Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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Page 24
... Unto him sayde , " Fader , why do ye wepe ? Whan wil the gayler bringen oure potage ? Is ther no morsel bred that ye doon kepe ? I am so hongry that I may not sleepe . Now wolde God that I might slepe ever ! Than schuld not hunger in my ...
... Unto him sayde , " Fader , why do ye wepe ? Whan wil the gayler bringen oure potage ? Is ther no morsel bred that ye doon kepe ? I am so hongry that I may not sleepe . Now wolde God that I might slepe ever ! Than schuld not hunger in my ...
Page 27
... unto cruelté , Allas ! to deepe wil the venym wade . In youthe a maister had this emperour , To teche him letterure and curtesye ; For of moralité he was the flour , And in his tyme , but if bokes lye . And whil his maister had of him ...
... unto cruelté , Allas ! to deepe wil the venym wade . In youthe a maister had this emperour , To teche him letterure and curtesye ; For of moralité he was the flour , And in his tyme , but if bokes lye . And whil his maister had of him ...
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... unto hir toun sche went . De rege Antiochie illustri . What needith it of king Antiochius , To telle his heye real magesté , His heyhe pride , his werke venemous ? For such another was ther noon as he . Redeth which that he was in ...
... unto hir toun sche went . De rege Antiochie illustri . What needith it of king Antiochius , To telle his heye real magesté , His heyhe pride , his werke venemous ? For such another was ther noon as he . Redeth which that he was in ...
Page 31
... Unto the Jewes such an hate had he , 16080 That he bad graithe his chaar hastily , And swor , and sayde ful despitously , Unto Jerusalem he wold eftsoone , To wreke his ire on it full cruelly ; But of his purpos he was let ful soone ...
... Unto the Jewes such an hate had he , 16080 That he bad graithe his chaar hastily , And swor , and sayde ful despitously , Unto Jerusalem he wold eftsoone , To wreke his ire on it full cruelly ; But of his purpos he was let ful soone ...
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... unto him sende . The pride of man and bost he layd adoun , Wher so he cam , unto the worldes ende . Comparisoun yit mighte never be maked Bitwen him and noon other conquerour ; For al this world for drede of him hath quaked . He was of ...
... unto him sende . The pride of man and bost he layd adoun , Wher so he cam , unto the worldes ende . Comparisoun yit mighte never be maked Bitwen him and noon other conquerour ; For al this world for drede of him hath quaked . He was of ...
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