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

SAULUS.
Ad magna premia non poteris venire nisi per magnos labores.
Repos e los, cum il me semble, Line 401 Ne a-cordent pas bien en-semble; Ou yl vous couent perdre los Ou souent lesser vostre repos.
Gret los & reste, me þinkeþ wel, Line 401 A-corden to-gedere neuer a del; Oþur þou most þi loos lese Or ofte-tymen for-go þyn ese. Line 404
IOSEPH.
Cum dixit mulier: dormi mecum; qui non adquiescens relicto pallio fugit.
Ne entreȝ iammes sanȝ cumpaygnye Line 405 Ou femme est soule de male vye; Si vous ne a-cordeȝ a sa luxure, Ele vous mettra la rage sure.
Entre þou neuere wiþ-outen conpaygnie Line 405 Þer wommon al-one is of vilenye; ffor ȝif þow parfourne not lecherye, On þe heo wol þenne sette a crie. Line 408
SENECA.
Laus & lasciuia non habent concordiam.
Envye destruit bone vye, Line 409 E los est perdu par lecherie; Lecherie & bon los Ne serrount Iammes ensemble clos.
Envye good lyf wol distruye, Line 409 And loos is lost þorw lecherye; Lecherye and good loos Ne mowe not euere to-geder be clos. Line 412
SENECA.
Miserrima est fortuna que caret inimico.
Dure cheaunce vent a cely Line 413 Ky est de tut sanȝ enemy; Kar si eust grace de byen vyuere, De enemiste ne serroyt delyuere.
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The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
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London,: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society,
1892-1901.
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