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

                                
                                  for an enmy that hath the soght;
                                
                                  but yet shal y the lese noght,
                                
                                  for y wol dye for thy [MS. for thy for thi]  foly,
                                
                                  and bryng þe in to my company.
                                  Line 80 
                                
                                  I am a-lyue and thu art ded,
                                
                                  y wol yeue my lyf ayenst þe qued;
                                
                                  for to helpe the y am redy,
                                
                                  to saue the euer fro thyn enmy.
                                  Line 84 
                                
                                  for many a way, [man,] haue y go,
                                
                                  in hunger, thurste, colde & wo,
                                
                                  xxxti wynter and thre þerto,
                                
                                  or my disese were [MS. well]  al y-do.
                                  Line 88 
                                
                                  parchement to fynde wyst y none,
                                
                                  to make a charter ayenst þi fone
                                
                                  that wil leste with-oute ende:
                                
                                  .;. herken now to my word hende!
                                  Line 92 
                                
                                  But, as trewe loue bade me do, [folio 113] 
                                
                                  my owne skynne y toke þerto.
                                
                                  and when y had so y-do,
                                
                                  wel fewe frendis had y tho;
                                  Line 96 
                                
                                  to gete me frendis y yeaf gret mede,
                                
                                  as doth þe pore þat hath gret nede.
                                
                                  .;. but to yeue the y had no more,
                                
                                  for þi soule that was for-lore,
                                  Line 100 
                                
                                  then my soule to yeue for the,
                                
                                  that for the dyed apon a tre.

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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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