Ffare wele, Jak Jawdewyne, I thee God bitake; I thee rede to preche. To lower state than thei ben thou maist hem not dryve, and if thei evere come to hizer, the wers shal thou thryve. Explicit dictamen fratris Daw Topias, quem in fine appellat Johannem Walssingham, contra quæstiones Johannis Uplond. ON THE EXECUTION OF RICHARD SCROPE, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.1 June 8, 1405. Quis meo capiti dabit effundere, Et fonte lachrymas multum suffundere, Per dies noctesque aquas deducere, Deflenti mortem præsulis? Quid mirum effluam totus in lachrymas, Defleam, lugeam tantas misereas, Sancti Paracleti sacra solemnitas Concursu gaudent temporis. Secunda feria post lucis medium Ricardus Angliæ primas ad gladium Ducitur, cæditur, migrans ad gaudium Commutat ima superis. From MS. Cotton. Faustina B. ix. fol. 242, vo. Pastor perducitur plebis præsentia, Ingressus quam præposterus. Judex præpotens, nulla dilatio, Gravis sententiæ præceps probatio, Nil ergo conscius præsul non resonat, Ne Christus noxam statuas. Hæ habent voces vacuas. Locus sententiæ, patris palatium ; Cessavit penitus sellæ solatium, Capistro frænum cesserat. Tunc ait pontifex, despectus congruit, Hunc mundi Dominus Christus sustinuit, Solatur comitem adolescentulum, Coruscus comes angelis. Fel, ferula, virgula satis sufficerent, Furentem frameam si non adjicerent; Fœdam infamiam sic procul pellerent, Vulgatam regnis singulis. Proh dolor parvulum ense percutiunt ; Proh pudor sanguinem proprium polluunt Proh nefas patriæ primatem perimunt, VOL. II. Polluti parricidio. H 2 + Flexis poplitibus post pacis osculum Mitis in moribus, in pudicitia Castus, virtutibus clarus, scientia Lucidus, stabilis in patientia, Vernat laude multiplici. Baptismus sanguinis, fluminis, flaminis, Ast Thomam militum audax atrocitas, Obtruncant christos Domini. Annus millenus quadringentesimus Quintus erat Christo patri novissimus, Cunctorum Deus præscius. Factorum Dei nescius. Scriptura sacra recitat. Si causæ subeant, Deus, ecclesia, Pie præsumitur pro patientia Omnia vincit caritas. Non queunt cætera pœnarum genera, Omnia suffert caritas. Thesaurus tollitur, vasaque cætera, Omnia fiscus occupat. Non datur corporis funeri lintheus, Pietas prorsus exulat. Poena progreditur familiaribus, Census indicitur, nudantur opibus, Nec veris creditur probationibus, Venenum est his venia. Post hæc extenditur poena in plebibus Nemini parcitur, sed innocentibus Ingrata datur gratia. Anglorum recolens prima fastigia, Mutata miror prospera. Materna rodit viscera. Ignavi exteris bellis hostilibus Cædunt se mutuo plus quam civilibus, Trucidis, horridis, innaturalibus, Cognato madent sanguine. Orbatur regio inclitis ducibus, Rarus fortis in agmine. Quis mihi tribuat ut annos pristinos In forma pacis finiam. O summa Deitas, qui cœlis inseris, Beatus dona veniam. Amen. ON THE DEATH OF HENRY IV.1 By Thomas of Elmham. Incipit epistola sacra theologiæ professoris magistri O rex mi domine, sæpe quæ tibi scribere duxi, From the Bodleian Library, MS. Rawlinson, No. 214, fol. 134, r. The writer of these lines, Thomas of Elmham, is well known to historians by his prose history of the reign of Henry V., printed by Hearne; by a history of the monastery of St. Augustine at Canterbury, of which Mr. Hardwick has recently given us an edition; and by his summary of the history of the same reign in Latin verse, the latter edited by Mr. C. A. Cole, in his "Memorials of Henry the Fifth, |