The Middle English Poem, Erthe Upon Erthe

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Thane schalle erthe of erthe hafe a foulle stynke.

Mors Soluit Omnia.

[1.] Cf. G. G. Perry, Religious Poems in Prose and Verse (E.E.T.S. No. xxvi. 1867, p. 95, 1889, p. 96); C. Horstmann, Yorkshire Writers, 1. 373.

[2.] repeated in MS. rentys.

[3.] Perry sall, MS., Horstmann schalle.

[4.] perh. sase, MS. indistinct, Perry thus sase.

[5.] perh. stourrys as in Perry, but all other texts have schowrys.

[6.] MS. more, Perry mare.

[3.]
MS. Selden Supra 53. c. 1450.

[fol. 159, v^o.]