þare nis non of þulke þreo : þat hadde any wounde,
þat euereft miȝte I-held beo : to libbe anie stounde.
Aftur þe twelf formeste dawes : þat þet sed hath ȝwijȝt i-beo,
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hit bi-comez to a þicke blod : and chaungez al is bleo.
Hit þickez to [al. so] Nye dawes : for-to þe on and twentyþe day :
þanne it tornez formest to flesch : ase þe kuynde may.
Aftur eiȝte and twenti dawes : fourme it bi-gynnez to nyme,
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So þat In-with fourti dawes : it haueth euerech lime,
And in lasse ȝif it is a knaue : for he is of more hete.
Ȝwane þe limes beoth formest i-mad : huy ne beoz nouȝt ful grete.
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A smal weob it bi-cluppez al-a-boute : to holden it to-gadere faste,
Fram þat hit is formest i-kened : forto hit beo i-bore atþe laste.
¶ Al round it lith in þe wombe : and i-bouwed ase an hare
Ȝwane þat heo in fourme lith : for is .In. is sumdel nare.
Al I-buyd þe leggues beoz : it nolde nouȝt elles feiȝe, [al. veie]
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þe helene to þe bottokes : þe kneuwene in eiþur eiȝe;
þat heued is i-buid a-doneward : þe Armes al with-Inne,
þe elbouwes riȝt in þe schere : þe fustus to þe chinne;
Al i-buyd is þe rug : so þat neiȝ round it is.
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Man, ȝwar-of cometh þi pruyte? : for þare nis non, i-wis!
So heiȝ þov makest þe here : and to no man þou nelt a-buye :
Loke hov crekede [r. croked] þov were þare : and nouþe to no man þov nelt a-buye (!).
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þou ne miȝtest nouȝt þo holde up þin heued : ne enes on-do þin eiȝe;
Fra [orig. fram] ȝwam cam it sethþe þe : to beren þin heued so heiȝe?
Ȝif man him wolde bi-þenche : and riȝt him onder-stonde,
he scholde beo meoke, and milde of heorte : and to no man habben onde. [vv. 734-5 al. om.]
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IN eche manne þreo soulene beoth : ake nouȝt alle I-liche guode,
[Anime.] Ase ich seide eov er of þreo bollene : ȝif ȝe it onder-stode.
In þe Neþemeste bolle : þat þe liuere deoth of springue,
þare comez o-manere soule : at þe bi-guynningue
Ase it were a-manere lijf : þat sent norischingue
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To þe limes al-a-boute : and bi-ginnez [al. bringeth] in is wexingue;
So þat ane mannes norischingue : and is wexingue al-so
Of þulke furste soule comez : and of þe liuere þer-to.
