Today’s puzzle pictured above for the Paleographical Challenge.  Suggested solution to yesterday’s puzzle shown below:

…
Twere better for me y^t winter did
          benight y^e glory of this place
          And y^t a gray frost would forbid
These trees to laugh & mock me to my face
          But I may not this disgrace

                                                         Endure 

Scribal compilation of poems by John Donne and others.  England, ca. 1620.  Osborn b114, f. 258v.