Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

In a vellum book, known as The Red Book of Ossory , and preserved in the archives of that see, is contained a collection of Latin religious poetry, written in a good bold hand of the 14th century; prefixed to several of the hymns, in a contemporary and identical hand, are sometimes one sometimes more lines of a song in old English or Norman French, which as they occur I here give:
Alas hou shold y syng, yloren is my playnge
Hou sholdy wiz zat olde man}
} swettist of al zinge.
To leven and let my leman }
Harrow ieo su thy: p fol amo r de mal amy.
Have m r cie on me frere: Barfote zat ygo.
Do Do. nightyngale syng ful myrie
Shal y nevre for zyn love lengre karie.
Have God day me lemon, &c.
Gaveth me no garlond of greene,