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 ...

Suffre pyne for þe, me nedid nouȝt, In hed, in hand, in foot, ne ton. Ȝoure gyltis y bare in herte and þouȝt, I made my fadir and ȝow at on. Line 104
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¶ Sum of my kyndenes, ȝe myȝte me quyte. Do þre wordis of my comandement: My name, my pyle take not in despite; Rule wel þy selue in good atent. Line 108 Thow nost how sone be after sent, To ȝelde rekenyng of goddis lon. The rolles of rerage þe fendis han brent, ffor god and man is wel at on. Line 112
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¶ And þou me loued, þou wolde me leue, And do my lawe, and holde it trewe. How myȝtest þou me more repreue Þan leue my lawe, and tak[e] newe? Line 116 Þy vyces wole make þy soule to rewe: In derkenes neuere sonne shon; Vertues shyne bryȝt of hewe. Holde goddis lawe, ȝe ben at on. Line 120

XII. God saue the kyng, and kepe the croun.

[Easter, 1413.] [Digby 102, leaf 110, back.] [19 stanzas of 8, abab, bcbc.]

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Glade in god, call hom ȝoure herte, In ioye and blisse ȝoure merþe encres, And kepe goddis lawe in querte; Þes holy tyme, lete sorwe ases. Line 4 Among oure self, god sende vs pes! Þerto eche man be boun: To letten fooles of here res, Stonde wiþ þe kyng, mayntene þe croun. Line 8
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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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