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

                                
                                  when to seynt Iohn y here be-toke,
                                
                                  She cast on me a drewry loke,
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                                  as y had here all forsake
                                
                                  and to a-nother sone y had here take;
                                
                                  And or this charter writen was,
                                
                                  ful ofte she sayd alas alas.
                                
                                  .;. Apon my shulder y leyd my hed
                                
                                  when y drow fast to my ded;
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                                  for so bare was y of worly good,
                                
                                  when y shold [dye] apon the rood,
                                
                                  that y ne had where-of to take,
                                
                                  rest of my hed where-of to make.
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                                  pore & riche, haue euer in mynde,
                                
                                  when ye in this world no rest may fynde,
                                
                                  what rest y han only for the,
                                
                                  when y hong nayled apon a tre!
                                  Line 304 
                                
                                  wel may þu knowe þat y had non,
                                
                                   [folio 116b] for þer y stode amonge my foon.
                                
                                  when thu amonge thi foen art broght,
                                
                                  be redy to suffre with alle thi thoght.
                                
                                  to stande at barre it is wel harde,
                                
                                  as ye be worthy to haue rewarde:
                                
                                  thu [þat] for me suffrest wrong,
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                                  þu shal be sothely on my right hond;
                                
                                  thu þat vengest the apon thi brother,
                                
                                  thou standest not þer, but on þat other;
                                
                                  and yf thu wilt the sothe knowe:
                                
                                  right as þu sowest, so shalt þu mowe.
                                
                                  .;. I fele me now so ful of woo,
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                                  that out of this world y most go;
                                
                                  with peynes of deth, hard am y bounde;
                                
                                  my soule shal passe here in þis stounde.
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                                  be-hold now, man, with herte & eye,
                                
                                  for thi loue how y shal dye.

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 638
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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