The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...

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London,: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society,

1892-1901.

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English poetry

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"The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ..." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/APE7335.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.

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Deus in adiutorium meum intende, domine ad adiu|uandum me festina. [Ps. 69 (70).]

                  
                      Aue vallis humilis, in quam cum descendit
                    
                      Deus verus, Abrahe semen apprehendit,
                    
                      Et sic adiutorium miseris inpendit
                    
                      Conterendo laqueos hostis quos tetendit.

                  
                    Heil valeye of humilite,
                    Line 545 
                  
                    In whom whon þer doun cam
                  
                    Verrey God þat tok of þe
                  
                    Þe seed of Abraham,
                    Line 548 
                  
                    On such maner he ȝaf helpyn[g]
                  
                    To wrecches þat weoren in wer,
                  
                    Þe panters al to-brekyng
                  
                    Þat vre Enemy made heer.
                    Line 552