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

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XIV. (a) why come ye NAT TO COURTE? I4IOf our graunde counsell ?Icoulde say some-what,But speke ye no more <strong>of</strong> that,For drede <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> red hat380Take peper in <strong>the</strong> noseFor than thyne heed <strong>of</strong> goseOnes yet agayneOf you I wolde frayne,Why come ye nat <strong>to</strong> court \r—AltTo whyche court ?To <strong>the</strong> kynges courte,400Or <strong>to</strong> Hamp<strong>to</strong>n Court ?Nay, <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> kynges courtThe kynges courteShulde haue <strong>the</strong> excellence ;But Hamp<strong>to</strong>n Court405Hath <strong>the</strong> preemynence.And Yorkes Place,With my lordes grace,To whose magnifycenceIs all <strong>the</strong> conflewence,410Sutys and supplycacyons,Embassades <strong>of</strong> all nacyons.Strawe for lawe canon ^,Or for <strong>the</strong> lawe common,Or for lawe cyuyll415It shall be as he wyllS<strong>to</strong>p at law tancrete.An obstract ^ or a concrete ;^ 'conon' in Kele's ed. ;'canon' in o<strong>the</strong>rs." So : for ' abstract.'

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