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 14, 2024.

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¶ Sompnia ne cures; nam mens humana quod optat, Dum vigilat, sperat, per sompnum cernit id Ipsum.

105.

                        De songe ke vous songeȝ,
                      
                        Counte ne counteȝ;
                      
                        Kar quant homme est veilaunt,
                      
                        Ce ke il coueit e espeir,
                      
                        E puis le veut auer
                      
                        Cel meimes en dormaunt.

                    
                      ¶ Þing þat þe mette in sweuene,
                      Line 401 
                    
                      Telle hit not wakand;
                    
                      Hit is þing þat þou coueyted
                    
                      Er longe bi-fore-hand.
                      Line 404

Notes

[optans, V. R.]

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