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

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Seint bernard seiþ in his bok, Þa[t] man is werm, and wermes hok, And wermes he shal feden; Line 15 Wen his lif him is bireued, In his rug and in his heued Shulen grisliche wermes breden. Line 18
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Þe fles sal melten from þe bon, Þe senewes sundren euerichon, Þe body hit sal defien. Line 21 Ȝe þat wilen þat soþe .I.-seen, Oundoþ þe graues þere þey been, And lokeþ wat þere lien. Line 24
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Mon, þou art a feble fom, Ne hauest þou here non siker hom; Ne seye ich þe bote skil; Line 27 Þi riȝte stude is helles wer; Ihesus lete ous comen þer, Þorou his swete wil! [folio 126] Line 30
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Þi fles stont aȝein þi gost: Wen þou shalt deyen, þou ne wost, Nouþer day ne niȝt. Line 33 Nedes costes þou most deyen, Ne may no rauncoun þe forbeyen; Greyþe þe wiles þou miȝt! Line 36
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A fikel wind, mon, is þi lif, And deþ draweþ his sarpe knif; Þou do þe sone sriue! Line 39 If þou counne loke riȝt, Ne hauest þou here bote fiȝt, Þe wiles þou art aliue. Line 42
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For nou þou art wrong, nou þou art riȝt, Nou þou art heui, nou þou art liȝt, Þou skippest alse a ro; Line 45
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The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
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