This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...manere: My fadyr n'as mason, ne carpentere; And though your walles should all to-schake, I schall nevir helpe hem to make. Kyng Richard pokyd gret -rrour Wrathe dede hym chaung colour; The duke, with hys foot, he smot Agayn the brest, God it wot, 5940 That on a stone he him ovirthrewe: It was evyl don be Seynt Mathewe ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...manere: My fadyr n'as mason, ne carpentere; And though your walles should all to-schake, I schall nevir helpe hem to make. Kyng Richard pokyd gret -rrour Wrathe dede hym chaung colour; The duke, with hys foot, he smot Agayn the brest, God it wot, 5940 That on a stone he him ovirthrewe: It was evyl don be Seynt Mathewe Fy a debles, vyle coward In helle be thou hangyd hard Goo quyckly out off our hoost; Curse hast thou off the Holy Gost For, be Marye, that bar Jesus, Fynde I the, traytour, among us, Ovyr this ilke dayes thre, Myself schal thy bane be 5950 Traytour, we travayle day and nyght In werre, in wakyng, and in fyght, And thou lyes as a vyle glotoun, And restes in thy pavyloun, And drynkes the wyn good and strong, And slepes alle the nyght long. I schal breke thy banere And slynge it into the ryvere --Home wente the duke ful wroth; Hys owne lyff hym wax loth. 5960 Off that dyspyte he was unblythe, And trussyd hys harneys, al so swythe; And swore, by Jesu in Trynyte, And he myghte ever hys tyme see, Off Richard sholde he be so awreke, That al the worlde scholde theroff speke. He heeld hym al to weel foreward: In helle myght he be hangyd hard For, thorwgh hys tresoun and trehcherye, And thorwgh the waytyng off hys aspye, 4970 Kyng Richard he dede gret schame, That turnyd all Yngeland to grame. A lytyl lenger had he most Have lyvyd, by the Holy Gost, Ovir king, duke, and emperour, He hadde ben lord and conqueror: Alle Crystyant6, and al Paynym, Scholde have holde under hym. The Duke off Ostrych hyyd hym faste Away, with hys meyne in haste. 5980 With hym the Duke off Burgoyne, The folk off Fraunce, and the erl off Boloyne. Kyng Richard brak the dukes banere, And keste it into the ryvere, And cryyd on hym with voys ful ...
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Add this copy of Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and to cart. $68.52, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
