Post by jeannerené on Dec 15, 2007 21:22:33 GMT -8
I've just been browsing through Old English and Middle English links. I've always found the history of the English language fascinating and will probably posts some poems in O. E. and M.E. from time to time. Enjoy.............!!
The Middle English Collections
etext.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html
Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?.
A minor poem of Robert Henryson
From:
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
The garmont of gud ladeis
1: Wald my gud lady lufe me best
2: And wirk eftir my will
3: I suld ane garmond gudliest
4: Gar mak hir body till
5: Off he honour suld be hir hud
6: Vpoun hir heid to weir
7: Garneist with gouirnance so gud
8: Na demyng suld hir deir
9: Hir sark suld be hir body nixt
10: Of chestetie so quhyt
11: With schame and dreid togidder mixt
12: The same suld be perfyt
13: Hir kirtill suld be of clene constance
14: Lasit with lesum lufe
15: The mailzeis of continwance
16: For nevir to remvfe
17: Hir gown suld be of gudlines
18: Weill ribband with renowne
19: Purfillit with plesour in ilk place
20: Furrit with fyne fassoun
21: Hir belt suld be of benignitie
22: Abowt hir middill meit
23: Hir mantill of humilitie
24: To tholl bayth wind and weit
25: Hir hat suld be of fair having
26: And hir tepat of trewth
27: Hir patelet of gud pansing
28: Hir hals ribbane of rewth
29: Hir slevis suld be of esperance
30: To keip hir fra dispair
31: Hir gluvis of gud gouirnance
32: To gyd hir finzearis fair
33: Hir schone suld be of sickernes
34: In syne that scho nocht slyd
35: Hir hois of honestie i ges
36: I suld for hir provyd
37: Wald scho put on this garmond gay
38: I durst sweir by my seill
39: That scho woir nevir grene nor gray
40: That set hir half so weill
The Middle English Collections
etext.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html
Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?.
A minor poem of Robert Henryson
From:
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
The garmont of gud ladeis
1: Wald my gud lady lufe me best
2: And wirk eftir my will
3: I suld ane garmond gudliest
4: Gar mak hir body till
5: Off he honour suld be hir hud
6: Vpoun hir heid to weir
7: Garneist with gouirnance so gud
8: Na demyng suld hir deir
9: Hir sark suld be hir body nixt
10: Of chestetie so quhyt
11: With schame and dreid togidder mixt
12: The same suld be perfyt
13: Hir kirtill suld be of clene constance
14: Lasit with lesum lufe
15: The mailzeis of continwance
16: For nevir to remvfe
17: Hir gown suld be of gudlines
18: Weill ribband with renowne
19: Purfillit with plesour in ilk place
20: Furrit with fyne fassoun
21: Hir belt suld be of benignitie
22: Abowt hir middill meit
23: Hir mantill of humilitie
24: To tholl bayth wind and weit
25: Hir hat suld be of fair having
26: And hir tepat of trewth
27: Hir patelet of gud pansing
28: Hir hals ribbane of rewth
29: Hir slevis suld be of esperance
30: To keip hir fra dispair
31: Hir gluvis of gud gouirnance
32: To gyd hir finzearis fair
33: Hir schone suld be of sickernes
34: In syne that scho nocht slyd
35: Hir hois of honestie i ges
36: I suld for hir provyd
37: Wald scho put on this garmond gay
38: I durst sweir by my seill
39: That scho woir nevir grene nor gray
40: That set hir half so weill
