Category: Poetry

Cocke Lorelles Bote

Anonymous; Edmond, John Philip, 1850-1906 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Worde, Wynkyn de, -1535? [Other]· 2 chapters· 4,162 words

The singularly interesting fragment of early English literature known as Cocke Lorelles Bote, is a satirical poem of four hundred and fourteen lines, in which various classes of society, chiefly of the lower order, are passed under review in rapid succession. The glimpse we ob...

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* * * * * * * She had a desyre ofte to be wedde B. i. _a._ And also to lye in an other mannes bedde Lytell rought she therfore She is as softe as a lamme yf one do her meue And...

1. Part 1

The singularly interesting fragment of early English literature known as Cocke Lorelles Bote, is a satirical poem of four hundred and fourteen lines, in which various classes of...