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

Soþliche hy beþ bi-payȝtte, Swecche oþere hoe beþ bitaiȝtte, Lat him no þonk ne cunne. [folio 129:2] Line 216
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Ac wer beþ þenne his ringes, And his proude þinges, And his golt-peinte gloue? Line 219 Wor al his proude þinges, Ne vailleþ him no þinges Þenne to his bihoue. Line 222
(38)
Sothliche, naked and bare, Wiþ wop and wiþ kare, Þou come to þisse liue; Line 225 And so ȝe sulen eft-senes fare; .I. saye þe soth wiþ-oute sware; Greyþeþ ou biliue! Line 228
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Þe salt þe world forleten and lewe, [[? rvmes]] Þer-of ȝe shulden þenken ene, And oure sunne aquenche Line 231 Mid beden and mid almesse, Wiþ-outen idelnesse, If ȝe miȝtten at-blenche Line 234 From þe sori satanasse, And from his swikelnesse And from his heuele wrenche. Line 237
(40)
If þou fallest in sunne, Ne li þou nout þer-inne; Hieþe þe oup to arisen, Line 240 And shend þe wiþerwine Satanas mid his pine, And doþe also þe wise. Line 243
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For mon nohute nout to abbe soule, Wen his wrecche licome In sunnen be .I.-falle, Line 246
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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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London,: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society,
1892-1901.
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