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Cambridge Middle English Lyrics
RELIGIOUS POEMS
Prayers, Songs, and Orisons to or about God, Christ, and the Virgin
Precepts and Admonitory Pieces: Signs of Death
16-19.
16–19. Warnings of Death
16.
[Whan thy hed quakes memento]
17.
Memento Homo
18.
[Whan thyn heed shaketh . memento]
19.
[Wenne þin eyen beit ihut. & þin heren beoit idut]
Instructive Pieces: Religious, Moral, Ritual
Parts of the Mass in English Rime
Reflective (Exegetical) Poems
SECULAR POEMS
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Cambridge Middle English Lyrics
36. Mors tua, mors domini &c Vii cogitanda
Myn oȝen deþ and cristes : and mi wikedhede
Oute of þe dome : and purgatories drede
þe grislih pine of helle : and heueniche blisse
Ih oȝte to be þenche : ilome bote misse
Cambridge Middle English Lyrics