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.
¶ Hoc bibe quod possis, si tu uis viuere sanus: Morbi namque mali causa*. [[M. causa mali nimia, V. R.]]est quecumque voluptas.
157.
Si tu veus viuere seyn,
Beueȝ ke tu seyes pleyn
E ke bien puisaunt;
Kar chescun delyt est vein,Page 602
E encheson certeyn
De maladye graunt.
¶ Drink þat þou beo meþful,
557
And lyue in hele good;
ffoul delyt in drunkennesse
Makeþ men ofte ful wood.
560
