Part 9 (1/2)

ANONYMOUS: _Bucke's Graned till 1307 froe were oodness , as thou art cleped conquerour, In uch battaille thou hadest prys; God bringe thi soule to the honour, That ever wes ant ever ys

Now is Edward of Carnavan Kyng of Engelond al aplyght; God lete him never be worse man Then his fader, ne lasse ood counsail, Al Engelond for to wysse and dyht; Of Gode knyhtes darh him nout fail”

ANON: _Percy's Reliques_, Vol ii, p 10

VII ENGLISH OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

52 _Reign of Henry III, 1272 to 1216--Exane_; which Percy says was ”made by one of the adherents of Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, soon after the battle of Lehich was fought, May 14, 1264”--_Percy's Reliques_, Vol ii

”Sitteth alle stille, and herkneth to ne, bi mi leaute, Thritti thousent pound askede he For te make the pees in the countre, Ant so he dude more

Richard, thah thou be ever trichard, Trichten shalt thou neverexamples, I substitute Roman letters for the Saxon At this period, we find the characters mixed The style here is that which Johnson calls ”a kind of interlish”

Of these historical rhyives us more than two hundred lines; but he dates them no further than to say, that the author ”is placed by the criticks in the thirteenth century”--_Hist of Eng Lang_, p 24

”Alfred thys noble te hondred and syxty and tuelue the kyndorete wysdoes croune of hys lond, that in this lond gut ys: And he led hy of Engelond, of alle that ther come, That vorst thus ylad was of the pope of Rome, An suththe other after hym of the erchebyssopes echon”

”Clere he was God ynou, and gut, as er old, ar he couthe ys abece

Ac ys Gode yftes hym tok, Vor to byleue other pie, and loky on ys boke

So that by por clergye ys rygt lawes he wonde, That neuere er nere y ouerny ys lond”

ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER: _Johnson's Hist of E L_, p 25

54 _Reign of John_, 1216 _back to_ 1199--_Subject of Christ's Crucifixion_

”I syke when y singe for sorewe that y se When y ypinge bihold upon the tre, Ant se Jhesu the suete ys hert blod for-lete For the love of me; Ys woundes waxen wete, thei wepen, still and mete, Marie reweth me”

ANON: _Bucke's Gram_, p 142

VIII ENGLISH, OR ANGLO-SAXON, OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY

55 _Reign of Richard I, 1199 back to 1189--Owl and Nightingale_

”Ich was in one surete tale, An hule and one nightingale

That plait was stif I stare and strong, Suain other sval I let that wole mod ut al

I either seide of otheres custe, That alere worste that hi wuste I hure and I hure of others songe Hi hold plaidung futhe stronge”

ANON: _Bucke's Gran of Henry II, 1189 back to 1154--Example dated 1180_

”And of alle than folke The wuneden ther on folde, Wes thisses landes folke Leodene hendest itald; And alswa the wimmen Wunliche on heowen”

GodRIC: _Bucke's Gram_, p 141

57 _Example from the Saxon Chronicle, written about 1160_

”Micel hadde Henri king gadered gold & syluer, and na God ne dide la-land co aet Oxene-ford, & thar he naer of Seres-beri, and Alexander biscop of Lincoln, & te Canceler Roger hife neues, & dide aelle in prisun, til hi jafen up here castles Tha the suikes undergaeton that he milde man was & softe & God, & na justise ne dide; tha diden hi alle wunder” See _Johnson's Hist of the Eng Language_, p 22

58 _Reign of Stephen, 1154 to 1135--Exane

Is a lond ihone cokaygne