Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... doon al my diligence , Als fer as souneth into honesté , To telle yow a tale , or tuo or thre ; And if yow lust to herken hider - ward , I will yow say the lif of seint Edward , Or elles first tregedis wil I yow telle , 15450 15448 ...
... doon al my diligence , Als fer as souneth into honesté , To telle yow a tale , or tuo or thre ; And if yow lust to herken hider - ward , I will yow say the lif of seint Edward , Or elles first tregedis wil I yow telle , 15450 15448 ...
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... doon amys or more to trespace . And er that tyme he layd was on bere , He knew wel God was ful of might and grace . Balthazar . His sone , which that highte Balthazar , That huld the regne after his fader day , He by his fader couthe ...
... doon amys or more to trespace . And er that tyme he layd was on bere , He knew wel God was ful of might and grace . Balthazar . His sone , which that highte Balthazar , That huld the regne after his fader day , He by his fader couthe ...
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... doon , thou weyist nought at al ; Divided is thy regne , and it schal be To Meedes and to Perses geven , " quod he . And thilke same night , the king was slawe , And Darius occupied his degré , Though therto neyther had he right ne lawe ...
... doon , thou weyist nought at al ; Divided is thy regne , and it schal be To Meedes and to Perses geven , " quod he . And thilke same night , the king was slawe , And Darius occupied his degré , Though therto neyther had he right ne lawe ...
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... doon his fantasie Eftsones , and nought but oones , out of drede . And if sche were with child at thilke cast , No more schuld he playe thilke game Til fully fourty dayes were y - past , Than wold sche suffre him to do the same . Al ...
... doon his fantasie Eftsones , and nought but oones , out of drede . And if sche were with child at thilke cast , No more schuld he playe thilke game Til fully fourty dayes were y - past , Than wold sche suffre him to do the same . Al ...
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... doon hem fle Ay while that Odenakes dayes last . Her batails , who so lust hem for to rede , Agayn Sapor the king and other mo , And how that this processe fel in dede , Why sche conquered , and what title had therto , And after of hir ...
... doon hem fle Ay while that Odenakes dayes last . Her batails , who so lust hem for to rede , Agayn Sapor the king and other mo , And how that this processe fel in dede , Why sche conquered , and what title had therto , And after of hir ...
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