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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"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 May 18, 2025.

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Biforen vndurne: Of þe passion, and of Witsuntyd.

                  
                    ÞEnk how crist at vndurne-tyde
                  
                    Was dispoyled, boþe bak and syde,
                  
                    And to a piler þenne was he bounde
                  
                    And skourged so sore wiþ mony a wonde
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                    Þat from þe foot to þe heued
                  
                    Hol skin was on [him] luitel be-leued.
                  
                    Wiþ Mantel of Red þei him cladde,
                  
                    Bi-foren þe folk þei forþ him ladde,
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                    ffor Septre a reod token him in honde,
                  
                    Crouned him wiþ þorn, I vndurstonde,
                  
                     [In the MS. vv. 867-8 precede v. 863.] And þenne þei kneled him be-forn
                  
                    And called him kyng al in scorn.
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                    Vp-on Pilate þen gunne þei crye
                  
                    Ihesu on Rode to Crucifye.
                  
                    He bar his Cros wiþ gret anuye
                  
                    To þe place þer he schulde dye.
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