 | Songs, Carols, and other Miscellaneous Poems, from the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace book |  |
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56. An old sawe hath be fownd trewe:
Cast not away thyn old for newe.
1
An old said sawe: “On-knowen, on-kyste”;“Wher is lytill love þer is lytill tryste”;
And ever beware of “Had I wyste,”
And remembre this sawe, for it is new:
Ellis must we drynk as we brewe.
2
The peple to plese, sir, it is payn,Peraventure amonge XXti not twayn;
Hold me excused, thowgh I be playn.
This sawe is old, remembre it newe,
Or ellis most we drynk as we brewe.
3
An-other thynge, sir, marke we well,Two facis in on hode, a fayre castell;
He seyth hym-self he will not medyll;
Folk fayre lest seche in cowrt to shew,
& ellis most we drynk as we brew.
4
Thyn old seruantis here thus ar meved;The tyme wyll cum they must be releved;
Geve trust to them þat thow hast preved,
& if þou do so, thow shalt not rewe,
& ellis must þou drynk as þou doste brewe.
Explicit.
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