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38. Over the Bier of the Worldling.
Nu þu vnseli bodi up-on bere listWere bet þine robin of fau & of gris?
Suic day hauit i-comin þu changedest hem þris,
Þad makiit þe Heuin herþe þad þu on list,
Þad rotihin sal so dot þe lef þad honkit on þe ris.
Þu ete þine mete y-makit in cousis,
Þu lettis þe pore stondin þrute in forist & in is,
Þu noldist not þe bi-þenchen forte ben wis,
For-þi hauistu for-lorin þe Ioye of parais.
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