þat is for to do þe wo.
45 þare fore. let lust ouer go.
And eft hit þe likeþ. |
weylawey. sore he him bi swikeþ.
þat for one stunde oþer two.
wurcheþ him pyne. euer mo.
50 Mon. ne do þu nouht swo.
[ VIII. POEMA MORALE]
(Lambeth MS.)
“i. Lambeth 487 (L), a small quarto, 177 × 135 mm., of 67 leaves, written towards the end of the twelfth century... nos. x, xi. of this book are also taken from it. The words printed in clarendon in these three pieces are written in red, not inserted afterwards by a rubricator but done at the same time as the rest of the text. The PM ends with fordemet, l. 270, in the middle of a page; the final t has a flourish for its cross stroke; the copyist had apparently no knowledge of any more.
“ii. iii. Egerton 613, B. M.... has two copies of the PM: the second (e) furnishes here a complement to the Lambeth MS. as far as l. 370, with which it ends; the first (E) is used to complete the text. e was written in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, E is somewhat later; the former has accents, the latter none.