ENGLISH AND NORMAN SONGS OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

In a vellum book, known as *The Red Book of Ossory*, and preserved in the archives of that see, is contained a collection of Latin religious poetry, written in a good bold hand of the 14th century; prefixed to several of the hymns, in a contemporary and identical hand, are sometimes one sometimes more lines of a song in old English or Norman French, which as they occur I here give: "Alas hou shold y syng, yloren is my playnge Hou sholdy wiz zat olde man} } swettist of al zinge." To leven and let my leman } "Harrow ieo su thy: p fol amor de mal amy." "Have mrcie on me frere: Barfote zat ygo." "…