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Laurence Minot Quotes

1300–1350 England

Laurence Minot (1300? – 1352?) was an English poet. Nothing definite is known of him.

England
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Ihesu, for thi woundes five,
in Ingland help us to have pese.

Men may rede in romance right
Of a grete clerk that Merlin hight;
Ful many bokes er of him wreten,
Als thir clerkes wele may witten;
And yit in many prive nokes
May men find of Merlin bokes.

Oure king and his men held the felde
Stalwortly, with spere and schelde
And thoght to win his right,
With lordes and with knightes kene
And other doghty men bydene,
That war ful frek to fight.

Fro Philip the Valais was sir David sent
All Ingland to win fro Twede unto Trent

Merlin said thus with his mowth,
Out of the north into the sowth
Suld cum a bare over the se
That suld mak many man to fle;
And in the se, he said ful right,
Suld he schew ful mekill might;
And in France he suld bigin
To mak tham wrath that er tharein

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Laurence Minot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.