This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...eorl ant knyht. Herof habbeth the Flemysshe suithe god game, Ant suereth bi Seint Omer ant eke bi Seint Jame, 3ef hy ther more cometh, hit falleth huem to shame, with huem for te fyht. I tell ou for sothe, the bataille thus bigon Bituene Fraunce ant Flaundres, hou hue weren fon; Vor Vrenshe the eorl of Flaundres in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...eorl ant knyht. Herof habbeth the Flemysshe suithe god game, Ant suereth bi Seint Omer ant eke bi Seint Jame, 3ef hy ther more cometh, hit falleth huem to shame, with huem for te fyht. I tell ou for sothe, the bataille thus bigon Bituene Fraunce ant Flaundres, hou hue weren fon; Vor Vrenshe the eorl of Flaundres in prison heden y-don, with tresoun untrewe. 36 f the Prince of Walis his lyf habbe mote, --for truth I tell thee.--Go forth to Rome to atone for thy misdeeds;--pray to good saints that they let thee speed better: --unless thou workest more wisely, thou losest land and people, --the crown fell well to the. (?) Alas I thou simple France, it may appear a shame for thee, --that a few fullers make thee so tame;--sixty thousand in a day they made trip quickly, (?)--with count and knight.--Thereof have the Flemings very good game, --and swear by St. Omer and eke by St. James, --if they come there any more, it will fall them to shame, --with them to fight. I tell you for truth, the battle thus begun, --between France and Flanders, how they were foes;--for the French had put the Count of Flanders in prison, --with treason faithlessly.--If the Prince of Wales his life might have, --it will Hit falleth the Kyng of Fraunce bittrore then the sote; Bote he the rathere therof welle do bote, wel sore hit shal hym rewe. happen to the King of France more bitter than soot;--unless he before-hand do make good amends for it, --very sorely he shall rue it. The following song seems to have been popular about the beginning of the fourteenth century. The wolf and the fox pourtray exactly the characters of the two classes of people who then oppressed and plundered the middle and lower classes. A SONG ON THE TIMES. MS. Harl. No. 913, fol. 44, V. written about A.D. 1308. Whose t
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