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.

                                
                                  God mad the ffurmament;
                                
                                  Sunne and mone to schyne bryth,
                                
                                  And many sterrys ther be lyth.
                                  Line 122 
                                
                                  The Tvysday, I vndyr stond,
                                
                                  God made bothe see and lond,
                                
                                  Wellys full with watyr neysse, ["Fresche," Vern. and Cott.] 
                                
                                  To tempyr the erthe both hard and neysse;
                                  Line 126 
                                
                                  Erbys he mad, both tre and gresse,
                                
                                  And othyr thynges, as hys wyll wos.
                                
                                  The Wedenysday mad god all-myth
                                
                                  Fyssys yn flod and fowlys yn flyte,
                                  Line 130 
                                
                                  And bad them a-bowtyn wynd,
                                
                                  Fore to helpyn all man-kynd.
                                
                                  The Thursday god mad bestys fele,
                                
                                  Many dyuerse be down and be dale,
                                  Line 134 
                                
                                  And geffe them erthe to ther fode,
                                
                                  And had them turne to mannys good.
                                
                                  On the Fryday god mad Adam,
                                
                                  After hys chap [I.e. shape.]  he ȝaffe hym name;
                                  Line 138 
                                
                                  Sythyn Eve he bad hym take,
                                
                                  And make hyr on to hys make,
                                
                                  And mad hym man of mytys moste, [folio 7a] 
                                
                                  And gaffe hym lyffe of the holy goste.
                                  Line 142 
                                
                                  A grete lord he gan hym make,
                                
                                  All paradysse he bad hym take,
                                
                                  And mad hym lord that he had wrote.
                                
                                  The Satyrday for-ȝatte he nowte,
                                  Line 146 
                                
                                  That ylke day he blyssyd with good wyll,
                                
                                  All hys warkys lowd and styll,
                                
                                  Euery-chon yn ther perty,
                                
                                  And bad them wax and mvltyplye.
                                  Line 150 
                                
                                  The Sunneday god hys reste toke,
                                
                                  As we fyndyn yn holy boke,
                                
                                  He bad and cummawndyd all man-kynd

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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 29
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
Subject terms: Commonplace-books

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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.

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