FESTIVALS OF THE CHURCH. [Royal MS. 18 A x.]
¶ Deo nostro iocunda sit laudacio.
[folio 130b] ¶ Ioyeful preisyng to god oure lord
Þe sawter book bereþ record.
I.
The lord þat is a howsholder,
With faire festis folk he fat;
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Ȝiueþ hem wedys hym self doþe were,
On bolstre bed her balys bat;
Tonge gyueþ talke and stere
To preysen hym men taken gat;
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Oure lord to preise is no ler,
Þe same help man he byhat,
With hym on bedde, man, þou sat
¶ On þe bolstre of heuene blisse.
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With hys fleisshe he fediþ þe, þou wost wel þis,
Þi sowle schal be clad as hys
In lyfe þat neuermore lat.
II.
¶ Malachie witnesse haþ gunne
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In hys rewle, as it is rad;
He seiþ þat god is sooþfast sunne,
And in þat same þi sowle is clad;
¶ Þi lordes wede þan hast þou wonne
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And with hys fleisshe þi goost is fed;
He let atame hys pyement tunne
