Text 74: The Boke Of Mawndevile

Page 238. Freeborn.

ORIGINAL TEXT

…That bereth applis grete plente
And who þat cleueth an appul atwyn
A litille beest he fyndith thereyn.
To a litille beest lombe liche it ys
Of bloode and bone and eke of flessh
And welle shapen ate folle
In al thinge saufe it hath noo wolle
And men and women þere meest and leest
Eten of þat frute so with þat beest.

MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

…That bore apples great plant, and the person who cut an apple in two a little criature he found there, like a little lamb. Of blood and bone and also of flesh, and well shaped in every way. In all
things say it has no wool. And men and women there most and least eat that fruit so with that creature.