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,

Death.

                                  
                                    Est enim mors: mendacissima; [folio 124b]  Occultissima; repacissima; seuerissima;
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                                    þo dedtur so is fals and falende,
                                  
                                    Stille and eke stalkinge,
                                  
                                    Gredy and Crepynge,
                                  
                                    steorne and eke stellende
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Christ announces his Coming.

                                    
                                      "Nou ȝe alle beo glad and bliþe, [folio 133b] 
                                    
                                      For i come to leden ou swiþe."
                                    
                                      In quibus verbis quatuor proponam questiones. . . [quatuor questiones sunt:] 
                                    
                                      "Ho art þou þat comest so litel and so mithful?
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                                      Ho art þou þat comest so dredful And so Rithful?
                                    
                                      Ho art þou þat comest so ȝonge And so connynge?
                                    
                                      Ho art þou þat comest so pore And al weldynge?"
                                    
                                      ¶ Ad primam reponem, & ad omnes alias:—
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                                      "ich am a knyth for ou to fithten;
                                    
                                      ich am a pledour ou lede to Rithte;
                                    
                                      ich am a maister to teche þe lawe;
                                    
                                      ich am an emperour, a god felawe."
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Learn Love from Christ's Sufferings.

                                    
                                      Biholt, þou man wiþ Routhful herte, [folio 134] 
                                    
                                      Þe sharpë scourge wiþ knottës smerte!
                                    
                                      Mi blodi bak wiþ hit his beten:
                                    
                                      Leornë, mon, þi lust to leten;
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                                      For, wiþ þis sper þat is so gril,
                                    
                                      Min herte was stoungen, so was my uel,
                                    
                                      For loue of þe þat was so dere;
                                    
                                      Wel auȝtest þou of loue to lere.

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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 254
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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