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

                                
                                  Heore Euencristen for to slo
                                
                                  Wiþ dede [F. deþ]  and wiþ word also. [or wyþ pyne do wo] 
                                
                                  Þo þat þow sauh wiþ Bollen visage,
                                
                                  Þo aren Envyous and [om. in F.]  ouer-outrage.
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                                  And þo þat nymped her fingres and hendes, [F. finger endes] 
                                
                                  Are Bacbyteres bi-twene frendes.
                                
                                  Þo þat þou sauh Meseles bi siht,
                                
                                  Þey loue more good þen god almiht.
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                                  Þo þat þou sauh lik Maumetrie,
                                
                                  On worldly þinges þei most affye,
                                
                                  More loue þei catel þat he haþ sent
                                
                                  Þen þei don hym þat al haþ lent.
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                                  Þeose-maner men are riht [F. ȝyt]  in wille
                                
                                  In heore synne to leue stille,
                                
                                  And þerfore schal þe sacrament
                                
                                  Of hem aske heor [F. harde]  Iugement,
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                                  Þat þei haue resceyued him vnworþily
                                
                                  And serued þe fend wiþ ful Envy." [F. hys enemy] 
                                
                                  Þis tale is told for loue of þo
                                
                                  Þat in synne to hosul go,
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                                  Or ben in wille to torne aȝeyn;
                                
                                  Al heore trauayle þei don in veyn.
                                
                                  Ȝif þou wole [F. whan]  þyn hosel saue [shalt]  take,
                                
                                  Beo in wille þi synne to forsake
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                                  Euermore in studefast herte;
                                
                                  And ȝif [F. þoghe; And om.]  þou synne in bodi [F. sone aftyr and]  smerte,
                                
                                  God takeþ hit nouȝt to so gret grim
                                
                                  As þou in tresun Receyuede hym.
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                                  In no þing wot I more tresun
                                
                                  Þen bringe þi lord on his felun,
                                
                                  And ȝit men seiþ þe synne is to greue [F. here s. ys grefe] 
                                
                                  Þat bringeþ a trewe mon on a þeue.
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                                  Ȝif þou do þus þi witande,
                                
                                  Þen chargen hit me [F. men hyt]  moste on hande.
                                
                                  Þerfore loke þou wite nouht
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                                  No synne I-hud In herte ne þouht! [F. has 2 vv. more.] 
                                
                                  ffor [F. Also]  no Clerk þat is in synne,
                                
                                  Til he leue and þer-of blynne
                                
                                  He schulde not serue atte Auteer
                                
                                  Ne hondle þing þat comeþ þer [F. Ne halewede þyng to come]  neer.

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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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