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 ...

At þe last it goþ, y wot not whyder, As ende of web out of slay. And hem-self stoden so slydere, How it is wiþ hym, y kan not say. Line 8
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¶ Sum man dar not be þef for drede; His trouþe is vice, and no vertue. In heuene he nys not worþi mede, Þat cloþes trouþe in falsed hewe. Line 12 Maugre his teeþ he is trewe; Stoken in presoun as best fro stray, Here wikked wille groweþ newe; Þey thenke more þan þey say. Line 16
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¶ Men may not staunche a comoun noys, Noþer for loue ne for awe. After men lyue is comoun voys, In wrongwys dede, or ryȝt lawe. Line 20 Who doþ hem pyne, who doþ hem pawe, Eche on telle oþer, child and may. Tho that to vertues drawe, Hem thar not recche what [men] say. Line 24
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¶ Tak fro þi foo, and ȝeue þi frende; Tak not fro thy frend, to ȝeue þi foo: Þy frend wole holde þe vnhende; Þow haddest on enemy, þan hast þou [MS. þu. As the MS. has "thou," 4/116, 8/46, above, I print þu 'þou.' In my first-edited text of some Saints' Lives (Philolog. Soc. 1862) I printed ic as the Northern 'ic' instead of the Southern 'ich' as I ought to have done. Dr. R. Morris told me of the mistake.—F. J. F.] two. Line 28 Man, be war er þou do so; To greue the he wol assay; [folio 102a] When þyn enemys wexen mo, Litil worchipe of þe say. Line 32
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¶ Oo prouerbe loke ȝe preue, Ȝe þat wole to resoun bende: Look what neyȝebore most may greue; By al way make hym þi frende. Line 36
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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,
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