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

                                
                                  and namely my moder swete,
                                
                                  that for me blody terys gan lete.
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                                  for, there she stode vnder the rode,
                                
                                  she sawe my body al on blode
                                
                                  that fro my fete vnto my hede
                                
                                  y was not els but al blode-rede;
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                                  No word to me þer myght she speke,
                                
                                   [folio 116] it semed ny here herte wold breke;
                                
                                  no wonder was thogh she were woo
                                
                                  when she sawe me on þe crosse y-do.
                                
                                  .;. ffor sorwe of here y made a cry
                                
                                  and seid ful lowde "heli lamaȝaba|thany."
                                
                                  anone she fell doune in sownyng,
                                
                                  right be-fore me at myn endyng.
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                                  the peynes that y suffred were ful sore,
                                
                                  but for my moder they were the more.
                                
                                  when y layd my hed here & there,
                                
                                  my moder chaunged al here chere;
                                
                                  ful fayn she wold haue holpe me,
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                                  but for the Iewys it myght not be.
                                
                                  my peynes were tho fulle smerte,
                                
                                  the swerd of sorwe perced here herte;

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 657
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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