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Cambridge Middle English Lyrics
RELIGIOUS POEMS
SECULAR POEMS
Love Songs and Complaints
Satirical Pieces
Wise Sayings
55.
55. Exhortation to Study
56.
56. The Vanity of Worldly Lusts
57.
57. The Transitoriness of Worldly Prosperity
58.
58. Of the iiij Complexions
59.
59. Proverbs in Rimed Couplets
60.
60. Praise of Contentment with Little
Riddles / Aenigmata
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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