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

                                
                                  ffor þou art ded, and I am lyf,
                                
                                  And I moste dye to ȝiue þe lyf.
                                
                                  Mony a wei haue I go
                                
                                  In hongur and þurst, colde and wo,
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                                  þritti winter and more þen two,
                                
                                  Or my dede weore al I-do
                                
                                  Ne mihte I fynde no parchemyn
                                
                                  ffor to laste wiþ-outen fyn;
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                                  Bote, as good loue bad me do,
                                
                                  Min oune skin I tok þer-to.
                                
                                  To gete me frendes, I ȝaf good mede;
                                
                                  So doþ þe pore þat haþ gret nede:

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 648
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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