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.

                                
                                  So mykyll on hem selfe they troste,
                                
                                  Wher þey be cum, no man woste.
                                
                                  I rede the for they devociun
                                  Line 145 
                                
                                  Thow take abyth of relygiun
                                
                                  So myth thow both nythe and day, [Cotton, ll. 147 and 148—"And ȝyf pu wylt py synne lete In pys wyse may pu heuen gete."] 
                                
                                  Serue god wyll to pay."
                                
                                  ["Syr," he sayde, "y þe pray,]
                                
                                  ȝefe me lefe to gon my wey!
                                  Line 150 
                                
                                  I hope ryth wyll to cum and wynde,
                                
                                  Throw goddes grace yt ys so hynde."
                                
                                  The boschoppe geffe hym leue thowe
                                
                                  A goddes name for to goo:
                                
                                  A-non he worthe hym a letter wyll,
                                  Line 155 
                                
                                  And selydyth with hys howyn sell.
                                
                                  The knyth yt toke and wente hys wey
                                
                                  To þe preyore of that Abbey.
                                
                                  As sone as he to þe priowre cam,
                                
                                  Of hym þe letter þe priowre nam,
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  He yt rede and stod full styll.
                                
                                  Anon he knewe þe knythtys wyll,
                                
                                  And spake to hym yn fayer maner,
                                
                                  "Syr, þou harte wolcum hethyr,
                                
                                  Be thys letter yn my hand [folio 30b] 
                                  Line 165 
                                
                                  I haue rythe wyll þi wylle vnderstond,
                                
                                  But I rede not the so for to doo, [Cotton, l. 168—"Nopur for wele ner for wo.] 
                                
                                  For grette perellys yt ys theder to goo.
                                
                                  I rede the dwell her and be owre brother,
                                
                                  And take abyte, and do no nother.
                                  Line 170 
                                
                                  So myth thow bothe nyte and daye
                                
                                  Serue god [full] wyll to paye,
                                
                                  [Then may þy sowle to heuen wende
                                
                                  And haue þer blysse wyt-owten ende."]

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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 87
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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