A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

                                
                                  "He ys wyth owte be-gynnynge,
                                
                                  And xall lestyne with owtyne enddynge." [folio 5b] 
                                  Line 36 
                                
                                  The Emprore seyd, "tell me the soth,
                                
                                  Wat cume fyrste owte of hys mowth?"
                                
                                  The chyld answord sone a-non,
                                
                                  "Ther-of spake the postyll John,
                                  Line 40 
                                
                                  In hys gospell all on sowne, ["Al and sum," Vern. and Cott.] 
                                
                                  In principio erat verbum,
                                
                                  This wos the fyrste begynnyng
                                
                                  That ever spake owre heuyne kyng.
                                  Line 44 
                                
                                  At that worde wos the sunne,
                                
                                  [Fader] and the holy goste to-geder wornne; ["Come," Vern. and Cott.; wornne may be an error for wonne.] 
                                
                                  iij personys yn Trenyte,
                                
                                  Non of them may fro othyr be.
                                  Line 48 
                                
                                  Thys ys the myte full kyng,
                                  Line 48a 
                                
                                  With owtyne hym ys no thyng."
                                  Line 48b 
                                
                                  The Emprore seyd woll zevyne,
                                
                                  "Chyld, haste thow byn yn heuyne?
                                
                                  How many heuy[n]s hath god all-myth?"
                                
                                  "vij," seyd ye chyld, "I the plytte.
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  The heyest heuyne that euer may be,
                                
                                  Ys of the holy Trynyte,
                                
                                  Ther ys the fader and þe sunne,
                                
                                  And the holy goste to-geder arnne ["Wone," Vern.] 
                                  Line 56 
                                
                                  iij personys yn on god-hode,
                                
                                  As clarkys yn holy boke rede.
                                  Line 58 
                                
                                  The ioyys may no man dyscry[v]e, [Lines 61-64 resemble Cott. Calig. A ii., ll. 63-66. They form better sense of this passage on the second heaven than most other versions.] 
                                
                                  Lernd non on-lernd þat ys a-lyve.
                                
                                  A-nother heuyne ys gostly ther,
                                
                                  Off a lower de-gre, thow schall here,

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Title: A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.
Canvas: Page 26
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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