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

                                
                                  Bot þat vaylede him no-þyng
                                
                                  Neuer a day, þat byndyng:
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                                  ffor in þat tyme þe masse was songen,
                                
                                  Þe bondes to-barst and al to-sprongen.
                                
                                  Þis ffrison þhouȝte: "hou may þis beo?
                                
                                  He may riht wel from me fleo;
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                                  Happyliche hit a-vayleþ [F. vayled]  nouht
                                
                                  Þe Catel þat I wiþ him bouht."
                                
                                  Þe ffrison seide: "wolt þou wel
                                
                                  Restore a-ȝeyn al my Catel,
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                                  And I schal ȝiue þe leue to go
                                
                                  To þi Cuntre þat þou com fro.
                                
                                  But furst þou schalt me trouþe pliht,
                                
                                  And trewely hold hit wiþ al þi miht,
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                                  To bringe þe Catel I ȝaf for þe,
                                
                                  And elles I graunte þe not fre."
                                
                                  He graunted him al þat he seide,
                                
                                  And trouþe in hond wiþ hym he leide.
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                                  Þis Ruyna wente to kyng loer,
                                
                                  Þat was kyng of Caunturber—
                                
                                  He was seint Andreas [F. Andre]  suster sone,
                                
                                  And Ruyna was wont wiþ hym [F. here]  to wone;
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                                  Of al his stat, boþe wo and wele,
                                
                                  Ruyna told him eueridele.
                                
                                  Þe kyng ȝaf him his Raunsun;
                                
                                  And [he] bar hit to londun to þat ffrisun.
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                                  Seþþe eode he hom, þis kniht Ruyna,
                                
                                  To his broþur, Abbot Timma,
                                
                                  And tolde him of al his wo-fare
                                
                                  And of his cumfort in al his care.
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                                  Þis Abbot wel vndurstood
                                
                                  Þat his Masse dude him gret good
                                
                                  And þe sacrament gon hym borwe
                                
                                  Out of seruage and out of sorwe.
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                                  Þis tale telleþ vs seynt Bede
                                
                                  In his gestes þat we Rede.—
                                
                                  Bi þis tale may men lere
                                
                                  Þat Masses helpeþ vs wel here:
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                                  ffor vs liuynge hit makeþ Memorie,
                                
                                  Also for þe soules in purgatorie.

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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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