Reliquiæ Antiquæ: Scraps from Ancient Manuscripts, Illustrating Chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language, Volume 1Thomas Wright, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps |
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agayn autem clene Crist daye dede Demaunde dere deth drede erth Femme ffor fifteenth century frend fynde gedere gode gose goth gret grete hæc halga Harl harte hath hawke herte hevene hire holy honde Jhesu kepe kyng lete leve loke londe Lord lordis Loverd maner Marie Mawdleyn mayir mede mete moche mynde myraclis never owre pater noster payne pley pleyinge quæ quam quene quod rede sayd schal sche seith shal shuld sith sone sorow sory sunne sunt swete synne syth thanne thay ther therfore thou thow thre thyng tibi trewe tunc tyme uno volumine unther unto volumine wele wende whan wið wolde woll wyfe wyffe wyll wyth yere нии
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Page 98 - Sicut istud festum inerth is for to make, Accipimus nostram diem owr leve for to take. Post natale festum, full sor shall we qwake, Quum nos revenimus latens for to make. Ergo nos rogamus, hartly and holle, Ut isto die possimus to brek upe the scole...
Page 222 - What knavene cry and clateryng of knockes ! The cammede kongons cryen after ' Col ! col ! ' And blowen here bellewys that al here brayn brestes. Huf, puf, seith that on, Haf, paf, that other.
Page 62 - Jhesu, myrour of chastyte, In woord nor thouht that nevere dyd offence ; Trewe examplire of virgynyte, Hed spryng and welle of parfit contynence ; Was never clerk by rethoryk nor scyence Koude all hir vertues reherse onto this day ; Noble pryncessis of meek benyvolence, Be example of hir your homes cast away.
Page 62 - A thyng contrarye to femynyte, To be maad sturdy of resystence. But arche wives, egre in ther vyolence, Fers as tygres for to make affray, They have despit, and ageyn concyence, Lyst nat of pryde, then homes cast away. L'ENVOYE. Noble princessis, this litel schort dyte, Rudely compyled, lat it be noon offence To your womanly mercifulle pyte, Though it be rad in your audyence ; Peysed every thyng in your just advertence, So it be noon dysplesaunce to your pay ; Under support of your pacyence, Yeveth...
Page 10 - God, for the grctte penaunce and suffraunce of the trybulacioun that men moten have therinne, thes broujten in love of brynnynge charite", to the whiche alle thing is lijt, and he to suffere dethe, the whiche men most dreden, for the everlastynge lyf and joye that men moste loven and disiren, of the whiche thing verry hope puttith awey alle werinesse heere in the weye of God. Thanne sythen myraclis of Crist and of hyse seyntis weren thus...
Page 108 - A ! A ! Mawdleyn, why devise ye nothinge To this blessid body for to gif praysinge ? Sum dolorose ditee express now yee, In the dew honour of this ymage of pitee.
Page 213 - In the Master of Oxford's Catechism, written early in the fifteenth century, and printed in Reliquiae Antiquae, vol. ip 231, we have the following question and answer — C. Where be the anjelles that God put out of heven, and bycam devilles ? M. Som into hell, and som reyned in the skye, and som in the erth, and som in waters and in wodys.
Page 127 - By Code, es noner her at hame. Clericus. Wel wor suilc a man to life, That suilc a may mithe have to wyfe ! Puella. Do way, by Crist and Leonard, No wily lufe, na clerc fayllard, Na kepi herbherg, clerc, in huse no y flore Bot his hers ly wit-uten dore. Go forth thi way, god sire, For her hastu losye al thi wile. Clericus. Nu, nu, by Crist and by sant Jhon, In al this land ne wis hi none, Mayden, that hi luf mor than the, Hif me mithe ever the bether be. For the hy sory nicht and day, Y may say,...
Page 83 - Jhesu is the childes name, king of al londe ! Of the king he meden game, and smiten him wit honde. To fonden him opon a tre, He jeven him wundes to and thre in honden ; Of bitter drink he senden him a sonde.