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

                                
                                  Mony on for heore synne þonne
                                
                                  Weore I-pyned and honged þer-onne:
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                                  Summe bi hondes and bi feet þere,
                                
                                  Summe bi þe her, summe bi þe ere,
                                
                                  Summe bi þe Armes þat weore longe,
                                
                                  And summe þer hengen bi þe tonge.
                                  Line 20 
                                
                                  He sauȝ a caudren brennynge at enes
                                
                                  Of diuerse colours wiþ seue lemes,
                                
                                  And þer weore þei for heore synne
                                
                                  Diuersliche I-pynet þer-Inne;
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                                  And seuen peynes weoren þer also
                                
                                  Þat duden þe soules muche wo:
                                
                                  Þe furste of snouȝ, þe secunde of ys,
                                
                                  Þe þridde fuir in alle wys,
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                                  Þe ffeorþe blod, as I þe say,
                                
                                  Þe ffyfþe Eddres of foul aray,
                                
                                  Þe sixte leyt, as mon may þink,
                                
                                  Þe seueþe peyne hit was of stynk.
                                  Line 32 
                                
                                  At þat penaunces were þei in cast,
                                
                                  Synful soules, and al for-þrast,
                                
                                  Þe wȝuche þat nolden in no chaunce
                                
                                  ffor heore synnes do no penaunce;
                                  Line 36 
                                
                                  Þer weore þei turmented in þo ledes,
                                
                                  And vche reseyued aftur his deedes.
                                
                                  Summe wepten and ȝelled þenne,
                                
                                  Summe gouleden, and summe dude brenne;
                                  Line 40 
                                
                                  Þei disireden euere to dye—
                                
                                  Hit miht not beo, wiþ-outen lyȝe,
                                
                                  ffor þe soule, wher-so hit go,
                                
                                  Schal neuer dyen, for weole nor wo.
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                                  Þerfore sore hit is to drede
                                
                                  Þe places of helle for wikkedhede!
                                
                                  In þe wȝuche þer is a whel brennynge,
                                
                                  Wiþ muche serwe euer-lastynge;
                                  Line 48 
                                
                                  Vndur þat wheol is þer þore
                                
                                  A þousund grisly peynes sore,
                                
                                  ffyue tyme vche day, to telle,
                                
                                  Beo turmented wiþ þe Angel of helle,
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                                  In vche of þo fyue tymes
                                
                                  Ben a þousund soules turmented in pynes.

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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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