The Emprore knelyd down on the grownd,
And thankyd god that stownd,
Line 610
And he be-cum a good man as we rede, [folio 14b]
Line (603)
In bedys bedynge and almesse dede;
And seruyd god yn eche wysse,
Line (605)
And leuyd and deyed yn hys servyce.
Line 612
Seynt John the evangelyste,
Line 613
That ȝyd yn erth with cryste,
Thys tale he tolde yn latyn,
In holy wryth yn parchemyne;
Line 616
He bad and commawndyd all man-kynd,
The payssoyn of cryste þei schuld haue yn mynd.
Thus ȝendyth the talkyng,
Line 619
God ȝyffe vs all hys blyssyng. [
Vernon ends thus:—
þus endeþ þis spellyngOf Jhesu, vre heuene kyngGod graunt vs alle his swete blessyngSchrift and hosel, and good endyng. Amen.
Cotton has but two lines after 1. (606) 612, viz.:—
God ȝeue grace yt so mote beSayth all amen for charyte.
The total of lines in this Brome version amounts to 660. The Vernon contains 622, the Cotton. Calig. A II. 608 lines.
] ffinis.PLAY OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC.
Five English plays on the subject of Abraham's sacrifice are known, the Brome MS. gives a sixth, and no two are alike. [Besides these, Arthur Golding translated one from the French of Theodore Beza, in 1575, (a copy is in the Bodleian Library). See Mistére du Viel Testament, pub. par Baron J. de Rothschild (Soc. des Anciens Textes Franc. 1879), vol. ii. p. xviii.] Each of the four great collections of plays, the Chester, York, Towneley, and Coventry, includes it; one is also found in a separate form at
