> It has more olde spelinyge for those like me
> who get a kick out of it. There are notes, too.
> mj
OK, cleverclogs, here's the "standard" Kenneth Muir Old Spelling text (and
if you can make any *remote* sense of Muir's editorial punctuation, you're a
better editor than me).
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R.
LIX Some tyme I fled the fyre that me brent
Some tyme I fled the fyre that me brent
By see, by land, by water and by wynd;
And now I folow the coles that be quent
From Dovor to Calais against my mynde.
Lo! how desire is boeth sprong and spent!
And he may se that whilome was so blynde;
And all his labor now he laugh to scorne.
Mashed in the breers that erst was all to torne.
Reproduced from the English Poetry Full-Text Database Copyright (c)
Chadwyck-Healey Ltd 1994
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