Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and Others in the Fifteenth Century

20 ELINOURE AND JUG A.
See ! see ! upon the grounde he bleedynge lies ;
Inhild 8 some joice * of lyfe, or else mie deare love dies*
J U G A.
Systers in sorrowe, on thys daife-ey'd banke, 15
"Where melancholych broods, we wyll lamente ;
Be wette wythe mornynge dewe and evene danke j
Lyche levynde 10 okes in eche the odher bente,
Or lyche forlettenn 11 halles of merriemente,
Whose gastlie mitches 11 holdethetraineof fryghte Ij,20
Where lethale '4 ravens bark, and owlets wake the
nyghte*
No moe the miikynette 15
[ELINOURE.]
shall wake the morne,
The minstrclle daunce, good cheere, and morryce plaie J
No moe the amblynge palfrie and the horne
Shall from the lessel 16 rouze the foxe awaie ; 25
I'll seke the foreste allethe lyvc-longe daie ;
» ' infuse. 9 juice. 10 blasted. 11 forsaken. 11 ruins.