Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...

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¶ I likne þe thies, flesch and bon, Þat beren þe body quantite, To marchaundes, in perile ride and gon, Bryngen wynnyng, gold, and fee, Line 52 Make hiȝe houses of lym and ston, Mayntene burgh, toun, and cyte, Welþe and worschip in here won, And good houshold of gret plente. Line 56
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¶ Mannys leggis, likne y may To all craftes þat worche wiþ handes, For al þe body beren þay, As a tre þat bereþ wandes. Line 60 Þe feet, to lykne, y wole assay, To alle trewe tylyers of landes, Þe plough, and all þat dygge in clay; Alle þe world on hem standes. Line 64
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¶ The toes of þe mennys feet, Þo y likne to trewe hyne Þat trauayle boþe in drye and weet, In þurst, in hungere, and in pyne, Line 68 In het, in cold, in snow and slet, Many hiȝe none, er þey dyne, And wiþ good mete selde met; But after howsel þey drynke no wyn. Line 72
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¶ Toes helpeþ man fro fal to ryse. He may not stonde, þat haþ no toon, Lepe ne renne, ne ryde in syse, Wrastle ne fyȝte, ne put þe ston. Line 76 Ȝif seruant þe maystere refuse, Þe seruant lyuyng sone were gon. And maystres, þouȝ þey ben wyse, Wiþ-out seruant lyue not alon. Line 80
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Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...
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Kail, J., ed.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., limited,
1904-
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