
                                    He seyd, "for thy lordys sake,
                                    Line 346 
                                  
                                    Fro my neke thy foote thow take,
                                  
                                    I haue gonne wyd be watyr and be lond,
                                  
                                    Ȝyte wos I neuer so sore bownd;
                                  
                                    My rythe name hyth Belgys,
                                    Line 350 
                                  
                                    For to lye non a-vayle ys,
                                  
                                    My broder hyth Resun that þou slew,
                                  
                                    In the warld we ded sorow i-now.
                                  
                                    Brostyn and ded ys my broder,
                                    Line 354 
                                  
                                    And thow haste ouer-cume me, I sey no nother.
                                  
                                    Whan we wer both to-geder
                                  
                                    We made the sone to sle the fader,
                                  
                                    We stroyed the pepyll day and nyth,
                                    Line 358 
                                  
                                    And ded all the sorow that we myth.
                                  
                                    In a Dragonys wyce we wer sent to the,
                                  
                                    To spylle thy wyt and make þe wod to be.
                                  
                                    The kynge Syr Olybryus
                                    Line 362 
                                  
                                    In thys lekenes sente to þe vs
                                  
                                    For to stroye thy fayre body
                                  
                                    With hys crafte of negramency."
                                  
                                    . . . . .

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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 118
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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