The tale of the basyn and the Frere and the boy, two early tales [in verse. Ed. by T. Wright.].1836 |
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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.
Page 5 - The frere ranne out at the gate, He was a ferde leest he came to late, He ranne fast and blyue. 210 Whan he came vpon the londe, Lytell lacke there he fonde, Dryuynge...
Page 1 - Ful lytell lust therto he had, But put it vp agayne ; Therfore he was not to wyte, He sayd he wolde ete but lyte, Tyll nyght that he home came. 60 And as the boye sate on a hyll, An olde man came hym tyll, Walkynge by the waye ; Sone, he sayde, god the se. Syr, welcome...