Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booklone by hem-selve. 2125 O, many a thousand tymes twelve Saugh I eek of these pardoneres, Currours, and eek messangeres, With boistes crammed ful of lyes As ever vessel was with lyes. (1040) 2130 And as I alther-fastest wente Aboute, and dide al myn entente Me for to pleye and for to lere, And eek a tyding for to here, That I had herd of som contree 2135 That shal not now be told for me;-- For hit no nede is, redely; Folk can singe hit bet than I; For al mot out, other late or rathe, Alle the sheves in the lathe;-- (1050) 2140 I herde a gret noise withalle In a corner of the halle, Ther men of love tydings tolde, And I gan thiderward beholde; For I saugh renninge every wight, 2145 As faste as that they hadden might; And everich cryed, 'What thing is that?' And som seyde, 'I not never what.' And whan they were alle on an hepe, Tho behinde gonne up lepe, (1060) 2150 And clamben up on othere faste, And up the nose on hye caste, And troden faste on othere heles And stampe, as men don after eles. Atte laste I saugh a man, 2155 Which that I [nevene] naught ne can; But he semed for to be A man of greet auctoritee.... (1068) 2158 (_Unfinished._) 1101. Cx. Th. thou; P. thow; F. nowe; B. now. 1102. Cx. P. now; Th. nowe; F. yowe; B. yow. 1105. Cx. to; _rest_ for to. 1106. F. B. men; _rest_ me. 1107. Cx. lawrer; Th. laurer. 1113. F. B. this; _rest_ the. 1114. F. citee; P. cite (= site); _rest_ cyte (= syte). 1115. F. hys (_for_ this). 1119. Cx. P. it; B. yt; F. Th. _om._ 1127. Th. I nyste; Cx. I ne wyst; P. I nust; F. B. nyste I neuer. 1132. F. B. fundament; _rest_ foundement. 1135. bilt = bildeth; Th. B. bylte. 1136. F. B. _om._ al; cf. l. 1151. 1145. Cx. Th. Were; _rest_ Was. 1154. F. B. folkes; _rest_ folk. 1155. F. tymes; _rest_ tyme. F. there; _rest_ they. 1156. Cx. Th. P. there; F. B. here. 1162. F. _om._ that. 1173. _I supply_ be. 1177. _Supply_ craft _from_ l. 1178, _where it occurs, after_ cast, _in_ Cx. Th. P. (Willert). 1178. F. To; _the rest_ The. 1185. Cx. Th. P. _ins._ the _before_ castel. 1189. F. Rabewyures _or_ Rabewynres; B. Rabewynnes; Cx. As babeuwryes; Th. As babeuries; P. Babeweuries. 1195. F. B. _om._ stoden. 1197. F. _om._ of. 1201. F. B. vpon; _rest_ on. 1202. F. B. sowneth; _rest_ sowned. 1204. P. Cx. his; Th. B. this; F. the. 1206. F. Eaycidis; P. Eaycides; Cx. Th. Gacides. 1208. B. bret; Th. Briton; Cx. Bryton; P. Bret_ur_; F. gret. 1210. F. Saten; B. Sate; Cx. Th. Sat; P. Sett; _read_ Seten. 1210, 1, 2, 4. F. hym (_for_ hem); P. hym (_in_ 1210 _only_); B. him (_in_ 1211, 2, 4). 1211. Cx. Th. P. gape; F. iape; B. yape. 1220. F. Cx. Th. B. to pipe; P. _om._ to. 1221. F. B. riede; _rest_ rede. 1222. Cx. Th. P. brede; B. Bryede; F. bride. 1227. F. Atiteris; B. Atyterys; Cx. Th. dan Cytherus; P. an Citherus. F. B. _transpose lines_ 1227 _and_ 1228. 1228. F. Pseustis; B. Pseustys; Cx. Th. proserus; P. presentus. 1233. F. B. fames; _rest_ famous. 1234. F. B. of alle; Th. of al; P. Cx. of. F. _om._ the. 1236. Cx. Th. Reyes; P. Reyþs; F. B. Reus. 1241. F. seight (!); _for_ fight. 1245. F. B. trumpe Ioab. 1255. Cx. Th. P. as now not; F. B. not now. 1259. Th. pleyeng; _rest_ pley; _read_ pleyen. 1262. F. wrecches (_wrongly_); for wicches. 1269. P. magyk; _rest_ magyke. 1270. F. B. syke; _rest_ seke. 1271. _All_ the. 1272. Cx. Th. P. Circes; F. Artes; B. Artys. 1273. _So in all._ 1274. Cx. Th. Lymote; F. Limete; B. Lumete; P. Llymote. 1275, 6. _From_ B.; F. _om. both lines_. P. hem; Cx. hym; B. Th. _om._ 1278. Th. Sycamour; F. B. Sygamour; Cx. Sycomour; P. Cicomour. 1283. F. B. y ther; _rest_ that I. 1285. F. B. folkys. 1286. B. I-holde; Cx. Th. P. holde; F. y-colde. 1287. Cx. P. eft; F. oft; B. all; Th. _om._ F. B. P. I mused. 1293. F. B. to; _rest_ forth. 1299. Cx. P. for; _rest_ more. 1301. B. this; _rest_ these; _see_ 1294. 1303. F. how they hat; B. how they hate; Cx. how the hackyng; P. Th. how the hackynge. 1304. Cx. Th. P. As corbettis(-es) and ymageries; B. As corbettz, full of ymageryes; F. As corbetz, _followed by a blank space_. 1309. F. hald; _rest_ hold (holde). 1315. Cx. Th. P. shoke; F. shoon; B. shone. 1316. F. B. As (_for_ And). 1317. P. Cx. lesynges; _rest_ losynges; _read_ losenges. 1318. F. frenges; B. Th. frynges. 1321. F. B. herauldes. 1326. F. crepen (!). 1327. P. wonderliche; _the rest_ wonderly. 1328. Cx. P. Alle though; F. Th. B. As though. 1332. Cx. Th. P. cotes; F. B. cote. 1335. F. B. _om._ as. 1349. F. B. litel; _rest_ lyte. 1350. B. thicke; Th. thyke; F. thik. 1351. P. Cx. Full; _rest_ Fyne. 1353. P. As; Cx. Th. Or as; F. B. Of. 1356. P. Cx. riche lusty; _rest_ lusty and riche. 1361. F. Sit; B. Syt; Cx. P. Sat; Th. Satte; _read_ Sitte. 1369. F. B. _om._ that. 1371. F. B. _omit_ semed be. 1372. _So_ Cx. Th. P.; F. B. _read_--This was gret marvaylle to me. 1373. _All_ wonderly; cf. l. 1327. 1374. F. B. erthe. 1377. F. B. _om._ to. 1404. F. synge; _rest_ songe. 1406. F. B. or; _rest_ and. 1411. Th. the armes; _rest_ armes; _read_ tharmes (i.e. th' armes). 1415. _All_ And thus. 1416. Cx. P. nobley; F. Th. B. noble (= noblee). 1421. F. peler; B. pylere. 1425. _I supply_ and hy. 1431. _All_ fyne. 1432. Cx. Hym that wrote thactes dyuyne; P. _om._; F. B. Th. Saturnyne. 1435. Cx. P. bare vpon; F. Th. B. he bare on. 1436. F. B. _om._ up. 1437. F. stonden; _rest_ stoden. 1442. P. Cx. Th. as of other merveilles. 1443. P. Cx. piler; F. B. pilere. 1444. _All_ here. 1450. F. B. a ful; _rest_ ful. 1456. F. B. stonde; Cx. Th. stande; P. stond. 1460. F. B. Tholausan; Th. Tholason; P. Tolofan; Cx. tholophan. 1477. _So_ Cx. Th. P.; F. B. seyde Omere was. 1483. _I supply_ dan; _see_ l. 1499. 1484. F. B. _omit_ a. 1492. F. And; _rest_ As; B. As I hit myght se with myn ye; P. Cx. Th. As I myght see it wyth myn ye. 1494. F. high the (= highthe); Cx. Th heyght; _see_ l. 744. 1498. F. sturmely. 1507. F. _om._ a. 1510. F. B. _om._ al. 1515. F. _inserts_ al of the _before_ olde; B. _inserts_ of the. 1527. _All_ in-to (_for_ in). 1530. F. alle skynnes; Cx. alle kyns. 1543. Cx. Th. grace (_for_ cause). 1546. F. B. _om. this line_. 1549. F. B. herke. 1551. Cx. Th. P. yet; F. B. right. 1553. Cx. Th. P. sayd; F. quod; B. quoth. 1570. F. B. Vpon the peyn to be blynde, _omitting_ l. 1572; Cx. Th. _om._ the. _Read_ Vp, _the usual idiom_. 1572. _In_ Cx. Th. _only_. 1585. F. B. _om._ that. 1594. F. B. clarioun; _see_ l. 1597. 1599. F. B. And (_for_ That). 1603. Cx. P. at; _rest_ to. 1609. F. B. _om._ now. 1614. F. B. _insert_ wel _after_ be. 1618. F. B. wete; _rest_ wote; _read_ wite. 1621. F. B. _om._ wel. 1623. Cx. Th. P. And thou dan; F. B. Haue doon. 1637. P. blak; F. B. blake. 1647. Cx. Th. P. swartysh; F. B. swart, swarte. 1657. B. thridde; F. thirdde. 1661. F. ben; _rest_ han. 1666. _All_ werkes, _pl.; see_ 1701. Th. That your good workes shal be wyst (_perhaps better_). 1668. F. B. _om._ Right. 1675. F. B. _om._ Al. 1682. F. B. Cx. Th. hath; P. have. 1686. _All_ of bawme; _omit_ of (Koch). 1701. werk] _all_ werkes (werkys); _se |