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.

                                
                                  In to the netherest pytte of helle.
                                
                                  Summe arn yn erthe amo[n]ge man-kynd,
                                
                                  That bryng man-kynd yn de[d]ly synne.
                                  Line 392 
                                
                                  There-for schryve the of pryde
                                
                                  Or than wormys hau etyn þi syde,
                                
                                  And thy body to strenkyt þe grownd,
                                
                                  And thy sowll yn woo ys bownd.
                                  Line 396 
                                
                                  Sore schall þer-for thy sowlle smerte,
                                
                                  That euer thw wor prowd of herte.
                                  Line 398 
                                
                                   [These lines, a—j, are not in either Vernon or Cotton.] Pryde ys most synnyg, I the plyte,
                                  Line 398a 
                                
                                  That worth god most full of myth;
                                  Line 398b 
                                
                                  Lecheri thynkyth no lesse þat yt ys
                                  Line 398c 
                                
                                  So mercy nor so swytte, i-wys, [folio 11a] 
                                  Line 398d 
                                
                                  Woo yn man wykyd as I the telle,
                                  Line 398e 
                                
                                  Drawyt mannys sowle to helle.
                                  Line 398f 
                                
                                  In holy wrytte yt ys woste,
                                  Line 398g 
                                
                                  That lechery ys the develys neste;
                                  Line 398h 
                                
                                  Kepe ȝow all fro that synne,
                                  Line 398i 
                                
                                  That non of ȝow falle there ynne.
                                  Line 398j 
                                
                                  Gloteny I wyll dyscry[v]e,
                                  Line 399 
                                
                                  That a-mong mankynd ys full ryve,
                                
                                  The fynd take men with[in]
                                
                                  And make them drownke with alle and wyne. [In Vernon these two lines stand:—
"The fend takeþ of men wreches fale,Whon heo beþ dronken of wyn and ale."
] 
                                  Line 402 
                                
                                  He comyth and swere as he wer wode,
                                
                                  Be goddes herte and be hys blyssed blode,
                                
                                  And on byddyn hys payssoyne,
                                
                                  That many on hath of hys malyssyne.
                                  Line 406 
                                
                                  But yf he freyn hym of gloteny,
                                
                                  In helle xall byn hys sowle foly." [Six lines which follow here in Vernon, are omitted in both Cotton and Brome MSS. From this point, many of the lines follow the Cotton version more closely than the Vernon, some parts not being found in the latter at all. The numbers between () indicate correspondence with the Cotton lines.] 
                                  Line 408

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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 38
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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