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“Bernard, þe wordes of þi Mouþ
To myn herte scheteþ a spere;
Þat speke of him bi norþ & souþ,
I-wis, þei don myn herte dere!
Wepynge is me now ful couþ,
Now þow wolt my peynes lere.
Mekeliche þow aske nouþe:
Bernard, I wol þe onswere!”
To myn herte scheteþ a spere;
Þat speke of him bi norþ & souþ,
I-wis, þei don myn herte dere!
Wepynge is me now ful couþ,
Now þow wolt my peynes lere.
Mekeliche þow aske nouþe:
Bernard, I wol þe onswere!”
Bernard seide and gon to speke:
“Mi rihte were to wepe sore:
Min herte [is hard &] nul not to-breke,
I seo not hit wole melte fore.
I wolde he were in serwe steke,
Wiþ me to wepe euer-more:
Hit nil not of myn eȝen reke
To wepe, as my wille wore.
“Mi rihte were to wepe sore:
Min herte [is hard &] nul not to-breke,
I seo not hit wole melte fore.
I wolde he were in serwe steke,
Wiþ me to wepe euer-more:
Hit nil not of myn eȝen reke
To wepe, as my wille wore.
“As þou art Qwene of heuene & helle
And baar him þat vs deore haþ bouȝt,
Hou hit is þou most me telle,
Þing þat is now in my þouȝt:
Weore þou þere as men [wold] him qwelle,
In Ierusalem, þer he was souȝt
And nomen wiþ þe Iewes felle
And siþen bi-fore Cayphas brouȝt?”
And baar him þat vs deore haþ bouȝt,
Hou hit is þou most me telle,
Þing þat is now in my þouȝt:
Weore þou þere as men [wold] him qwelle,
In Ierusalem, þer he was souȝt
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And siþen bi-fore Cayphas brouȝt?”
| [Poems from the Vernon MS] | |