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 9, 2025.

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¶ Iratus de re incerta contendere noli: Impedit ira animum, ne possit cernere uerum.

78.

                    Quant tu es irreȝ,
                  
                    De chose ne estriueȝ
                  
                    Dount nestes certifie;
                  
                    Kar Ire le corage
                  
                    Desturbe, ke il ne seit sage
                  
                    De entendre verite.
                  
                  ¶ Striue no þing in þi wraþþe
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                  ffor þing vn-certeyne;
                
                  Wraþþe destruyeþ monnes wit,
                
                  Whon soþ may not beo seiȝene.
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