XX. Long Life. [Cotton MS. Caligula A ix, leaf 246.]
MON [MS. Non.] mai longe liues wene;
Ac ofte him lieð þe wrench.
Feir weder turneð ofte into reine;
An wunderliche hit makeð his blench.
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Þaruore mon þu þe bi-þench;
Al schal falewi þi grene;
Weilawei nis kin [So in MS.] ne quene;
Þat ne schal drinche of deaþes drench.
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Mon er þu falle of þi bench.
Þine sunne þu aquench.
Nis non so strong ne sterch ne kene.
Þat mai ago deaþes wiþer-blench.
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Ȝung and olde, brihet [So in MS.] and schene.
Alle he riueþ in one strench.
Fox and ferlich is his wren[c]h.
Ne mai no mon þar-to-ȝeines.
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Weilawei þreting ne bene.
Mede. liste; ne leches drench.
Mon let sunne and lustes þine.
Wel þu do and wel þu þench.
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Do bi salemones rede.
Mon and þenne þu schald wel do.
Do ase he þe tahte and seide.
Þat þin endinge þe bringeþ to.
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Þenne ne schal þu neuer mis-do.
Ac sore þu miȝt þe adrede.
Weilawei shuc [So in MS.] weneð to lede.
Long lif; and blisse under-fo.
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Ac deþ luteþ in his scho,
Him stilliche to for-do.
