Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... fortune ! sche that whilom was Dredful to kinges and to emperoures , Now gaulith al the pepul on hir , alas ! And sche that helmyd was in starke stoures , And wan bifore tounes stronge and toures , Schal on hir heed now were a ...
... fortune ! sche that whilom was Dredful to kinges and to emperoures , Now gaulith al the pepul on hir , alas ! And sche that helmyd was in starke stoures , And wan bifore tounes stronge and toures , Schal on hir heed now were a ...
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Percy Society. Whom fortune held so heigh in magesté , Wel oughte men thy pitous deth complayne ; Thy bastard brother made the to fle , And after at a sege by subtilté Thow were bytrayed , and lad to his tent , Wher as he with his oughne ...
Percy Society. Whom fortune held so heigh in magesté , Wel oughte men thy pitous deth complayne ; Thy bastard brother made the to fle , And after at a sege by subtilté Thow were bytrayed , and lad to his tent , Wher as he with his oughne ...
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... fortune the whel governe and gye , And out of joye bringe men into sorwe . De Barnabo comite Mediolano . Of Melayn grete Barnabo Viscount , God of delyt and scourge of Lumbardye , Why schuld thyn infortune I nought accounte , Syn in ...
... fortune the whel governe and gye , And out of joye bringe men into sorwe . De Barnabo comite Mediolano . Of Melayn grete Barnabo Viscount , God of delyt and scourge of Lumbardye , Why schuld thyn infortune I nought accounte , Syn in ...
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Percy Society. Theldest skarsly fyf yer was of age ; Allas ! fortune ! it was gret cruelté Suche briddes to put in such a cage . Dampnyd he was to deye in that prisoun , For Roger , which that bisschop was of Pise , Had on him maad a ...
Percy Society. Theldest skarsly fyf yer was of age ; Allas ! fortune ! it was gret cruelté Suche briddes to put in such a cage . Dampnyd he was to deye in that prisoun , For Roger , which that bisschop was of Pise , Had on him maad a ...
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... Fortune , alas and waylaway ! Thin false querel al my woo I wyte . " His childer wende that it for hongir was , That he his armes gnew , and nought for wo , And sayden , " Fader , do nought so , allas ! But rather et the fleisch upon us ...
... Fortune , alas and waylaway ! Thin false querel al my woo I wyte . " His childer wende that it for hongir was , That he his armes gnew , and nought for wo , And sayden , " Fader , do nought so , allas ! But rather et the fleisch upon us ...
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