A'fouhj for-welked5 thing w«m ‘■he,’
* s '1 hat whilom round Tt hfcurht,, j\,
- Her'heeres shoken'fast
Asffaotn h(i hfad Ihc > would
■ t'H er tai f* frounce d and for-pinwl J *
And both her bonds lorne for-dwined.
So old she was thatshq'aipreEt -
At&tfebut it were By potent ” (l^er. with a staff), f
Lfiit of all, and apart pyin- the rest, wa,s the-figure of.Eo
“ She ne had on but a straite old. sacke, ■ •
And many a* clqnfiwj^ititOLeKB stacke; 11
„ This was her cote, and her mantele,
Nasraore-was th'ereinever, a jdelefv ^
, " -To doath her 'with; I undertake,
\ Great leaser had she'to quakert^ -
And she was put, that I of talke,.
_ Thn®fro these othegru p in anhalkej
There lnrked and there conred'shej
^dagpSSre „thyng, wheret so
Is shamefast and despised aie. -'
“ Accursed may well be that daie, -
That poore man .conceived isVl” %
Our initial letter D, not inappropriate" in its' desigff-to■tjxf^ul
and roses, is taken from a copy of the"Offices of i Ik t# Vi ruin. imnri_r ^
MSS, at Oxford, of the latter end of the fifteenth Geji|ijiify. The ^ p ^ g ^ p l e
fountain-afc the foot of this page forms one of ’ the.einbel'li'ihi nenti
of the reign of Edward V, (MS. Reg. 15, E, m)r "
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