The Multitext Edition > Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS. 198
The Monk's Tale
Folio 236r
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¶ Here telleþ þe monk // De casibz virox illustriū
I Wol bewayle in maner of Tregedye
The harme of hem þat standeþ \stode/ in heih degre
And fellen so þat þer nas no remedye
To bringen hem out of here aduersite
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For certein when þat fortune lust to fle
Ther may no man of hire þe cours wiþholde /
Beþ war by þis ensamples ȝong and olde
At lucifer þough he an aungel were
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And nougħt a man at him I wol begynne
For þeigħ fortune may non aungel dere
From heih degre ȝet feƚƚ he for his synne
Doun in to helle wher as he ȝet is Inne
O lucifer brightest of aungeles aƚƚ