Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 14Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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... myght dwell secretly out of the besynesse of the worlde , for to serve God quyetly with more devocyon ; and I counseyled hym to sayle into an ylonde ferre in the see , besydes the Mountaynes of Stones , whiche is ful well knowen , and ...
... myght dwell secretly out of the besynesse of the worlde , for to serve God quyetly with more devocyon ; and I counseyled hym to sayle into an ylonde ferre in the see , besydes the Mountaynes of Stones , whiche is ful well knowen , and ...
Page 38
... 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 . And than saynt Brandon badde the shypmen to wynde up the sayle , and ...
... 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 . And than saynt Brandon badde the shypmen to wynde up the sayle , and ...
Page 40
... myght be seen , the nombre of them was so grete , and they songe so meryly that it was an hevenly noyse to here . Wherfore saynt Brandon kneled down on his knees , and wepte for joye , and made his prayers devoutly unto our Lord God to ...
... myght be seen , the nombre of them was so grete , and they songe so meryly that it was an hevenly noyse to here . Wherfore saynt Brandon kneled down on his knees , and wepte for joye , and made his prayers devoutly unto our Lord God to ...
Page 45
... myght of our Lorde is now as grete as ever it was . " And whan saynt Brandon had dwelled there fro Chrystmasse even tyll the xij . daye was passed , than he toke his leve of the abbot and covent , and returned with his monkes to his ...
... myght of our Lorde is now as grete as ever it was . " And whan saynt Brandon had dwelled there fro Chrystmasse even tyll the xij . daye was passed , than he toke his leve of the abbot and covent , and returned with his monkes to his ...
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... myght se all the fysshes that were aboute them , wherof they were full sore agast , and the monkes counseyled saynt Brandon to synge no more , for all the fysshes lay than as they had slepte . And than saynt Brandon sayd , " OF ST ...
... myght se all the fysshes that were aboute them , wherof they were full sore agast , and the monkes counseyled saynt Brandon to synge no more , for all the fysshes lay than as they had slepte . And than saynt Brandon sayd , " OF ST ...
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