(_Bodl. Fragm._) 12th cent. Þe rof bið ibyld þire broste ful neh. (_MS. Auchinleck_) 13th cent. Wiþ wormes is now ytaken þin in, Þi bour is bilt wel cold in clay, Þe rof _shal take to_[16] þi chin. (_MS. Harl._ 2253) 14th cent. When þe flor is at þy rug, Þe rof ys at þy neose. Cf. _Death_ 152 (13th cent.) in Morris, _O. E. Misc._, p. 168 (_Jesus MS._). Þi bur is sone ibuld Þat þu schalt wunyen inne, Þe rof _& þe virste_[17] Schal ligge on þine chynne. Nu þe schulen wurmes Wunyen wiþinne. _MS. Harl._ 913, l. 66 (A). Erþ bilt castles, & erþe bilt toures; Whan erþ is on erþe, blak beþ þe boures. _MS. Harl._ 4486 (B); _so other_ B _texts_. Erthe apon erthe wynneth{e} castelles & towres. Then seythe erthe to erthe: ‘These byth{e} alle owres’. When erthe apon erthe hath byggede vp his bowres, Then schalle erthe for the erthe suffre scharpe schowres. _MS. Cambr._ 63 (C). Erthe bygyth hallys & erth bygith towres, When erþ is layd in erth, blayke is his bours; _ibid._ 5-8 Erthe vpon erthe has hallys & towris _&c._ Cf. _Soul & Body Dialogues_ (_MSS. Auchinleck, Digby, Vernon, Laud_). Whare be þine castels & þine tours, Þine chaumbres & þine heiȝe halle, . . . . . Wrecche, ful derk it is þi bour To morn þou schalt þerin falle. (_ibid._) Halles heiȝe & bours briȝt Y hadde y bilt & mirþes mo. (_MS. Harl._ 2253). thi castles & thy toures. Cf. _Death_ 29. Ah seoþþen mony mon By-yet bures & halle, Forþi þe wrecche soule Schal into pyne falle. _MS. Harl._ 913. 42 (A). Be þou þre niȝt in a þrouȝ, þi frendschip is ilor.[18] Cf. _Visio Philiberti_ (_MS. Porkington_). When þou art dede þi frenschype is aslepe. Cf. _Soul & Body_ (_MS. Auchinleck_). that alle þine frend beon fro þe fledde. Cf. _Death_ 97. Hwer beoð alle þine freond Þet fayre þe bi-hehte And fayre þe igretten Bi weyes and bi strete. Nu heo walleþ wrecche Alle þe forlete Nolde heo non herestonkes[19] Nu þe imete. _MS. Cambr._ l. 21 (C). When erth has gotyn erthe alle that he maye He schal haue but seven fote at his laste daye. Cf. _Soul & Body_ (_MSS. Auchinl._, _Digby_). Now schaltow haue at al þi siþe Bot seuen fet, vnneþe þat. The play upon the word _earth_ recurs in other English poems. Cf. _A Song on the Times_ (MS. Harl. 913), early fourteenth century-- [20]Whan erthe hath erthe i-gette And of erthe so hath i-nouȝ, When he is therin i-stekke, Wo is him that was in wouȝ. where the idea and the two rime-words are the same as in _MS. Harl._ 2253--