The Mediaeval Stage (Volume 2); Book Iii. Religious Drama. Book Iv. the Interlude. Appendices - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1903. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... u interludium de clerico et puella Printed by Wright and Halliwell, Reliquiae Ant/quae (1841), i. 145, from an early fourteenth-century ms., then belonging to the Rev. R. Yerburgh, of Sleaford. On the piece and its sources in the Latin, French, and English fabliaux of Dame Siriz, cf. Ten Brink, i. 255; ii. 295; Jusserand, Lit. Hist. i. 446. Ten Brink assigns the dramatic text, which is in the South Northumbrian dialect, to the reign of Edward I (12721307) Hie incipit Interludium de Clerico el Puella. Scene 1. Clericus. Damishel, reste wel. Puella. Sir, welcum, by Saynt Michel 1 Clericus. Wer esty sire, wer esty dame? Puella. By Gode, es noner her at hame. Clericus. Wel wor shilc a man to life, That suile a may mithe have to wyfe 1 Puella. Do way, by Crist and Leonard, No wily lufe, na clerc fayllard, Na kepi herbherg, clerc, in huse no y flore Bot his hers ly wit-uten dore. Go forth thi way, god sire, For her hastu losye al thi wile. Clericus. Nu, nu, by Crist and by sant Jhon, In al this land ne wis hi none, Mayden, that hi luf mor than the, Hif me mithe ever the bether be. For the by sory nicht and day, Y may say, hay wayleuay! Y luf the mar than mi lif, Thu hates me mar than gayt dos chuief. That es noute for mys-gilt, Certhes, for thi luf ham hi spilt A, suythe mayden, reu ef me That es ty luf, hand ay salbe. For the luf of the y mod of erne; Thu mend thi mode, and her my stevene. Puella. By Crist of heven and sant Jone! Clerc of scole ne kepi non; For many god wymman haf thai don scam. By Crist, thu michtis haf be at hame. Clericus. Synt it nothir gat may be, Jhesu Crist, by-tethy the, And send neulit bot thar inne, That thi be lesit of al my pyne. Puella. Go nu, truan, go nu, go, For mikel thu canstu of sory and wo. Scene 2. Clericus. God te blis, Mome Hel...