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

ffor nede. Line 295 Lat twinne hem in two, For now wakneþ heor wo; Þei schal graunte, ar þei go, Al heore falshede." Line 299
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¶ Þei diseuered hem sone, and sette hem sere; Line 300 And sodeynly askede, þei brouȝt in-to þe sale; Bi-fore þis ȝonge prophete þis preost gon apere, And he him apeched sone with chekes wel pale, Line 303 "Þou hast I-be presedent, þe peple to steere; Þou dotest nou on þin olde tos in þe dismale. Now schal þi conscience be knowen, þat euer was vnclere; Þou hast in babiloygne on benche brewed muche bale, Wel bolde. Line 308 Nou schal ȝor synnes be seene, Of ffals domes bi-deene, ffor þeose In Babiloyne han bene Iugget of Olde. Line 312
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¶ Þou seidest þou seȝe Susanne sinned in þi siht. Line 313 Tel nou me trewly, vnder what tre?" "Mon, bi þe muche god, þat most is of miht, Vndur a Cyne, soþli my-seluen I hir se." Line 316 "Nou þou lyest in þin hed, bi heuen vppon hiht! An Angel with a naked swerd þe neiȝes wel nere; He haþ brandist his brond brennynde so briȝt, To Marke þi middel at a Mase in more þen in þre, No lese. [folio 317b:2] Line 321 Þou Brak godes Comaundement, To sle such an Innocent Wiþ eny fals Iuggement Vn-duweliche on dese." Line 325
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¶ Nou is þis domus-mon with-drawen with-outen eni drede, And put in-to prison aȝeyn in-to place. Þei brouȝten þe toþur forþ, whom þe barn bede, To-fore þe folk and þe faunt freli of face: Line 329
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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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