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

                                
                                  Heo Offred for him atte Auter
                                
                                  fful of wyn a picher,
                                
                                  And [a] feir lof wiþ-al,
                                
                                  Eueri day as [F. as for a]  principal,
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                                  And al þat twelf-moneþ stabely,
                                
                                  Bote o day þat passed forby.
                                
                                  ffewe suche wymmen [now] we fynde
                                
                                  Þat to heore hosebondes are so kynde!
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                                  Bote þis wyf wiþ al hire miht
                                
                                  Dude for him [boþe [F. boþe; MS. Vern. om.] ] day and niht.
                                
                                  Hit fel at þe twelfmoneþ ende,
                                
                                  His felawes to þe hul gon wende,
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                                  And come to þat same stude eft
                                
                                  Þer þei heore felawe in werk left.
                                
                                  Riht þere þei furst bi-gon
                                
                                  Þei percede þorwh in to þe Mon:
                                  Line 868 
                                
                                  Þe Mon In good stat þei founde,
                                
                                  Liuinge, wiþ-outen wem or wounde.
                                
                                  Euerichone þei hedde ferly,
                                
                                  And þat was gret Resun why!
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                                  Alle þo men weore in gret weer
                                
                                  How he hedde lyued al þat ȝer.
                                
                                  Bote þenne he tolde hem euerichon
                                
                                  How he hedde lyued þer al-on:
                                  Line 876 
                                
                                  "I haue I-liued gracious lyf
                                
                                  Þorwh cortesye of my wyf:
                                
                                  Eueri day heo haþ me sent
                                
                                  Bred and wyn to present;
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                                  But o day, þenne eet I nouht,
                                
                                  ffor my mete me nas not brouht."
                                
                                  Þei ladde þe mon in to þe toun,
                                
                                  And tolde þis Miracle vp and doun,
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                                  ffurst þorwh þe Citéé,
                                
                                  And seþþe þorwh al þe contre.
                                
                                  Hit com in spekyng [F. þey asked hym]  atte laste
                                
                                  Þat day þat he dude faste.
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                                  He tolde hem þe dayes name,
                                
                                  And his wyf seide þe same:
                                
                                  Þat day heo offrede neuer a del,
                                
                                  Þe goode ffriday hit mihte be wel.

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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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