Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages Volume 25 (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: ... And whiles that this prest him wyped haas, This chanoun took his cole, I schrewe his faas And layd it aboven on the myd-ward Of the croslet, and blew wel afterward, Til that the coles gonne faste brenne. 13120 "Now geve us drinke," quod the chanoun thenne, "Als swithe al schal be wel, I undertake. Sitte we doun, and let us mery make." And whan that the chanounes bechene cole Was brent, al the lymail out of the hole Into the crosselet anoon fel adoun; And so it moste needes by resoun, Sins it so even above couched was; But therof wist the prest no thing, allas He demed alle the colis i-liche goode, 13130 For of the sleight he no thing understood. And whan this alcamister saugh his tyme, "Rys up, sire prest," quod he, "and stonde by me; And for I wot wel ingot have ye noon, Goth, walkith forth, and brynge a chalk-stoon; For I wol make it of the same schap, That is an ingold, if I may have hap. And bringe with you a bolle or a panne Ful of water, and ye schul wel se thanne How that oure besynes schal happe and preve. 13140 18134. This line, as it stands in the Harl. MS., And whan the chanouns bechene cole, appears to be imperfect, although it is supported by the Lansdowne MS. I have ventured to add the word that from Tvi-v.lull, and to insert the c in chanounes, which had probably slipped out by the inadvertence of a scribe. And yit, for ye schul have no mysbileeve Ne wrong conceyt of me in youre absence, I ne wol nought ben out of youre presence, But go with you, and come with you agayn." The chambur dore, schortly for to sayn, Thay opened and schette, and wente here weye, And forth with hem they caryed the keye, And comen agayn withouten eny delay. What schuld I tary al the longe day? He took the chalk, and schop it in the wise 13150 Of an ingot, as I scha...