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

                                
                                  Þe Erl asked him what he was,
                                
                                  And wher he hedde ben in hard cas.
                                  Line 656 
                                
                                  ffor doute of deþ he was a-friht
                                
                                  And dorste not seye he was a kniht;
                                
                                  He seide: "sire, ȝif þi wille [MS. welle]  be,
                                
                                  I am an hosebonde-mon [F. om. mon]  of þe cuntre,
                                  Line 660 
                                
                                  I was wont to lede vitayle
                                
                                  To knihtes þat weoren in Batayle;
                                
                                  And nou I am a pore mon,
                                
                                  Þus fro þis Batayle I com, [F. wan] 
                                  Line 664 
                                
                                  And wolde fonde to haue [F. saue]  my lyf,
                                
                                  Til I may come to my wyf."
                                
                                  Þis Erl dude a leche bi stoundes
                                
                                  To tente [F. Tende]  to hym, to hele his woundes.
                                  Line 668 
                                
                                  Þat tyme was here mony þeodes,
                                
                                  Mony vsages, and [F. yn]  mony leodes,
                                
                                  ffor vche a kyng in þat dawes [F. dawe] 
                                
                                  Vsede his diuerse lawes:
                                  Line 672 
                                
                                  Summe were cristene in vre fay,
                                
                                  And summe leeuede in paynymes lay;
                                
                                  Þerfore þat tyme was muchel þro,
                                
                                  And ofte was boþe werre and wo.
                                  Line 676 
                                
                                  Ȝif a kniht [F. kyng]  miht oþer men take,
                                
                                  He scholde hem sulle or in seruage make.
                                
                                  Wherfore i telle so of þis kniht:
                                
                                  Þe Erl let him bynde eueriche niht,
                                  Line 680 
                                
                                  Þat he ne scholde from hym fle
                                
                                  Ne stele a-wey to his cuntre.
                                
                                  ffor al þat þei mihte him bynde,
                                
                                  Ofte loos þei dude hym fynde;
                                  Line 684 
                                
                                  Neuer so faste þeih heo him bounde,
                                
                                  Loos a-noþur tyme þei him founde.
                                
                                  Þis bounden kniht, Ruyna,
                                
                                  Hedde a Broþur, þat hihte Tymma; [F. Tumna] 
                                  Line 688 
                                
                                  Þis Tymma was prest Religious,
                                
                                  ffor he was Abbot of an hous,
                                
                                  So longe he liuede in þat estre
                                
                                  Þat his nome heet Tymmestre; [F. Tuncestre] 
                                  Line 692 
                                
                                  Þat tyme, [F. tounne]  as ich vndurstonde,
                                
                                  Hit was in Northhumberlonde.

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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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