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 28, 2025.

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Constans & lenis ut res expostulat esto: Temporibus mores sapiens sine crimine mutat.

35.

                    Red e suef seyez
                  
                    Solum ce ke tu veyez
                  
                    Cum les choses ount;
                  
                    Ly sages saunz blamer
                  
                    Ces mours fet atemprer
                  
                    Solum ke les choses sount.

                
                  Studefast & stille þou be,
                  Line 137 
                
                  As þi catel wol aske:
                
                  Þe wyse mon liueþ withouten blame,
                
                  ffor he con wel hym taske.
                  Line 140