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

                                
                                  "Lo," quaþ he, "hou I am diht!
                                
                                  Who sauh euere such a siht?"
                                  Line 380 
                                
                                  Þat þorw his hond me mihte se
                                
                                  As brod as was þat obele.
                                
                                  And he not I-maymed nas,
                                
                                  And afturward song mony a Mas,
                                  Line 384 
                                
                                  And an hole þorwh his hond—
                                
                                  Þus þat soþe men hit fond.
                                
                                  After for a þousend pound of golde
                                
                                  Þe prest no more synne wolde,
                                  Line 388 
                                
                                  But serued god wiþ gret drede,
                                
                                  And afturward to heuene ȝede.—
                                
                                  I holde þe Mon more þen mad
                                
                                  Þat takeþ þis bred and nis not drad
                                  Line 392 
                                
                                  Of þe wreche þat mihte bi-falle.
                                
                                  So worþi bred hit is wiþ-alle
                                
                                  Þat for þe miht of þulke word
                                
                                  Þat god seide at his owne bord,
                                  Line 396 
                                
                                  Þe same miht þat word haþ here,
                                
                                  To torne þe bred in oþur manere,

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 192
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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