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

X. THE NUT-BROWN MAID. 105And though that I,of auncestry, a barons doughter bee,Yet haue you proued how I you loued, a squyer of lowedegree, 130And euer shal, what so befalle, to dey therfore a-noonFor in my mynde, of al mankynde, I loue but you alone.'23.'Abarons childe to be begyled, it were a curssed dedeTo be felow mtk an out-lawe, almyghty god for-bede !Yet bettyr were the pore^ squyer alone to forest yede, 135Than ye shal saye, another day, that be my^ wyked dedeYe were betrayed ; wherfore, good maide, the best red[e]that ^ I can.Is, that I too the grene wode goo, alone, a banysshed man.'*24.'Whatso-euer be-falle, I neuer shal of this thing you vpbraid,But yf ye goo and leue me soo, than haue ye me betraied;, '4°Remembre you wele how that ye dele, for yf ye, as ye*sayde,Be so vnkynde, to leue behynde your loue, the notbrownemaide.Trust me truly that I shal ^dey, sone after ye be gone,For in my mynde, of all man-kynde, I loue but you alone.'25.'Yef that ye went, ye shulde repent, for in the forest now 1451 haue purueid me of a maide, whom I loue more thaw you.Another fayrer than euer ye were, I dare it wel auowe1So in Ball, and Percy MSS, ; Arnold has ' power.'2 *my' supplied from Balliol MS. ^ mS. ' that'; Arnold ' the.'*MS. 'ye'; Arnold 'the.' ^ 'shal' supplied from Ball. MS.