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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
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
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[Backe bent smocke rent]
Backe bent smocke rent
Slipperie yt was & in yt went
Thrust in stiffe standing
a test [?]
But comes out lither dropping
Stiff standing roughe handling
Between a womans legges in a morning
Cambridge Middle English Lyrics