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i'm thinking about getting a tattoo of one of my favorite middle english poems, but i'd really like to have it reproduced from a manuscript. according to what i can find, it's in MS. Harley 2253, folio 75b - it doesn't seem to be available anywhere online and i know very little about accessing any kind of manuscript so i'm wondering if anyone has any tips... sorry this is a bit vague.
WYNTER wakeneth al my care,
Nou this leves waxeth bare;
Ofte I sike ant mourne sare
When hit cometh in my thoht
Of this worldes joie, hou hit goth al to noht.
Nou hit is, and nou hit nys,
Al so hit ner nere, ywys;
That moni mon seith, soth hit ys:
Al goth bote Godes wille:
Alle we shule deye, thah us like ylle.
Al that gren me graueth grene,
Nou hit faleweth albydene:
Jesu, help that hit be sene
Ant shild us from helle!
For y not whider y shal, ne hou longe her duelle.
i s'pose if worst comes to worst, i'll find some other appropriately rotting-death-vanitas lyric to permanently put on my temporary flesh...
WYNTER wakeneth al my care,
Nou this leves waxeth bare;
Ofte I sike ant mourne sare
When hit cometh in my thoht
Of this worldes joie, hou hit goth al to noht.
Nou hit is, and nou hit nys,
Al so hit ner nere, ywys;
That moni mon seith, soth hit ys:
Al goth bote Godes wille:
Alle we shule deye, thah us like ylle.
Al that gren me graueth grene,
Nou hit faleweth albydene:
Jesu, help that hit be sene
Ant shild us from helle!
For y not whider y shal, ne hou longe her duelle.
i s'pose if worst comes to worst, i'll find some other appropriately rotting-death-vanitas lyric to permanently put on my temporary flesh...