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 ...

Whan worldis loue doþ fayle and folde, Goddis loue fayleþ nouȝt. Trewe loue makeþ men be bolde; Wiþ loue, felawship to-gydre is brouȝt. Line 128
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¶ ffor loue, god com fro heuene toure, In mayden Mary tok mankynde. ffor oure swete, he drank ful soure. Where myȝt we trewere loue fynde? Line 132 His loue passeþ worldis tresoure, Ȝaf syȝt in helle to gostly blynde. And we wole knytte his loue to oure, ffor soþe, þat knot shal neuere vnbynde. Line 136
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¶ "Haue y þy loue, so may þou gete Þat loue wole þy soule saue, Among myn angels haue a sete, In ioye of heuene, as seyntes haue. Line 140 Ȝif þou nelt [folio 117b] y wol þe þrete, In helle pyne be fendis knaue. Wiþ þy conscience þou trete, Wheþer is þe leuere for to haue. Line 144
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¶ And þou madde in þy mood, To werne me þe loue þou has, I wole caste on þe myn herte blod, To bere witnesse þou forfetest gras, Line 148 And my vengeance, þat is so wood, Wiþ helle houndis in fyre þe chas. Þou hast fre wille, knowest euyll and good: Chese where wyltow take þy plas. Line 152
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¶ And þou of þy loue daungere make, What may thy loue profyte me? And þouȝ þou woldest me forsake, Out of my lordschipe þou myȝt not fle. Line 156
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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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