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 ys payed with that fore on of ye iij, [Fore—iij]: emprise, Vernon and Cotton.] 
                                
                                  He schall hau heuyn fore hys servyse.
                                  Line 492 
                                
                                  And a-nodyr thyng pay god yn herte,—
                                
                                  A man be grete yn poverte,
                                
                                  And take hys poverte meke and stylle,
                                
                                  And þe pore to helpyn be of good wylle,
                                  Line 496 
                                
                                  And gladly helpyn and socore,
                                
                                  Hys hevyn crysteyn þo þat be pore,
                                
                                  Yffe he may helpyn non more,
                                
                                  But yf hys poverte lessyt ["But here pouerte rewe," Cotton. Vernon has the same sense.]  sore,
                                  Line 500 
                                
                                  He schall haue for hys good wyll,
                                
                                  At his partyng that ys so schyll.
                                
                                  The iij thynge payed god mych,
                                
                                  Yffe a man be yn erthe rech,
                                  Line 504 
                                
                                  And be cume of grete kynne,
                                
                                  For-sake reches and werdly wynne,
                                
                                  And ȝeffe hym selfe to poverte,—
                                
                                  Ther-for yn heuyn schall he be."
                                  Line 508 
                                
                                  Than seyd the Emprore
                                
                                  "Telle me chyld, paramore,
                                
                                  Qwy faste men the Fryday
                                
                                  More þan þei don ony odyr day?"
                                  Line 512 
                                
                                  The chylde answerd and seyd aȝen,
                                
                                  "xiij skyllys ther-fore sothe byn;
                                
                                  The fyrste resun tellyn I can, [folio 13a] 
                                
                                  On a fryday god mad man,
                                  Line 516 
                                
                                  In the vale of Ebr[o]n after hys grace
                                
                                  He schap man after hys owe face.
                                
                                  The secun[d] [MS. has sceū.]  resun thow may leue, [MS. has here.] 
                                
                                  On a Fryday Adam & Eue
                                  Line 520 
                                
                                  They loste paradyce, as I the tell,
                                
                                  They wer damnyd yn to hell.
                                
                                  The iijde telle I schall,

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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 42
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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