Two Coventry Corpus Christi plays: 1. The shearmen and taylor's pageant, re-edited from the edition of Thomas Sharp, 1825; and 2. The weavers' pageant, re-edited from the manuscript of Robert Croo, 1534; with a plan of Coventry, and appendixes containing the chief records of the Coventry plays. By Hardin Craig |
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Page 33 - The Presentation in the Temple (a Pageant as originally represented by the Corporation of Weavers in Coventry . . . Edinburgh, printed for the Abbotsford Club, 1836), p.
Page 27 - A'nothur wey? owt! owt! owtt! Hath those fawls traytvrs done me this ded ; I stampe! I stare! I loke all abowtt! Myght I them take, I schuld them bren at a glede! I rent! I rawe! and now run I wode! A! thatt these velen trayturs hath mard this my mode! The schalbe hangid yf I ma cum them to!
Page xxii - Corpus-Christi day; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither, from far and near, was of no small benefit thereto ; which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the...
Page 1 - And geve us * grace wz'tA his marce forto mete ! For now in grett mesere mankynd ys bownd ; The sarpent hathe gevin vs soo mortall a wonde That no creature ys abull vs forto reyles Tyll thye right vncion of Jvda dothe seyse. Then schall moche myrthe and joie in-cresse ; And the right rote in Isaraell sprynge, Thatt schall bryng forthe the greyne off whollenes ; And owt of danger he schall vs bryng In-to thatt reygeon where he ys kyng Wyche abowe all othur far dothe a-bownde, And thatt cruell Sathan...