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 May 31, 2025.

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Plus uigila semper: ne sompno deditus esto: Nam diuturna quies uicijs alimenta ministrat.

30.

                    Tut tens gardez vous
                  
                    Ke tu veylez plus
                  
                    Ke ne prengez sompne;
                  
                    Kar par trop dormer
                  
                    Veum souent cheir
                  
                  En vices meynt homme.

                
                  Loke þou wake more þen sleple, [? slepe] 
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                  And god in alle þing drede;
                
                  Long rest and luitel swynk
                
                  To vices hit wol þe lede.

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