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.
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Virtutem primam esse puta compescere linguam: Proximus ille deo est qui scit racione tacere.
31.
La vertu premere
Ke a tey seit chere,
Est lange refreyner;
A deu est procheyn
Ke par reson certeyn
Sceet tere e parler.
Kep þi tonge skilfulliche:
121
Þe furste vertu forsoþe hit is;
He is next vnto god
Þat kepeþ hit wel i-wis.
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