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.

Disce aliquid; nam, cum subito fortuna recedit,*. [[recessit, V. R.]]Ars remanet uitamque hominis non deserit vnquam.

152.
Aperneȝ a-kun art,
Ke, si fortune senpart
de tei sodeynement,
le art od tei remeyndra,
Ke trop ne tei lerra
Esguare entre gent.
¶ Leorn sum good, whil þou miht;
     545
Auenture haþ no make;
Mester wol not fayle þi lyf,
Hit nul þe neuere forsake.
     548