PASSUS XVI. (DO-WEL VI.)
[TITLE. So in KG; S omits passus; M prefixes Hic; PE omit de dowel; IT have—Passus quintus de visione, vt supra.] Incipit passus sextus [de dowel].
ANd ich awakede þer-with · wittlees ner hande; [A page 210]
As a frek þat feye were · forth gan ich walke [As] And as ITG. feye] feiȝe M; vey E. walke] fare S.]
In manere of a mendinaunt · meny ȝeres after. [In] In þe M. ȝeres] ȝer ITG; ȝere K. after] þeraftir T.]
And meny tyme of þis meteles · muche þouhte ich hadde; [And] In I. tyme] tymes IMT.]
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Furst, how fortune me failede · at my moste neede, [moste] ferste T.]
And how elde manacede me · so myghte happe, [so—happe] so longe myghte ich happe PE; but IMKSG omit longe and ich, which seem to have been acci|dentally caught from l. 7; T has—so miȝty hap he hadde.]
Þat, yf ich lyuede longe · leue me by-hynde, [lyuede IMKSTG] lyued E; leuede (badly) P. leue, &c.] so in all but G; to leue G.]
And vanshie alle myne vertues · and myne faire lockes. [G omits. vanshie] so PE; van|yssche IKS; vanisshe T; vanessche M. faire] fale E. lockes] lotus (per|haps for locus) I; lotes T.]
And how þat freres folweden · folk þat was ryche, [þat] M om. folweden] folewide faste T.]
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And peuple þat was poure · at lytel prys setten; [was] wern T. setten] þei setten T.]
Ne corses of poure comune · in here [kirke]-ȝerd moste ligge, [Ne] Ne no IT; No M. corses] corps IK; coors S; cors TG; bodies M. of] of þe M. [kirke IT] churche PES; chirche MK. moste] mai M.]
