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.

                                
                                  The ix resun ys full good,
                                
                                  That goddes sun deyed on the rode.
                                  Line 548 
                                
                                  $x$ On a fryday, as I the telle, [The two lines replace two very different lines in Vernon.] 
                                  Line (545) 
                                
                                  $x$ He browte mannys sowle owte of helle.
                                  Line (546) 
                                
                                  Thys ys the x resun,
                                  Line 551 
                                
                                  Off owre ladys assumcyun,
                                
                                  On a fryday sche ȝylde þe goste
                                
                                  To god that sche lovyd all moste.
                                  Line 554 
                                
                                  In heuyn nowe that vyrgyn ys,
                                
                                  With body and sowle all holle, i-wys;
                                
                                  Ther he ys kyng and sche ys qwene,
                                
                                  Blyssyd motte that tyme byne.
                                  Line 558 
                                
                                  The xi resun ys full trew,
                                
                                  That the postyll seynt Andrew
                                
                                  On a Fryday wos don on cros,
                                
                                  To god he klepyd with myld voys,
                                  Line 562 
                                
                                  And seyd 'fadyr yn trynyte,
                                
                                  My sowle I be-qwethe to the.'
                                
                                  The xij resun ys myld of mode,
                                
                                  That seynt Ellynge fond þe rode
                                  Line 566 
                                
                                  Vpon a Fryday at Calvery,
                                
                                  The rode that cryst ded on dey;
                                
                                  Ther wos the holy cros fownd,
                                
                                  Dowyn depe vndyr grownd,
                                  Line 570 
                                
                                  $x$ And borne wos yn to the syty, [This couplet not in Vernon.] 
                                  Line (563) 
                                
                                  $x$ With merthys and with solemyty.
                                  Line (564) 
                                
                                  The xiij resun ys verament,
                                  Line 571 
                                
                                  That [Crist] schall cume at the day of jugement, [Six lines here in Vernon are omitted in Cotton and Brome.] 
                                
                                  On a Fryday with dolful mode, [folio 14a] 
                                  Line (567) 
                                
                                  With handes and syd all on bloode;—
                                  Line (568) 
                                
                                  Haue the Fryday euer yn mynd.
                                  Line 579 
                                
                                  The[se] xiij resun wrytyn I fynd.

                                  Line 580

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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 44
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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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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