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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance

Note 272 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 3)

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That one in verse, with a mixture of English words. Ha! says the peasant:

Ha thu mi swete bird, ego te comedam.

"Early Mysteries and other Latin poems of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries," ed. Th. Wright, London, 1838, 8vo, p. 97. Cf. G. Paris, "Lai de l'Oiselet," Paris, 1884.

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