The Tale of the Basyn and The Frere and the Boy: Two Early Tales of Magic Printed from Manuscripts Preserved in the Public Library of the University of Cambridge, Issue 3Thomas Wright W. Pickering, 1836 - 58 pages |
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Page lviii - I shall do the sayne, He is but tender of age ; He shall abyde with me this yere, Tyll he be more strongere, 35 For to wynne better wage. We haue a man, a stoute freke, That in the felde kepeth our nete, Slepynge all the...
Page 3 - I have sytten metelesse All this daye kepynge your beestes, My dyner feble it was. His fader toke a capons wynge, And at the boye he gan it flynge, 155 And badde hym ete apace.