Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 12Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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... tyme of Penthecoste or Whytsontyde , that the wodes comynly be lusty and gladsom , and the trees clad with levys and blossome , and the ground with herbes and flowris swete smellyng , and also the fowles and byrdes syngen melodyously in ...
... tyme of Penthecoste or Whytsontyde , that the wodes comynly be lusty and gladsom , and the trees clad with levys and blossome , and the ground with herbes and flowris swete smellyng , and also the fowles and byrdes syngen melodyously in ...
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... wente I ner and fonde Maister Reynar that had lefte that he fyrst redde and songe , and bygan to playe his olde playe , for he had caught Kywaert by the throte , and had I not that tyme comen , 4 THYSTORYE OF REYNARD THE FOXE .
... wente I ner and fonde Maister Reynar that had lefte that he fyrst redde and songe , and bygan to playe his olde playe , for he had caught Kywaert by the throte , and had I not that tyme comen , 4 THYSTORYE OF REYNARD THE FOXE .
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Percy Society. throte , and had I not that tyme comen , he sholde have taken his lyf from hym , like as ye hiere may see on Kywaert the Hare the fresse wounde yet ; forsothe my lord the kynge , yf ye suffre this unpunysshyd and lete hym ...
Percy Society. throte , and had I not that tyme comen , he sholde have taken his lyf from hym , like as ye hiere may see on Kywaert the Hare the fresse wounde yet ; forsothe my lord the kynge , yf ye suffre this unpunysshyd and lete hym ...
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... and reprised of their truantrye , they shold never lerne . : Now complayneth Courtoys , that he with payne had gotten a puddyng in the wynter , at such tyme as the coste is evyl to fynde , therof hym had be 6 THYSTORYE OF REYNARD THE FOXE .
... and reprised of their truantrye , they shold never lerne . : Now complayneth Courtoys , that he with payne had gotten a puddyng in the wynter , at such tyme as the coste is evyl to fynde , therof hym had be 6 THYSTORYE OF REYNARD THE FOXE .
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... tyme be no more aferd of me , ne take no hede , for I now wil ete no more flesshe , I am forthon so olde , that I wolde fayn remembre my sowle ; I will now go forth , for I have yete to saye my sexte , none , and my evensonge , to God I ...
... tyme be no more aferd of me , ne take no hede , for I now wil ete no more flesshe , I am forthon so olde , that I wolde fayn remembre my sowle ; I will now go forth , for I have yete to saye my sexte , none , and my evensonge , to God I ...
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