Eke what availetħ maner / and gentilesse Shal cruelte / be your gouerneresse Allas what herte / may hyt longe endure 81 To breke that perilouse / alliaunce Ye sleen hem that ben / in your obeisaunce 84 (13) (II. 2) And further ouer / yf ye suffre this Youre renouñ ys fordoo / in a throwe Ther shal no mañ wete well / what pite is 88 And we despeyred / that spekeñ to your grace 91 (14) (II. 3) Haue mercy oñ me / thow herenus quene That loue and drede yow / euer lenger the more 95 98 (15) (Tern III. 1) My peyne is this / that what so I desire And euer setteth desire / myn hert on fire Eke on that other sydes / where so I goo 102 105 46 PARLAMENT OF FOULES. Gg. 4. 27, CAMBR. UNIV. LIBR. [MS Gg. 4. 27, Cambr. Univ. Libr. (vellum, ?1430-40 A.D.).] Here begynyth the parlement of ffoulys. [on leaf 480, back] (1) [The Proem.] He lyf so short the craft so longe to lerne [leaf 481] T A-stonyd with his wondyrful werkynge So sore I-wis/ that whan I on hym thynke (2) 4 7 For al be that I knowe nat loue In dede 11 That rede I wel / he wele be lord & syre I dar nat seyn/ his strokis been so sore Of 14 (3) vsage what for lust & what for lore 18 Vp on a bok was wrete with letteris olde And ther vpon a certeyn thing to lerne The longe day ful faste I redde & zerne (4) For ofte of olde feldys / as men sey 21 Comyth al this newe1 corn from 3er to 3ere [1 in Corrector's hand] And out of olde bokis in good fey Comyth al this newe science that men lere 25 But now to purpos as of this matere To rede forth so gan me to delite PARLAMENT OF FOULES. Gg. 4. 27, CAMBR. UNIV. LIBR. 47 (5) This bok of which I make of mencioun Tullyus of the drem of sothion Entytlt was al thus as I schal telle Chapiteris seuene It hadde / of heuene & helle 32 And erthe and soulis that thereon' dwelle [1o altered from y] Of whiche as shortly as I can it trete Of his centence I wele 30w seyn the greete (6) 35 Fyrst tellith it whan scipion was come [leaf 481, back] In Affrik how he metyh massynisse That hym for Ioie in armys hath I-nome Thanne tellyth he here spche / & of the blysse 39 That was be-twixsyn hem thil that day gan mysse And how his Auncestre Affrycan so deere 42 (7) Thanne tellith it / that from a sterry place (8) Thanne axede he If folk that now been dede Han lyf & dwellynge In a nothir place And Affrican seyde za with outyn drede And that oure present wordis lyuys space 46 49 53 56 48 PARLAMENT OF FOULES. Gg. 4. 27, Cambr. Univ. LIBR. (9) Thanne shewede he hym the erthe that here is At regard of the heuenys quantite And after shewede he hym the nyne speris And was sumdel disseyuable & ful of harde grace 67 That euery sterre shulde come in to his place (11) Thanne preyede hym cypyon to telle hym al 70 [leaf 482] 74 To comyn swiftly to this place deere That ful of blysse is & soulys cleere 77 (12) But brekeis of the lawe soth to seyn And lykerous folk aftyr that they ben dede Tyl manye a world be passid out of drede 81 And that for-3euyn is his weked dede Than shal þey comyn in to this blysful place PARLAMENT OF FOULES. Gg. 4. 27, CAMBR. UNIV. LIBR. 49 (13) The day gan folwyn & the derke nyzt (14) But fynally myn spirit at the laste (15) The wery huntere slepynge In his bed 88 91 95 [That corrected] 98 The Iuge dremyth how hise pleis been sped The cartere dremyth how his carte is gon 102 The riche of gold / the knyght fy3t with his fon The syke met he drynkyth of the tunne 105 The louere met he hath his lady wonne (16) Can I nat seyn If that the cause were [leaf 482, back] 109 In lokynge of myn olde bok by-forn That sumdel of thyn labour wolde I quyte 112 |