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,

                                
                                  Then sayde [Tho answerd]  þe pope, "alas! Alas!
                                
                                  Modur, þis ys to me [My moder this is]  a wondur case.
                                  Line 76 
                                
                                  A! leef [Alas]  modur! how may þis be
                                
                                  In such paynes [A-Raye]  þe for to se?
                                
                                  For alle men wende y-wys [Men wendyne witterlyche I-wis]  [folio 87:2] 
                                
                                  That þou hadde bene wordy [were worthi to haue]  heuen blys,
                                  Line 80 
                                
                                  And full good [fulle welle with god]  þat þou were
                                
                                  To praye for vs þat ben [leven]  here.
                                
                                  Sey me, modyr, with-outen fayne
                                
                                  Why art þou put to all þis payne."
                                  Line 84 
                                
                                  She sayde, "sone, sykerly [my sonne sothefastlye] 
                                
                                  I shalle þe telle þe causë why:
                                
                                  For y was not such as y semed,
                                
                                  But mychë [Butt wecked and]  worsë þen men wened;
                                  Line 88 
                                
                                  I lyuede in lustes [I synned]  wykkydly in my lyfe,
                                
                                  Of þe whyche y wolde me not [durste me neuer]  shryfe;"
                                
                                  And [She]  tolde hym trewly all þe [her]  case
                                
                                  Fro þe bygynnyng how þat [From one tille other as]  hit wase.
                                  Line 92 
                                
                                  16The pope lette teres a-down Renne,
                                
                                  And to his modyr he sayde þen,16 [16_16 L. omits these lines.] 
                                
                                  "Telle me now, modur, for [Sey me, moder, for]  loue of mary flour,
                                
                                  If any þyng may þe help or [Yf oughte the may save and]  sokour?
                                  Line 96 
                                
                                  19Bedes, or masse, þy penaunce to bye,
                                
                                  Or ony fastyng þy sorowe to aleye;
                                
                                  What crafte, [?MS.; may be 'curste']  or caste, or any oþur þyng
                                
                                  The may help, or be þy Releuyng."19 [19_19Wheþer fastynge or pennaunce may þee alegge,Bedis or masses thi peynes to brygge,With cost, and crafte, and other thingeTo the be helpe of Any savynge.] 
                                  Line 100 
                                
                                  "My [My dere]  blessed sone," sayde she,
                                
                                  "Full well y hope þat hit may [welle y-holpen y myght]  be;
                                
                                  Syker & saf myȝth y [Holpen and savide y myghte]  be well,

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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 117
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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