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THE KINASTON MANUSCRIPT.
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61.
‘ Where is thy garden with thy greces gay1
And fresh floures, w^/ch the queene Floraie
Had painted pleasantly in euery pane ?
Where thou were wont full merrily in May
To walke and take the dew be it was day,
And here the Merle & Mauis many one
With ladies faire in carolling to gone.
61.
‘ Vbi sunt horti semitis vallati,
Quos herbis redolentibus pinxit Flora,
Et floribus diuersis variegati ?
Quibus solebas matutina hora
Spatiari recens nata dum Aurora,
Audire Maues Merulas cantantes
Et dominarum vocibus concordantes.
62.
‘ This leper lodge take for thy goodly boure,
And for thy bed take now a bunch of stro;
For wailed wine & meater thou hadst tho
Take mouled bread, pirate, & sider soure:
But cuppe and clapper is all now ago.2
p. 502. 62.
‘ Pro aula hoc tugurium leprosum
Habe, & fascem straminis pro cubile;
Pro cibis lautis frustum hoc pannosum,
Pro vino zythum vapidum & vile;
Mendici sume cantharum & sedile;
Pro vestimentis auro relucentibus
Te oportet indui tramis his olentibus.
1 MS. ‘braue.’ Kinaston deliberately discards ‘gay’ through misunder¬
standing ‘ pane, ’ which is corrected to ‘paue.’ See Supplementary Note C,
p. clxii.
2 The text is here imperfect, as in Thynne. Kinaston was not unnaturally
perplexed by the ‘ pie ’ of Thynne’s text, where, apart from the muddle after 1.
437i several of the stanzas appear as eight-lined, by the omission of the last line.
The break at stanza 62 throws the numbering out. ‘ 63 ’ is ‘ 64 ’ in Charteris
and Thynne (and Speght), and Kinaston’s last stanza is numbered ‘80.’