Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,

(76): Commytte thyne age [to] thy god rather than to thy sonne.
(77): In dysposyng thy legatys [sic], pay firste thy servanntis. [Nota.]
(78): Commytte not thi soule to swych as loue thy persone, but rather to them which loue her owne sowles.
(79): Dispose thi goodys or sykenes take the.
(80): He that is a seruaunt to sykenes, may no testament make.
(81): Free, theerfore, & in helth, make thowe thy testament.
(82): Here what thi chyldern wyll doo aftyr thy deth. Peraventure thei seke departysion of ther heritage.
(83): If thi chylderne bene gentilmen, it ys bettyr they be dyvydid in the worlde, then her heritage shulde be deuydide.
(84): Yff thi childryn be laborers, let them do as th[e]i wyll.
(85): Yf thei be merchauntes, dyvision of heritage is bettyr than commvnion, that the infortune of oone hurte not the other.
(86): Iff the mothir of them seke to be maride, she doth folyly, and, woulde god, in-to the bewailyng of her, for her trespas, she myght be weddid to a yonge mane, For suche oone shulde sone caste her a-way & consume her goodes, and so oone cuppe of sorowe shulde be comvne to them bothe. [[Follows: The list of Books proscribd on the 1st Sunday of Advent, 1531, p. 62.]]

The Height of Christ, our Lady, &c.

[Lambeth MS. 306, fol. 203, col. 2.]

THE LONGITUDE OF MEN FOLOWYNG.

                                      Moyses .xiij. fote & viij ynches & dimidium.
                                    
                                      Cryste .vj. fote & iij ynches.
                                    
                                      Our lady .vj. fote & viij ynches.
                                    
                                      Crystoferus .xvij. fote & viij ynches.
                                    
                                      Kyng Alysaunder .iiij. fote & v ynches.
                                    
                                      Colbronde .xvij. fote & ij ynches & dimidium.
                                    
                                      Syr Gy .x. fote. iij ynches & dimidium.
                                    
                                      Seynt thomas of Caunterbery .vij. fote saue a ynche.
                                    
                                      Long Mores, a man of yrelonde borne, & seruaunt to kyng
                                    
                                      Edward the iiijth .vj. fote & x. ynches & dimidium. [[Printed in Reliquiæ Antiquæ, v. 1, p. 200, with Ey for Gy, and "half" for the contraction di.]]

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Title: Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,
Author: Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
Canvas: Page 61
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited,; 1866, re-edited 1903.
Subject terms: English poetry

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