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.
Ivdica domine nocentes me, expugna inpugnantes me.*. [Ps. 34 (35).]
Aue per quam dominus apprehendens scutum*. [cf. Ps. 34, v. 2.]
In extento brachio propulit astutum;
Qui de scuto*. [r. sputo] proprio comiscendo lutum
Ceco lumen homini reddidit acutum.
Heil beo [whom] þe lord of liht
265
A scheld tok priuely,
And in his hond I-streyht ariht
Put of his enemy;
268
Þat of his owne propre cheld (!),
Mengyng þerwiþ cley,
As moni men þo bi-heold,
Maad a blynt mon se*. [MS. so] al-wey.
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