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

                                
                                  So muche may ȝit be monnes grace
                                
                                  Þat he mai passen an Angeles place.
                                  Line 204 
                                
                                  Seynt Austyn, þe grete clerk, seiþ riȝt so:
                                
                                  An Angeles place he wolde for-go
                                
                                  ffor to haue þe worþi stede
                                
                                  Þat God haþ ordeynd for Monhede.
                                  Line 208 
                                
                                  Herof I rede þou take good keepe!
                                
                                  Elles þou art worþi gret schendschip,
                                
                                  But þou lyue aftur þi degre,
                                
                                  Seþþe þou hast such a dignite
                                  Line 212 
                                
                                  Alle þing to beo þin vnderloute,
                                
                                  A-boue, bi-neþe, and al aboute.
                                
                                  ffor al þing in eorþe, mon, in sum wyse
                                
                                  Was maad of god for [MS. þor]  þi seruyse:
                                  Line 216 
                                
                                  Hors & Neet and eke Chamayle,
                                
                                  Þe to ese in þi trauayle;
                                
                                  Lyn, fforre, fflax, Selk and Wolle,
                                
                                  Þat diuersliche God ȝeueþ at folle,
                                  Line 220 
                                
                                  Þe to kepe from chele and hete;
                                
                                  Beest, fisch & foul, & fruit, to þi mete.
                                
                                  Þe þinkeþ par aunter hit is not so,
                                
                                  ffor venymous bestes þei don vs wo.
                                  Line 224 
                                
                                  Þe harmful creatures, verrement,
                                
                                  Weore maad til vre amendement,
                                
                                  Þei ben to vs a Chastisyng,
                                
                                  And eke a wel feir techyng.
                                  Line 228 
                                
                                   [vv. 229-234 wanting in the Spec.] Whil þou hast in þin hond a ȝerd, [exemplum] 
                                
                                  Þe Child þer-of is sore aferd,
                                
                                  Of his vntiȝt [= Germ. Unzucht]  ful sone slakes
                                
                                  And to his lore good keep he takes;
                                  Line 232 
                                
                                  Hit makeþ þe child boþe meke & lowe,
                                
                                  A-Mendeþ him wel him-self to knowe.
                                
                                  Þe venymous beestes wel muche we dreden:
                                
                                  Þe beter þerfore vre lyf we leden.
                                  Line 236 
                                
                                  ffor summe to vs þei beo nuyouse,
                                
                                  Godes werk we knowe ful meruilouse—
                                
                                  Of Godes wisdam a wonder cast!
                                
                                   [240 ff. wanting in the Spec.] But of his goodnes be-hold atte last,
                                  Line 240 
                                
                                  How Creatures þat ben Iure, [So V. and MS. Sim.] 
                                
                                  Þe Sky, Heuen, Sterres and heore nature

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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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