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.

                                
                                  That the Fryday ys day of chans,
                                
                                  Fastys [Fastys]: Best, Vernon and Cotton.]  to fast and to don penans.
                                
                                  The satyrday aftyr sekyrly,
                                
                                  For the love of owre lady,
                                  Line 584 
                                
                                  Ther we wern yn balys bownd,
                                
                                  Sche browte vs owte of helle grownd.
                                
                                  Sche ys full of mercy
                                
                                  To all that to hyre klepyne or cry,
                                  Line 588 
                                
                                  [To wasche and to make clene
                                
                                  Alle þat euere in synne bene.] [Supplied from Vernon and Cotton.] 
                                  Line 590 
                                
                                  A good sterre klepyd sche ys,
                                
                                  The beste wey vs to wysse;
                                
                                  Off hyr spranke a fayre flowere,
                                  Line (583) 
                                
                                  Jesus cryste, owre savyore,
                                  Line (584) 
                                
                                  Blyssyd mot they all be
                                  Line 593 
                                
                                  That seruyn that mayd with hert fre."
                                  Line 594 
                                
                                  The Emprore with grete sterne,
                                
                                  To the chyld he sey full ȝayrne,
                                
                                  "Chyld," he seyd, "I cungere the,
                                
                                  In the vertu of the Trynyte,
                                  Line 598 
                                
                                  And yn the paysson of cryste,
                                
                                  And yn hys deth and yn hys vp-ryste,
                                
                                  T[h]at thow me the soth sey
                                
                                  Or than thow wynd a-wey.
                                  Line 602 
                                
                                  What thow arte and fro wentes þou cam?" [Vernon and Cotton have the question differently: "Wheþur art þou a wikked angel or a good?"] 
                                
                                  The chyld answerd sone a-non,
                                
                                  "I ame he that the wroth,
                                
                                  And on the rode the dere bowte,"
                                  Line 606 
                                
                                  [The childe wente to heuene þo
                                
                                  To the stude þat he com fro.] [Supplied from Vernon; also in Cotton.]

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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 45
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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