The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Horstmann, Carl, b. 1851., Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.

Quod donare potes, gratis concede roganti; Nam gratis fecisse bonis, in parte*. [[recte f. b., in parte. V. R.]]lucrosum est.

141.
Ceo qi poies doner,
Doneȝ de bon quer
A ly ke quert aye;
kar fere debonerement
Ben a bone gent,
Gayn est enpartye.
¶ Þat þou maiȝt with rihte ȝef,
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To pore þou graunte at nede;
And ȝif þou not þe riche mon,
Þer is no soule mede.
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