"A Fable of a wryght that was maryde to a pore
wydows dowtre the whiche wydow havyng
noo good to geve with her gave as for
a precyous Johet to hym a Rose
garlond / the whyche sche affermyd
wold never fade while sche

kept truly her wedlok."

A Merry Tale, by Adam of Cobsam,

From a MS. in the Library of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
at Lambeth, about 1462 A.D.

COPIED AND EDITED BY

FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL.

[Second Edition, rebised, 1869.]

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