The Caxton club scrap-book Author:John Vance Cheney Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: With lossom eye grete ant gode, With browen blysfol underhode, He that reste him on the rode, That leflych lyf honoure. Blou, northern wynd, etc. Hire lur... more »e lumes liht Ase a launterne a nyht, Hire bleo blykyeth so bryht, So feyr heo is ant fyn. A suetly suyre heo hath to holde, With armes shuldre ase mon wolde, Ant fyngres feyre forte folde, God wolde hue were myn ! Blou northern wynd, etc. Heo is coral of godnesse, Heo is rubie of ryhtfulnesse, Heo is cristal of clairnesse, Ant baner of bealte. Heo is Ulie of largesse, Heo is parvenke of prouesse Heo is solsecle of suetnesse Ant lady of lealte. For hire love y carke ant care, For hire love y droupne ant dare, For hire love my blisse is bare Ant al ich waxe won, For hire love in slep yslake, For hire love al nyht ich wake, For hire love mournyng y make More then eny mon. Blou northern wynd! Send thou me my suetyng ! Blou, northern wynd, blou, blou, blou ! chapter{Section 4MIRRY MARGARET MIRRY Margaret, As mydsomer flowre; Gentill as fawcoun Or hawke of the towre: With solace and gladness, Moche mirthe and no madness, All good and no badness, So joyously, So maydenly, So womanly, Her demenyng In everythynge Far, far passyng That I can endyght, Or suffyce to wryghte, Of mirry Margarete, As mydsomer flowre, Gentyll as fawcoun Or hawke of the towre, As pacient and as styll, And as full of good-wyll As faire Isaphill; Colyaunder, Swete pomaunder, Goode Cassaunder; Stedfast of thought, Wele made, wele wrought; Far may be sought, Erst that ye can fynde So corteise, so kynde, As miny Margaret, This mydsomer floure, Gentyll as faucoun Or hawke of the towre. SEE where she sits upon the grassie greene, (O seemely sight !) Yclad in Scarlot, like a mayden Queene, And ermin...« less