Floris and Blancheflour: a Middle-English romanceAlbert Booth Taylor |
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Page 31 - Now she ne my3t with me wende; Now we ne mot togeder goo, Al my wele is turned to woo!
Page 33 - But for sop so it is: iib pe king let sende after pe burgeise, pat was hende and curtayse And welle selle and bygge couth And moony langages had in his mouth. Wel sone pat mayde was him betauet, юo An to pe haven was she brougt.
Page 25 - It hath and schal ben everemor That love is maister wher he wile, Ther can no lif make other skile; For wher as evere him lest to sette, Ther is no myht which him may lette. Bot what schal fallen ate laste, 40 The...
Page 30 - Ne schal not Blancheflour lerne with me? Ne can y no3t to scole goon Without Blaunchefloure," he seide ban, 20 "Ne can y in no scole syng ne rede Without Blauncheflour,
Page 34 - Mygt he hur bryng to his contree. Now pese marchaundes sayles over pe see Wip pis mayde to her contree. So longe pey han undernome...
Page 38 - Sen it may noon other be, Leuer me were she were his wyf pan y lost my sonnes lyf!
Page 38 - Himself he wolde haue doo to deth, And to hert he had it smeten, Ne had his moder it vnderjeten.
Page 34 - In pe world was not so depe soler, pat it nold lyzj. pe botelere us To fylle bop ale and wyne. Of sylver and gold bop good and fyne .... Euneas pe king, pat nobel man, At Troye in batayle he it wan, And brouTJt.
Page 30 - And tolde hur of his woo, Of his pou^t and of his care How it wolde of Floreys fare.
Page 33 - King ful sone be waxe to-brake For to wete what it spake; He begynneth to chaunge his moode, 135 And wel sone he vnderstode.