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.

                                    
                                      Abram's hart now wyll I asay,
                                    
                                      Wether that he be stedfast or noo.
                                      Line 36 
                                    
                                      Sey I commaw[n]dyd hym for to take
                                    
                                      Ysaac, hys ȝowng sonne, þat he love so wyll,
                                    
                                      And with hys blood sacryfyce he make,
                                    
                                      Yffe ony off my freynchepe yf he wyll ffell.
                                      Line 40 
                                    
                                      Schow hym the wey on to the hylle
                                    
                                      Wer that hys sacryffyce schall be,
                                    
                                      I schall a-say now hys good wyll,
                                    
                                      Whether he lovyd better hys chyld or me.
                                      Line 44 
                                    
                                      All men schall take exampyll be hym
                                    
                                      My commawmentes how they schall kepe.

Abraham.

                                    
                                      Now fader of heuyn þat formyd all thyng,
                                    
                                      My preyeres I make to the a-ȝeyn,
                                      Line 48 
                                    
                                      For thys day my tender offryng
                                    
                                      Here mvst I ȝeve to the certeyn.
                                    
                                      A! lord god, all myty kyng,
                                    
                                      Wat maner best woll make þe most fayn?
                                      Line 52 
                                    
                                      Yff I had ther-of very knoyng
                                    
                                      Yt schuld be don with all my mayne,
                                    
                                      Full sone a-none.
                                    
                                      To don thy plesyng on an hyll,
                                      Line 56 
                                    
                                      Verely yt ys my wyll,
                                    
                                      Dere fader god in trinyte.

[Enter Angel.

The Angell.

                                    
                                      Abraham, Abraham, wyll þou rest!
                                    
                                      Owre lord comandyth þe for to take
                                      Line 60 
                                    
                                      Ysaac, thy ȝowng sone that thow lovyst best, [folio 16a] 
                                    
                                      And with hys blod sacryfyce þat thow make.

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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 51
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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