Anonymous Olde English Poems

If breath were made for every man to buy,
The poor man could not live, rich would not die.
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Christ Church MS.

HEY nonny no!
Men are fools that wish to die!
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Over the mountains
And over the waves,
Under the fountains
And under the graves;
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When shawes been sheene, and shradds full fayre,
And leeves both large and longe,
Itt is merry, walking in the fayre forrest,
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The First Part

In Venice towne not long agoe
A cruel Jew did dwell,
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In a valley of this restles mind
I sought in mountain and in mead,
Trusting a true love for to find.
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AND the lord of earls, to each that came
with Beowulf over the briny ways,
an heirloom there at the ale-bench gave,
precious gift; and the price bade pay
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BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"Lo, now, this sea-booty, son of Healfdene,
Lord of Scyldings, we've lustily brought thee,
sign of glory; thou seest it here.
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Forth gone the virgyns euerychone
Replet with ioye/and eke felicite
To gether floures. And some vnto one
Haue more fantasy/whan they it se
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1. Rise, oh my Soul, with thy desires to Heaven,
And with Divinest contemplation, use
Thy time, where times eternity is given,
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