Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... chere , 15410 For ye schul telle a tale trewely . Lo , Rowchestre stant heer faste by . Ryde forth , myn oughne lord , brek nought oure game ! But , by my trouthe , I can not youre name ; Whether schal I calle yow my lord dan Johan , Or ...
... chere , 15410 For ye schul telle a tale trewely . Lo , Rowchestre stant heer faste by . Ryde forth , myn oughne lord , brek nought oure game ! But , by my trouthe , I can not youre name ; Whether schal I calle yow my lord dan Johan , Or ...
Page 63
... chere Sayd to another , as ye shulen here . Whatever be the authority of these lines , they are evidently imperfect at the end , and Tyrwhitt printed them as being so ; but two MSS . which he examined gave the last of them thus ...
... chere Sayd to another , as ye shulen here . Whatever be the authority of these lines , they are evidently imperfect at the end , and Tyrwhitt printed them as being so ; but two MSS . which he examined gave the last of them thus ...
Page 192
... chere , As thoughe he had i - knowen hir al the rathir yeer . She halid hym into the tapstry there hir bed was makid ; " Lo here I ligg , " quod she , " myself al nyght al nakid , Without mannys company , syn my love was dede , Jenkyn ...
... chere , As thoughe he had i - knowen hir al the rathir yeer . She halid hym into the tapstry there hir bed was makid ; " Lo here I ligg , " quod she , " myself al nyght al nakid , Without mannys company , syn my love was dede , Jenkyn ...
Page 194
... chere ? for your love at home ? ” " Nay forsooth , myne own hert , it is for yow aloon . " " For me ? alas ! what sey ye ? that wer a simple prey . " “ " Trewlich yit , " quod the pardonere , " it is as I yowe sey . ” " Ye , etith , and ...
... chere ? for your love at home ? ” " Nay forsooth , myne own hert , it is for yow aloon . " " For me ? alas ! what sey ye ? that wer a simple prey . " “ " Trewlich yit , " quod the pardonere , " it is as I yowe sey . ” " Ye , etith , and ...
Page 196
... chere she made of love , the falser was her lay But litil charge gaff she theroff , tho she aquit his while , For ethiris thought and tent was othir to begile ; And ye shul here hereaftir , when tyme comith and spase To meve such matere ...
... chere she made of love , the falser was her lay But litil charge gaff she theroff , tho she aquit his while , For ethiris thought and tent was othir to begile ; And ye shul here hereaftir , when tyme comith and spase To meve such matere ...
Common terms and phrases
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