A Common-place Book of the Fifteenth Century: Containing a Religious Play and Poetry, Legal Forms, and Local Accounts

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Lucy Toulmin Smith
Trübner and Company, 1886 - 176 sivua
 

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Sivu 68 - Thys may I wyll a-voee. Now goo we forthe my blyssyd sonn. Ysaac. I grant, fader, and let vs gon, For be my trowthe wer I at home, 432 I wold neuer gon owt vnder that forme. I prey god jeffe vs grace euer mo, And all thow that we be holdyng to.
Sivu 48 - gentle sheep', must have warmly appealed to the hearts of the audience. Finally, the lesson of faith for 'learned and lewed' and 'the wisest of us all' is taught by the 'Doctor' in the simplest manner, without reference to types or Christianity.
Sivu 65 - I thanke the with all my hart For I am glad that I schall leve, And kys onys my dere moder.
Sivu 57 - I am full sory, son, thy blood for to spyll, But truly, my chyld, I may not chese. YSAAC. Now I wold to God my moder were her on this hyll!
Sivu 46 - Five English plays on the subject of Abraham's Sacrifice are known, the Brome MS. gives a sixth, and no two are >. alike.1 Each of the four great collections of Plays, the Chester, York, Towneley, and Coventry, includes it; one is also found in a separate form at Trinity College, Dublin. In the lists of plays performed at Beverley and Newcastle too this subject has a place...
Sivu 67 - That my wyt servyd me so wyll, For to drede God more than my detth.
Sivu 152 - ... the defendant's goods and retain them till satisfaction is made. The other Court Baron, for taking and passing of estates, surrenders, admittances, &c. is held but once or twice in a year (usually with the Court Leet) unless it be on purpose to grant an estate ; and then it is holdcn as alien as requisite.
Sivu 49 - ... in stanzas of 8 lines, riming alternately, with a frequent short line or tag following. There are also many lines which seem to be formless as regards metre, rime, or stanza. Judging by the analogy of other plays of the kind, it is probable that this also was originally composed with much care for its poetical form, but has become partially corrupt through oral repetition and the errors of copyists.
Sivu 61 - I nedes here at the last In thys place sched all thy blood. 276 1 AB wostyt.

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