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

34JII- JOHN LVDGATE.;;Verray heuenly of inspecciozm. 1235And firstof al he alyght down,The goodly place whan that he byheldAnd fro his nek he voyded hath his sheld,Drogh the brydyl from his horses hede,Let hym goon, and took no maner hede, 1240Thorgh the gardyn that enclosed wasHym to pasture on the grene grasAnd Tydeus, mor hevie than is led,Vpon the herbes grene, white, & red,As hym thought that tyme for the best, 1245He leid hym doune forto tak his rest.Of werynesse desirous to slepe,And non awayt his body forto kepe,And with dremes grocched eu^ramong.Ther he lay to the larke song 1250With notes newe, hegh vp in the ayr^The glade morowe, rody & right fayr,Phebus also casting vp his hemes,The heghe ^ hylles gilt with his stremes,The syluer dewe vpon the herbes rounde, 1255Ther Tydeus lay vpon the ground^",At the vprist of the shene svnne,And stouwdmele his grene ^ woundes rvnneRound about, that the soyl depeyntOf the grene with the rede meynt. - 1260Hou Ligurgus* doghter fond Tydeus sleping in theherber alforwounded.And euiry morowe, for hoolsomnesse of eyre,Lygurg/Af doghter maked her repeyr,' MS. ' hayr.' 2 ^rin. MSS. ' hie,' ' hye'; Ar. ' hegh.^ Trill. MSS. 'grene'; Ar. ' gren.' *MS. ' Barurgus."