Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages. Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications. Vol. XXII (Paperback)

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. 1848 Excerpt: ...pleasure Alwayes with scholers kepynge company; No lyfe to this I the well assure. S. It is not true, father, which you do saye; The contrarye therof is proved alwaye, For as the brute goeth by many a one, Their tender bodyes both nyght and daye Are whypped and scourged, and beate lyke a stone, That from toppe to toe the skyn is awaye. F. Is there not (saye they) for them in this case, Gyven other whyle for pardon some place? Both tender and delicate. S. None, truely, none; but that alas, alas, Diseases amonge them do growe apase; For out of their backe and syde doth floe Of verye goore bloode merveylous abundance; And yet for all that, is not suffered to goe, Tyll death be almost seene in their countenaunce. Shoulde I be content then thyther to runne, Where the bloude from my breeche thus should spunne, So longe as my wyttes shall be myne owne, The scholehouse for me shall stande alone. F. But I am sure that this kynde of facion Js not shewed to children of honest condicion. S. Of trouth, with these maisters is no dyfference, For alyke towardes all is their wrathe and violence. F. Sonne, in this poynt thou art quyte deceyved, And without doubte falsely perswaded, For it is not to be judged that any scholemayster Is of so great fiersenes and crueltye, And of yonge infantes so sore a tormenter, That the breath shoulde be about to leave the bodye. S. Father, this thynge I coulde not have beleved, But of late dayes I dyd beholde An honest man's Sonne hereby buryed, Which throughe many strypes was dead and colde. F. Peradventure, the childe of some disease did laboure, Which was the cause of his sepulture, f Stande alone. Compare Troilus and Cressida, i, 2. f Burial. From the Latin. S. With no disease, surely, was he disquieted, As unto me it was reported. F. I...