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.

ȝe dessyer and dare not tell, God be ȝour helpe and consell. Line 44
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ȝe that sysse and caterys [Sloane, querins.] haue in ye deysse, Let be ȝour thowtes, for they be nysse, ȝowr hart ys set in swyche a loue That ys no thyng for ȝour be-hove. Line 48
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ȝe that hath cast sysse cater and trey, ȝe be set in ryght good wey, Bere ȝow wyll and be of good cowmfort, For ȝe shall be lovyd and haue gret dyssort. Line 52
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Sysse cater and dwsse I tell ȝow tyte, That ȝour love hath ȝow in dysspyte, With draw ȝour hart and ryffe ȝow to pley, For no man can hold that wyll a-wey. Line 56
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He that hath cast cater, as, and sysse, ȝe be of wyt both ware and wysse, But be war of comberyng of synne, Thynke on the hyndyng or yt ye be gynne. Line 60
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ȝowr cast wosse sysse and dobyll trey; Fortewne fall not to ȝour pay, But yf ȝe wyll haue ȝour wyll All that ys yll, let yt be styll. Line 64
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ȝe that have sysse trey and dews cast, [folio 3a] Off a certyn thyng ȝe be agast, But loke ȝe be trew in ȝour entencion, And ȝe schall haue ȝour petyssyon. Line 68
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He that sys, trey, and as to hym takys, In hys werkes wysely he wakys, For he schall dessyer no thynge, That he nowt schall spede of hys askynge. Line 72
(622) [The figures in ( ) are supplied by me.]
ȝe that haue sys, dewes, and too, ȝe be a ffolle, go were ȝe goo; ȝe coveyt of non lefful thyng, ȝe schall not spede of your askyng. Line 76
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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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