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 June 20, 2024.

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¶ Vtile consilium dominus ne despice serui; Nullius sensum, si prodest, tempseris vnquam.

117.

                    Ne seieȝ despisaunt
                  
                    Le counseil toun seruaunt,
                  
                    Si il est profitable;
                  
                    Ne lesseȝ le sen de nuly
                  
                    Quant tu veieȝ desi
                  
                    Ke il seit couenable.

                
                  ¶ Dispise no counseil of þi mon,
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                  Ȝif he beo profitable;
                
                  Ne þe wit of oþur men,
                
                  Ȝif hit beo resonable.
                  Line 448