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[Poems from the Vernon MS]
[section]
I.
PART I.
II.
PART II
[XXXIX. Of þre messagers of deeth.]
[XL. Two Songs of Love-longing.]
XLI. A luytel tretys of Loue. Of godes passyon.
XLIII. A Mournyng Song of the loue of God.
XLIV. Her is a luytel Sarmoun, þat is of good edificacioun.
[XLVII. How to hear Mass.]
[XLVIII. Sayings of St. Bernard: Man's three Foes.]
[XLIX. Prouerbes of diuerse profetes and of poetes and of oþur seyntes.]
[prologue]
Dauid.
Salomon.
Isayas.
Salamon.
Ieremias.
Iacob.
Salamon.
Tobias.
Raphael.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Serafyn.
Salomon.
Seneca.
Serafyn.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Salomon.
Seneca.
Samuel.
Serafyn.
Seneca.
Salomon.
Iob.
Augustinu[s].
Ieremias.
Seneca.
Ipocras.
Serafyn.
Seneca.
Salomon.
Seneca.
Serafyn.
Seneca.
Ecclesiastes.
Salomon.
Ecclesiastes.
Seneca.
Ruben.
Ecclesiastes.
Serafyn.
Seneca.
Sampson.
Salomon.
Syrac.
Syrak.
Salomon.
Seneca.
Syrac.
Syrac.
Seneca.
Salomo
Syrac.
Iacobus.
Seneca.
Azaryas.
Ieronimus.
Ihesus cristus.
Saulus.
Ihesus cristus.
Iudyth.
Nabugodonosor.
Laban.
Seneca.
Ihesus.
Olyua.
Ficus.
Amalek.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Ionas.
Syrak.
Salomon.
Ecclesiastes.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Salomon.
Gregorius.
Salomon.
Seneca.
Syrak.
Seneca.
Saulus.
Ioseph.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Seneca.
Salomon.
Constantinus.
Syrac.
Salomon.
Salomon.
Seneca.
Ecclesiastes.
Cato.
Augustinus.
22. Try to say the best. Control your Tongue.
27. A Prayer to the Virgin Mary.
28. A Prayer to the Trinity.
30. A Morning Thanksgiving and Prayer to God.
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[Poems from the Vernon MS]
Serafyn.
As longe as þou mayȝt holde in honde,
Dismette þe nouȝt of þi londe
To ben oþur mennes vnderlyng;
Hit is better hit be in þin owne kepyng
Þen to ben in his daunger
Whom þou were wont bidde go fer or ner.
[Poems from the Vernon MS]
