Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

;;;:;102 X. THE NUT-BROWN MAID.Yet in siiche fere yf that ye were, amonge enemys day andnyght,I wolde wythstonde, wii/i bowe in hande, to greue them as Imyght,And you to saue, as wymen haue, from deth [men] manyoneFor in my mynde, of all man-kynde, I loue but you alone.'15.Yet take good hede, for euer I drede, that ye coude not•sustein 85The thorney wayes, //^e depe valeis, the snowe, //le frost, //lereyn,The colde, the hete ; for drye or wete, we must lodge on theplaynAnd, vs aboue \ noon other roue, but a brake, bussh, ortwayneW'hiche sone shulde greue you, I beleue, and ye wolde gladlyThat Ithan, 89had too the grene wode goo, alone, a banysshyd man.'16.'Syth I haue here ben partynere wzt/^ you of loy & blysse,1 muste also parte of your woo endure, as reason isVet am I sure of 00 plesure, and shortly it is this,That where ye bee, me semeth, perde, I coude not farea-mvsseWythout more speche, I you beseche, that we were soona-gone95For in my mynde, of all mankynde, I loue but you alone.'1 'above' Ball. MS.; 'a-bowe' Arnold.