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,

                                
                                  Ȝoure fals flessch ȝe not fullfylle,
                                
                                  Lost with lucyfere fro the lyȝht.
                                
                                  In delycate metes I sette my delyte,
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                                  And myȝhty wynes vn-to my pay;
                                
                                  That make þis wormys on me to byte,
                                
                                  Ther-fore my song is well-y-wey!
                                
                                  I myȝht not fast, I wold not praye,
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                                  I thouȝt to amend me in myn age,
                                
                                  I droffe euer forth fro dey to dey,
                                
                                  There-fore I byde here in þis cage.
                                
                                  Thys cage is euer lastynge fyre;
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                                  I ame ordeynd þer-in to duelle;
                                
                                  It is me gyuen, fore myne hyre,
                                
                                  Euer to bryne in þe pytte of helle.
                                
                                  I ame feteryd with þe fendes selle,
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                                  There I a-byde as best in stalle;
                                
                                  There is no tonge my care cane telle,
                                
                                  Be-were ȝe haue not sych a falle!
                                
                                  Alas þat euer I borne was,
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                                  Or modere me bore! why dyde sche so?
                                
                                  For I ame lost fore my trespas,
                                
                                  And a-byde in euer-lastynge wo;
                                
                                  I haue no frend, bot many a fo.
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                                  Be-hold me how þat I ame tourne,
                                
                                  Fore I ame rente fro tope to to;
                                
                                  Alas þat euer I was borne!
                                
                                  Gode broþer, haue me in mynd,
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                                  And thinke how þou schall dyȝe all wey,
                                
                                  And to þi soule be not vn-kynde,
                                
                                  Remenbyre it boþe nyȝt and dey!
                                
                                  Besyly lokë þat þou praye,
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                                  And be-seke þou heuen kynge
                                
                                  To saue þe on þat dredfull dey
                                
                                  That euery man schall gyffe rekenynge;
                                
                                  Fore þer no lordes schall fore þe praye,
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                                  Ne Justys, noþer no mane of lawe;
                                
                                  There charter helpys þe not þat dey,

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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 125
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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