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

                                
                                  Susceperuut [me] sicut leo paratus ad predam. [textus] 
                                
                                  .;. Anone they be-gunne to spoile me,
                                
                                  and seid y shuld dye on a tre;
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                                  my mantylle and other clothes mo,
                                
                                  alle y had them sone for-go;
                                
                                  they cast lot emonges them alle
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                                  wheþer one shuld haue them, or parte hem alle.
                                
                                  but [al. So or Sone]  alle my clothes fro me thei token;
                                
                                  and alle my frendis sone me for-soken;
                                
                                  naked y Stod emong my fone;
                                
                                  for other socoure had y none;
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                                  redy they were me to despise, [r. dysese] 
                                
                                  but none þer were me for to plese.
                                
                                  .;. They made scourges hard & grete,
                                
                                  ther-with my body shuld be bete;
                                
                                  and thogh y wold haue pleyned me,
                                
                                  ther shuld to me no socour haue be.
                                
                                  ful sore a-ferd, for-sothe y was,
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                                  when they led me so gret a pas!
                                
                                  To a piler y was bound al þe nyght,
                                
                                  togged & betyn til day-light,
                                
                                   [folio 114] and wasshen with myn owne blode,
                                
                                  that al the erthe aboute cold stode.
                                
                                  and so y stod bounden al the nyght,
                                
                                  til on the morwe þat it was bright
                                
                                  they Strayned me hard apon a tre,
                                
                                  as parchement auxhte to be.

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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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