Volume 2

The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity college, Cambridge / A descriptive catalogue by Montague Rhodes James.

  • Wren Library
Date:
1900-04
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity college, Cambridge / A descriptive catalogue by Montague Rhodes James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ends 52. Dethe all consumythe which may not be denyed. Explicit. In a rather better hand. Of the iiij complexions ........ Sangidneiis, Natura pingues isti sunt atque jocantes. Ends. Thou shall hym know bi visage pale and wan. Expl. iiij complexions. 53 54 blank. In the first hand ? Here begynneth the Boke called Assemble de Damys. [By Chaucer (xvii)] ......... 55 See Skeat Chaucerian and other pieces^ p. 38. In Septembre at the fallyng of the leef. Ends 65 b. Rede well my dreme for now my tale ys doon. Here endeth the book of Assemble de Damys. f. 66 is blank. Two 7-line stanzas, marked vacat as being a fragment. . . 67 The vnware woo that comweth on gladnesse. Ending Better ys to dy then lyue in suche penaunce. Here foloweth the Interpretacion of the names of goddys and goddesses as ys rehersyd in y® tretyse folowyng as poet/j write . 67 b Phebus ys as moche to sey as y® Sonne. Atropos Dethe. [Banquet of Gods and Goddesses by Lydgate] .... 68 When Phebus in the Crabbe had nere hys cours ronne. Ends 97 Graunt eternall ioy after thy last sentence. Amen. La bell dame saunce mercy [by Chaucer] ..... 98 (Skeat l.c. p. 299. By Sir Richard Ros.) Halfe in a dreme not fully well awakyd. Ends 108 b I pray god sende hem bettyr auenture. Expl. labelL dame saunce mercy. The X Commaundments of loue [by Chaucer] . . . . 109 Certes fer extendeth my Reason. Ends. And call hym in to your Remembraunce, Expl. the X com;/^andmentes of loue. The ix ladyes worthy [by Chaucer] . . . . . . wob Prefulgent in pretyoussnes O synope the quene. Ends. Ouercame and venquysshed theym in batayle.