The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...

                                
                                  "lo," quod he, "how I am diht!
                                
                                  who saw euere swich a siht?"
                                
                                  Þorw his hond men myhte se
                                
                                  als brod as was þat vble.
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                                  and he not maymed was,
                                
                                  & afterward song many a mas,
                                
                                  And þe hole al-wey þorw his hond—
                                
                                  Þus þat soþe men it fond.
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                                  & after for a þousand pound of gold
                                
                                  Þe prest no mor synne wold,
                                
                                  But seruid god wiþ greet drede,
                                
                                  & afterward to heuene ȝede.—
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                                  I hold þat man mor þan mad
                                
                                  Þat takiþ þis bred & is not drad
                                
                                  of þe wreche þat myhte befalle.
                                
                                  so wurthi bred it is wiþ-alle
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                                  Þat for þe myht of þat word
                                
                                  Þat god seyde at his bord,
                                
                                  Þe same myht þat word haþ here,
                                
                                  to turne þe bred in to other manere,

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
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Publication: London,: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society,; 1892-1901.
Subject terms: English poetry

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