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

                                
                                  So holy as she was holde of name,
                                
                                  All men were gladde of her fame.
                                
                                  But as holy as she holden was,
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                                  Þe deuell browȝth her yn a foule cas,
                                
                                  He trifeled her so with his trecherye
                                
                                  And ledde her yn lust of lecherye,
                                
                                  ffor with lust of lecherye he her begylde
                                
                                  Tyll she hadde conceyued a chylde.
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                                  And also priuely she hit bare
                                
                                  That þer-of was no man ware.
                                
                                  And for no mon) shuld wyte of þat case,
                                
                                  Anone as þe chylde born was,
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                                  The chylde she slowȝ & wyryede
                                
                                  And pryuely she hit byryede.
                                
                                  Þer was she combred yn a carefull case,
                                
                                  And vnshryuen þer-of she was;
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                                  She ne tolde no preste her priuyte
                                
                                  ffor she wolde holy holden be.
                                
                                  Efte-sones she fell in þe same case
                                
                                  Ryȝth as beforn her be-tydde was.
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                                  ffor she was comen of hyȝ parage,
                                
                                  Of gentyll kynne & worþy lynage,
                                
                                  Þerfor she wolde not her synne shewe
                                
                                  Nor yn schryfte hit be-knowe,

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 268
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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