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. 1904 Excerpt: ...courte bydene. 4fc---//LtA-Ye shall not want at your goyng Golde, nor sylver, nor other thyng. This seven yere I shall you abyde, 275 Betyde of you what so betyde; Tyll seven yere be comen and gone. I shall be mayde all alone." The squyer kneled on his kne, And thanked that lady fayre a-d fre; 280 And thryes he kyssed ...
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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. 1904 Excerpt: ...courte bydene. 4fc---//LtA-Ye shall not want at your goyng Golde, nor sylver, nor other thyng. This seven yere I shall you abyde, 275 Betyde of you what so betyde; Tyll seven yere be comen and gone. I shall be mayde all alone." The squyer kneled on his kne, And thanked that lady fayre a-d fre; 280 And thryes he kyssed that lady tho, And toke his leve, a-d forth1 gan go. The kinges;steward 1 stode full nye, In a chambre fast them bye, And hearde theyr wordes wonder wel, 285 And all the woyng every delj He made a vowe to heaven-kyng, For to bewraye that swete thyng, And that squyer taken shoulde be, And hanged hye on a tre; 290 And that false stewardej full of yre, Them to betraye was his desyre; He bethought hym nedely. Every day by and by, How he myght venged be 295 On that ladv.fayre and fre. For he her loved pryvely, 1 C forth he. But leue we of that stewarde here, biii 301 And speke we more of that squyere, How he to his chambre wente, whan he past fro that lady gente. " // J/vj There he arayed him in scarlet reed, 305 And set his chapelet on his heed, A belte a boute his sydes two, with brode barres to and fro; A horne aboute his necke he caste, And forthe he wente than at the laste 310 To do his offyce in the hall Amonge the lordes, grete and small. He toke a whyte yerde in his hande, Before the kynge than he gan stande, And soone he set him on his kne, 315 And serued the kynge full ryally, With deynte metes that were dere, with partryche, pecocke, and plouer, with byrdes in brede ybake, The tell, the ducke, and the drake, 320 The cocke, the curlue, and the crane, with fesauntes fayre, there were no wane, Bothe storkes and snytes1 there were also, And venyson fresse of bucke and do, And other deyntes many one 325 for to sette a...
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Add this copy of The Squyr of Lowe Degre, a Middle English Metrical to cart. $22.95, very good condition, Sold by Peninsula Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Traverse City, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1904 by Ginn & Company.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. Contains notes and an index. Previous owner name and bookplate, small spot to rear cover, else a nice clean, tight book with no interior or exterior markings with the exception of a very small two word marginal note in ink.; Albion Series of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English Poetry Series; 8vo, 8"-9" tall; 111 pages.
Add this copy of The Squyr of Lowe Degre: a Middle English Metrical to cart. $36.00, very good condition, Sold by Crabtree's Collection rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sebago, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1904 by Ginn.
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VG. The booklet "The Sources of Chaucer's Constance and Thisbe", edited by Martha Hale Shackford, Wellesley College, 24 pages, Latin text, English commentary, is glued to the front endpaper of book. Green binding, gilt lettering and decoration. Owner notations, name, edge wear.
