Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 14Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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... sawe in a visyon that this monke Meruoke was sayled ryght ferre eestwarde into the see more than thre dayes saylynge , and sodeynly to his semynge there came a derke cloude and overcovered them , that a grete parte of the daye they sawe ...
... sawe in a visyon that this monke Meruoke was sayled ryght ferre eestwarde into the see more than thre dayes saylynge , and sodeynly to his semynge there came a derke cloude and overcovered them , that a grete parte of the daye they sawe ...
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... sawe an ylonde ferre fro them , and they sayled thyder - warde as fast as they coude , and they sawe a grete roche of stone appere above all the water , and thre dayes they sayled aboute it or they coude gete in to the place . But at ...
... sawe an ylonde ferre fro them , and they sayled thyder - warde as fast as they coude , and they sawe a grete roche of stone appere above all the water , and thre dayes they sayled aboute it or they coude gete in to the place . But at ...
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Percy Society. of God , they sawe ferre fro them a full fayre ylonde , ful of grene pasture , wherin were the whytest and gretest shepe that ever they sawe ; for every shepe was as grete as an oxe . And soone after came to them a goodly ...
Percy Society. of God , they sawe ferre fro them a full fayre ylonde , ful of grene pasture , wherin were the whytest and gretest shepe that ever they sawe ; for every shepe was as grete as an oxe . And soone after came to them a goodly ...
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Percy Society. But soone after , as God wold , they sawe a fayre ylonde , full of floures , herbes , and trees , wherof they thanked God of his good grace , and anone they went on londe . And whan they had gone longe in this , they ...
Percy Society. But soone after , as God wold , they sawe a fayre ylonde , full of floures , herbes , and trees , wherof they thanked God of his good grace , and anone they went on londe . And whan they had gone longe in this , they ...
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... sawe before , and after ladde them into the fraytour , and there set them amonge his covent . And anone there came one by the purveyaunce of God , whiche served them well of meet and drynke . For every monke had set before hym a fayre ...
... sawe before , and after ladde them into the fraytour , and there set them amonge his covent . And anone there came one by the purveyaunce of God , whiche served them well of meet and drynke . For every monke had set before hym a fayre ...
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