Page:Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918.djvu/74

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ANONYMOUS

(ii) Bridal Morning

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The maidens came When I was in my mother's bower; I had all that I would. The bailey beareth the bell away The lily, the rose, the rose I lay. The silver is white, red is the gold; The robes they lay in fold. The bailey beareth the lull away; The lily, the rose, the rose I lay. And thro the glass window shines the sun. How should I love, and I so young? The bailey beareth the lull away; The lily, the rose, the rose I lay.

31 The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring

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WESTERN wind, when will thou blow The small rain down can rain? Christ, if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!


32 The Nut-Brown Maid

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He. BE it right or wrong, these men among On women do complain, Affirming this, how that it is A labour spent in vain


32 among] sometimes.