An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,

XXVIII.

                                      ¶ Meruel ȝe not of þis makyng,
                                      Line 352 
                                    
                                      y me excuse, hit is not I.
                                    
                                      Þus [MS. þs.]  mychael lad powle, be goddis bedyng,
                                    
                                      To se in hel þe turmentré,
                                    
                                      Fore I couþ neuer bot hy foly;
                                      Line 356 
                                    
                                      God haþ me chastyst fore my leuyng,
                                    
                                      I þonke my god my grace treuly
                                    
                                      Of his gracious vesityng;
                                    
                                      Be-ware serys, I ȝou pray,
                                      Line 360 
                                    
                                      And ȝour mysdedis loke ȝe amend
                                    
                                      Be-tyme, lest ȝe be chamyd and schend,
                                    
                                      fore al is good þat haþ good end
                                    
                                      Þus counsels ȝoue þe blynd audlay. [John Audelay, the blind poet.] 
                                      Line 364

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Title: An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,
Author: Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894.
Canvas: Page 222
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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