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

                                
                                  And ȝif þe riche wol heuene haue,
                                
                                  At þe pore he mot hit buye and craue.—
                                
                                  Nou is hit good for to sen
                                
                                  Wȝuche þat verreylich pore ben,
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                                  And also þulke oþere iliche
                                
                                  Wȝuche þei ben, þat ben cleped riche.
                                
                                  Summe ben þat han riches þikke
                                
                                  And hem louen wiþ al heor witte:
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                                  Þo ben þis riche gredi men,
                                
                                  And euer coueyten þe world þen.
                                
                                  Oþur þer ben in dede and þouȝt
                                
                                  Wolde be riche, but þei may nouȝt;
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                                  ffor and þei hadden worldus good,
                                
                                  Þei wolden hit loue as þei were wod:
                                
                                  Þulke ben þeose, soþ to telle,
                                
                                  Þe caytyf beggers þat nouȝwher wol dwelle,
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                                  But euer þei reyken aboute to craue,
                                
                                  Al þat þei seon þei wolde hit haue;
                                
                                  Also wiþ hem sette we moun
                                
                                  Þis fals folk of Religioun.
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                                  Þeos ben as riche in vnquerte
                                
                                  As þeos oþure and as proude of herte;
                                
                                  Crist spekeþ of hem in þe gospelle [Math. 19, 24.] 
                                
                                  And þus þe wordus doþ he telle:
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                                  "A Chamayle mihte beter pase
                                
                                  Þorwh anelde yȝe þenne in case,
                                
                                  Þen miht such a riche mon
                                
                                  In heuene come to þat kyndom."
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                                  Summen þat richesse is to brouht,
                                
                                  Han hit, but þei louen hit nouht,
                                
                                  But neuerþeles, þe soþ to saue,
                                
                                  ffayn þei ben riches to haue:
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                                  Þos ben þese, to seye ow here,
                                
                                  Þe goode men of þe world so dere,
                                
                                  Þat al heore richesse wol dispende
                                
                                  ffor loue of god þat hit sende.
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                                  Bote þe more harm is forþi,
                                
                                  Suche ben fewe, witerli!
                                
                                  Oþur þer ben, soþ hit is,
                                
                                  Þat haue not of þis worldus blis

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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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