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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¶ Wiþ hym doþ drynke and ete, To lerne of his discressioun; Wiþ hym sche is skourged and bete, And crucyfyed in his passioun; Line 156 She is wiþ hym in helle hete, Wiþ hym in his resurexioun, And stye in-to heuene in his fadres se[t]e; Þens nolde she neuere come doun." Line 160
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¶ Now þe playnt is at þe last. God answerd wiþ mylde soun: 'fflesch,' he sayde, 'þou iangelest fast Moche dene, and no resoun. Line 164 Alle þy wordes þou dost waste. Wille wiþoute discressioun, Þyn awen pleynt þe doþ caste; Þou turnest þy self vp so doun. Line 168
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¶ Thou makest maystershepe in al vys, [folio 121b] And here [turnest] fro my way, And makest here þral to fleschely delys, In vanyte to al worldly play. Line 172 She is ashamed, now she is wys; Sche lyued in vowtrye so many a day. She haþ chosen þe loue most o prys, And cast þe fals[e] loue away.' Line 176
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¶ God seiþ: 'man, y made þe of nouȝt, And kyd þat y loued þe dere, And soule of resoun in þe wrouȝt, ffayre and wys, angels pere. Line 180 Þou hast defouled þe ymage þat y wrouȝt, In seruage to fendis and fendis fere. She folwed þy wille in dede and þouȝt, In alle place, fer and nere. Line 184
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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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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., limited,
1904-
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