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.
¶ Quod vile est, carum; quod carum, vile putato: Sic tibi nec cupidus, nec auarus nosceris vlli.
57.
Dount autres vnt cherte
Ceo eyeȝ en vilte,
E le vil eyeȝ cher:
E ia nyers blame
Pur escharcete
Ne pur coueyter.
¶ Þat is good chep may beo dere,
225
And deore good chep also;
Loke þou beo not coueytous
Ne gredi ek þer-to.
228
