Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...

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¶ What doþ a kynges crowne signyfye, Whan stones and floures on sercle is bent? Lordis, comouns, and clergye To ben all at [at is added by another hand.] on assent. Line 12 To kepe þat crowne, take good tent, In wode, in feld, in dale, and downe. Þe leste lyge-man, wiþ body and rent, He is a parcel of þe crowne. Line 16
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¶ What signyfyeþ þe stones aboute? Richesse, strengþe, and gret bounte; Oure townes and castels, þe reme wiþ-oute, Þey are oure stones of gret pouste. Line 20 In pes þey kepe all þis contre, Holynes, contemplacioun. God, let hem neuer skaterid be, And saue þe kyng, and kepe þe crowne! Line 24
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¶ By-ȝonde þe see, and we had nouȝt, But all oure enemys so neyȝe vs were, Þouȝ all here gold were hider brouȝt, I wolde set hit at lytel store. Line 28 Oure enemys wolde coke þerfore Wiþ ordynaunce and habergeoun, Wynne þat, and wel more: Oure landes, oure lyues, þe reme, þe crowne. Line 32
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¶ Ȝif we among oure self debate, Þan endeþ floure of chyualrie. Alle oþere londis þat doþ vs hate, Oure feblenes wole aspye; Line 36 On euery syde þey [folio 111a] wole in hye, Þe stalworþe cast þe feble adoun. Ȝif þey wiþ myȝt haue maystrye, ffro þe riȝt heire wolde take þe crowne. Line 40
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Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...
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