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

                                  
                                    Þerof comeþ treson, and Robberie,
                                  
                                    fforsweryng, Oker, and Symonye,
                                  
                                    Þefþe, Beryng of fals witnesse,
                                  
                                    Lyȝing, and of herte hardnesse,
                                    Line 364 
                                  
                                    Þat makeþ þe no reuþe to haue
                                  
                                    Of hem þat þe good craue.
                                  
                                    Glotonye is þe Sixte synne,
                                  
                                    Þat fouleþ mon wiþ-oute and wiþ-Inne.
                                    Line 368 
                                  
                                    Þe furste spice is of glotenye
                                  
                                    To ete more þen þou mayȝt defye,
                                  
                                    Whon þou art in hele nomeli;
                                  
                                    Anoþer is to ete to lustili.
                                    Line 372 
                                  
                                    Glotonye makeþ mon in hast
                                  
                                    To breke holychirche fast.
                                  
                                    Þe þridde makeþ bisili to þenche
                                  
                                    What maner of mete his lust may quenche.
                                    Line 376 
                                  
                                    Þe feorþe, þat makeþ mon as ded,
                                  
                                    Þat is foul drounkenhed—
                                  
                                    Þat is dedly, bi enchesoun
                                  
                                    Þat hit bi-reueþ mon his resoun;
                                    Line 380 
                                  
                                    But ȝif hit come wiþ-oute fayle
                                  
                                    Of feble brayn or gret trauayle,
                                  
                                    Or þe drinke be strengor þen men wenen,
                                  
                                    ffor venial synne we hit demen.
                                    Line 384 
                                  
                                    Lecherie is on of [MS. of of]  þe seuene,
                                  
                                    Þat greueþ muche vr lord of heuene.
                                  
                                    In to þis synne whon tweyne falle
                                  
                                    Þat ben sengle, is lest of alle;
                                    Line 388 
                                  
                                    But ȝif þe wommon a Mayde be,
                                  
                                    Worse is þat, þe secounde degre;
                                  
                                    Þe þridde is clept Holorie,
                                  
                                    Þat wedlak brekeþ, is synne ful hye;
                                    Line 392 
                                  
                                    Incest þe ferþe, whon þou lyst bi
                                  
                                    Þi gostly kyn or bodili;
                                  
                                    Þe worste of alle is Sodomye,
                                  
                                    Vn-kyndely synne, foul Ribaudye—
                                    Line 396 
                                  
                                    Þerfore haþ God taken gret wreche.
                                  
                                    Of dedly synne her endeþ my speche.

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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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