Social life in Britain from the conquest to the reformation / compiled by G.G. Coulton.

  • George Gordon Coulton
Date:
1918
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Credit: Social life in Britain from the conquest to the reformation / compiled by G.G. Coulton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ful of pley, fremen well worthy to pleye; fre men, fre tonges, hert fre; free heelth al the leden1; here2 lond is more fre, more better than here tonge. Straunge men that needeth, That lond wel ofte releveth. Whan hunger greveth, That lond alle suche men fedeth, (p. 21.) In londe, in stronde Wel wyde men speketh of Engelonde; Lond, hony, melk, chese, This ilond schal bere the prys. Of alle londes riches this lond hath nede to noon; Alle londes moot seche helpe nedes of this allone. (p. 23.) In Bretayn, beeth many wondres; nevertheles foure beeth most wonderful. The firste is at Pectoun [the Peak of Derby shire]; there bloweth so strong a wynde out of chenes3 of the earth, that it casteth up agen clothes that men casteth yn. The secounde is at Ston-henge by sides Salisbury; there beeth grete stones and wonder huge, and beeth arered an high as hit were gates i-sette uppon other gates ; notheles hit is nought clereliche i-knowe nother perceyved how and wherfore they beeth so arered and so wonderlicche i-honged. The thridde is at Cherdhole [Cheddar\\ there is grete holow- nesse under erthe; of meny men haveth i-walked therynne and i-seie ryveres and stremes; but nowher konneth they fynd non ende. The ferthe is that reyn is y-seie arered uppon the hilles and noon i-spronge aboute in thefeeldes. Also there is a grete ponde that conteyneth thre score ylondes covenable for men to dwelle ynne; that pond is i-clipped aboute with sixe roches ; uppon everich roche is an egles nest. And thre score ry veres renneth into that pond; and noon of them alle renneth into the see, but 0011. There is a pond i-closed aboute with a wal of tyle and of stoon. In that pond men wascheth and batheth wel ofte; and everiche man feleth the water hoote or colde, right as he wolde hymself. There beeth salt welles fer fram the see, and beeth salte alle the woke longe, forto Saturday at none; and fresche from Saturday at 1 folk. 2 their. 3 clefts.
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