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,

                                
                                  The soþe to knowë as hit were; [L. omits lines 45, 46.] 
                                
                                  And sodenly, yn myddës his [the myd]  masse,
                                
                                  Þer þrowȝ to hym such a [drewe to him a grete]  derkenesse
                                  Line 48 
                                
                                  Þat he lakkede ner [That blacked alle]  þe dayës lyȝt,
                                
                                  For hit was [And was alse]  derkë as mydnyȝt;
                                
                                  In þat derkenes was [And in the derknes a]  myste among.
                                
                                  All a-stonyed he stode, so hit stongke; [L., Stonyed he was of a stynche fulle stronge.Ther-of so gresely he was a-gasteThat in swonyng he was alle-moste.] 
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  Be-syde he loked vnþur hys lere;
                                
                                  In þat derknes a þyng þrew hym [Amiddes the derknes that þat drewe on]  nere,
                                
                                  A wonþurfull [wonder]  grysely creature,
                                
                                  Aftur a fend fyred with all her feture, [But as a ffende was hir feture] 
                                  Line 56 
                                
                                  All ragged & rente, boþe elenge & [So ragged so rent and also]  euell,
                                
                                  As orrybull [dredfulle]  to be-holde as any [helle]  deuell:
                                
                                  Mowthë, facë, [and nose]  eres & yes,
                                
                                  Brennede all [Flammynge]  full of brennyng lyes.
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  16He was so agast of þat grysyly goste,
                                
                                  That yn a swonyng he was almoste;
                                
                                  He halsed hit, þorow16 [16_16 He asked fullyche bi]  goddes myȝte,
                                
                                  That þe fende he putte to flyȝte, [That alle deuelis shulde drade by right] 
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  And be þe vertu of hys blode
                                
                                  That for mankynde dyed on Rode,
                                
                                  "Sey me sykerly þe soþë [Sey thou me the sothe wel]  soone
                                
                                  What þou hast [Whate hate thou]  yn þis place to done:
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  What ys þy cause þou cursed [the cause that þu weked]  wreche,
                                
                                  Thus at masse me for to [Thus me at masse do der and]  drecche?"
                                
                                  Þe gost answered with drury [drery]  chere
                                
                                  "I am þy modur þat þe beere,
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  Þat for vnschryuen dedes so [om. so]  derne
                                
                                  In byttyr paynes þus y brenne."

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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 116
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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