Son icche herde þat mirie note, _Þ_ider I drogh; I fonde hire in an herber swot Vnder a bogh, With ioie inogh. 15 Son I asked: 'Þou mirie mai, Hwi sinkestou ai?' _Nou sprinkes, &c._ Þan answerde þat maiden swote Midde wordes fewe: 'Mi lemman me haues bihot 20 Of louue trewe: He chaunges anewe. _Y_iif I mai, it shal him rewe Bi þis dai.' _Nou sprinkes, &c._ [Foot-note: 4 Þis endre dai als I me rode _MS.; corr. Skeat_.] [Foot-note: 5 playinge] _indistinct_.] [Foot-note: 8 clingge] clingges _MS._] B. SPRING. MS. Harley 2253 (about 1325), f. 71 b. Lenten ys come wiþ loue to toune, Wiþ blosmen and wiþ briddes roune, Þat al þis blisse bryngeþ. Dayeseȝes in þis dales, Notes suete of nyhtegales, 5 Vch foul song singeþ. Þe þrestelcoc him þreteþ oo, Away is huere wynter wo, When woderoue springeþ. Þis foules singeþ ferly fele, 10 Ant wlyteþ on huere †wynter† wele, Þat al þe wode ryngeþ. Þe rose rayleþ hire rode, Þe leues on þe lyhte wode Waxen al wiþ wille. 15 Þe mone mandeþ hire bleo, Þe lilie is lossom to seo, Þe fenyl and þe fille. Wowes þis wilde drakes; †Miles† murgeþ huere makes, 20 Ase strem þat strikeþ stille. Mody meneþ, so do_þ_ mo— Ichot ycham on of þo, For loue þat likes ille. Þe mone mandeþ hire lyht; 25 So doþ þe semly sonne bryht, When briddes singeþ breme. Deawes donkeþ þe dounes; Deores wiþ huere derne rounes, Domes for te deme; 30 Wormes woweþ vnder cloude; Wymmen waxeþ wounder proude, So wel hit wol hem seme. Ȝef me shal wonte wille of on, Þis wunne weole y wole forgon, 35 Ant wyht in wode be fleme. [Foot-note: 22 doþ] doh _MS._] C. ALYSOUN. MS. Harley 2253, f. 63 b. Bytuene Mersh and Aueril, When spray biginneþ to springe, Þe lutel foul haþ hire wyl On hyre lud to synge. Ich libbe in loue-longinge 5 For semlokest of alle þynge; He may me blisse bringe— Icham in hire baundoun. _An hendy hap ichabbe yhent; Ichot from heuene it is me sent; 10 From alle wymmen mi loue is lent, And lyht on Alysoun._ On heu hire her is fayr ynoh, Hire browe broune, hire eȝe blake; Wiþ lossum chere he on me loh, 15 Wiþ middel smal and wel ymake. Bote he me wolle to hire take, For te buen hire owen make, Longe to lyuen ichulle forsake, And feye fallen adoun. 20 _An hendy hap, &c._