Spende, and Gode schal Sende
Spende, and Gode schal Sende
Original Text
Caius College Cambridge MS 261, fol. 234r;
Rossell Hope Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics of the
XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1952): no. 60, p. 57. PR 1203 S4 1952 Trinity College
Library. Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins, eds.,
The Index of Middle English Verse
(New York, 1943): no. 3209.
Z 2012 B86 General Reference Robarts Library.
3Non peni, non ware.
4Non catel, non care.
5 Go, peni, go!
Notes
1] In one modern English translation,
Spend, and God will provide.Back to Line
Save, and forever fret.
No penny, no worrying.
No goods, no fretting.
Go, penny, go!
2] ermor: evermore. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1907
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2002
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