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Thopas and Guy of Warwick ’ in Long, P. W. ed, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown , New York: New York University Press, pp. 111-128. Reprinted in Adventures in the Middle Ages , New York: Burt Franklin,

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shortened translation of the description of the Holy Land and Egypt at the beginning of book three of J. de Vitry, Historia orientalis . f. 131r Cest la conisaunce de les Armes des Roys French The arms of twenty-five kings

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of Fraunce, Of kniȝtes þat were in destaunce, þat dyed þurth dint of sward:, Of Rouland & of Oliuer, & of þe oþer dusseper,, Of Alisander & Charlmeyn, & Ector þe gret werrer, & of Danys le fiz Oger,,

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of Witt, Sir Beues of Hamtoun, The Seven Sages of Rome and Guy of Warwick (different version). BL Egerton MS 2862 (olim Trentham-Sutherland). Late 14th century. Suffolk. Fragments. Egerton also has in common with Auchinleck: King Richard, Sir Beues

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of England, Camden Society, 6 (London: Nichols, 1839). Re-issued by P. R. Coss (ed. and intro.), Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). D. Laing, Owain Miles (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1837). Index 1857. The Sayings

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he;, þilke of Baþe he hadde also, , þat at Welles wonede þo;, þilke of Chichester & of Winchester,, & eke þe bischop of Excester, þe fift was, wiþouten feyle,, At Seyn Jermain in Cornewaile., þe king of Merken merche,,

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C. Horstmann, 'Life of Adam and Eve', Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge (Heilbronn: Henninger, 1878; reprinted Hildeshein and New York: G. Olms, 1969): 139-147. Corrections in: A. J. Bliss, 'The Auchinleck Life of Adam and Eve', Review of English Studies, ns

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com out of þe diche,, Of rede gold y-arched riche;, þe vousour was anow[rn]ed al, Of ich maner diuers aumal., Wiþin þer wer wide wones, Al of precious stones., þe werst piler on to biholde, Was al of burnist gold.,

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miche sche seyȝe of gamen & gle., & al þat trowed on Jhesu Crist,, wel sori men sche seiȝe hem be:, Or þai schuld make sacrifise, to his maumet, was maked of tre, & of ston & of bras,, oþer

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welle is of mochel pris;, þe strem com fram Paradis,, þe grauel in þe grounde of preciouse stone,, & (and) of vertu, iwis, echone;, Of saphires and of sardoines,, Of oneches and of calsidoines,, Nou is þe waie of so

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he were king wiþ croun,, þre hundred pounde of gold, Ich ȝer out of toun,, Of siluer fair yfold, þre hundred pounde al boun,, Of mone of a mold,, þre hundred pounde of latoun, Schuld he;, þe ferþ ȝere –

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schel singe;, Of a kniȝt ich wile ȝow roune,, Beues a hiȝte of Hamtoune,, Wiþouten lesing., Ich wile ȝow tellen al togadre, Of þat kniȝt and of is fadre,, Sire Gii., Of Hamtoun he was sire, And of al þat

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þan, & douȝtiest of dede?’, Her maidens gan answere ogain, & seyd ‘madame, we schul þe sain, þat soþe bi seyn Sauour,, Of erls, barouns, kniȝt & swain, þe fairest man & mest of main, & man of mest honour,

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Sum soþ tidinges of þe way,, ȝif he herd neye oþer fer, Speken of batayle & of wer., ‘Ichil þe telle’ he seyd ‘fot-hot, Of al þe wer þat y wot;, þer of is mani man aferd,, Of stronger sorwe

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Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail Richard Dove of Buckfast, John Metham, and others England