Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 14Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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... monke , and borne in Yrlonde , and there he was abbot of an hous wherein were a thousand monkes , and there he ladde a full strayte and holy lyfe , in grete penaunce and abstynence , and he governed his monkes ful vertuously . And than ...
... monke , and borne in Yrlonde , and there he was abbot of an hous wherein were a thousand monkes , and there he ladde a full strayte and holy lyfe , in grete penaunce and abstynence , and he governed his monkes ful vertuously . And than ...
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... monkes . And whan he came thyder , he lyked that place full well , where he and his monkes served our Lorde full devoutly . " And than Beryne sawe in a visyon that this monke Meruoke was sayled ryght ferre eestwarde into the see more ...
... monkes . And whan he came thyder , he lyked that place full well , where he and his monkes served our Lorde full devoutly . " And than Beryne sawe in a visyon that this monke Meruoke was sayled ryght ferre eestwarde into the see more ...
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... monkes with him . But or they entred into the shyppe they fasted xl . dayes , and lyved devoutly , and eche of them receyved the sacrament . And whan saynt Bran- don with his xij . monkes were entred into the shyppe , there came other ...
... monkes with him . But or they entred into the shyppe they fasted xl . dayes , and lyved devoutly , and eche of them receyved the sacrament . And whan saynt Bran- don with his xij . monkes were entred into the shyppe , there came other ...
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Percy Society. there came other two of his monkes , and prayed hym that they myght sayle with hym . And than he sayd , " Ye may sayle with me , but one of you shall go to hell , or ye come agayn . " But not for that they wold go with hym ...
Percy Society. there came other two of his monkes , and prayed hym that they myght sayle with hym . And than he sayd , " Ye may sayle with me , but one of you shall go to hell , or ye come agayn . " But not for that they wold go with hym ...
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... monkes were aferde , and fledde anone to the shyppe , and lefte the fyre and meet behynde them , and mervayled sore of the movyng . And saynt Brandon comforted them , and sayd that it was a grete fisshe named Jasconye , whiche laboureth ...
... monkes were aferde , and fledde anone to the shyppe , and lefte the fyre and meet behynde them , and mervayled sore of the movyng . And saynt Brandon comforted them , and sayd that it was a grete fisshe named Jasconye , whiche laboureth ...
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