Die Kildare-gedichte; die ältesten mittelenglischen denkmäler in anglo-irischer überlieferung von Dr. W. Heuser ...

Cf. E. E. T. S. 54, p. 264.

Omnis sanctus in tempore oportuno. [folio 67a] Þan consciens comford vs: boþ clerge and scriptour And seide "Cor contritum et humiliatum: deus, non despicies". Paciens was wel apaide: of þis propir seruice, And mad myry wiþ þis mette: ac I mourned euer, For a doctour at þe hey dees: drank wyne faste — Ve vobis qui potentes estis: ad bibendum vinum — And ete many sondry mettes: morturus [Sk. mortrews] and podynges, Braune and blod of gees: bacoun and colopus. Þan said I to my silf: so paciens hit herde: "Hit is noȝth þre dayes don: þis doctour þat he preched At Poules byfor þe pepil: what penance þei suffered, [folio 67b] All þat couete to come: to any kyn Ioy, And how Poule þe appostil: what penance he þolled For our lordis loue, as holy letter telliþ: "In fame and frig[ore]" Ac me wondereþ in my witte: why þat þei ne precheþ, As Poul þe appostil: preched to þe pepill ofte "Periculum est in falsis fratribus!" Holy writte biddiþ men be war: and wysely hem kepe,

Þat no fals frere: þrogh flateryng hem begyle. Ac me þynkeþ loþe þoȝth: þoȝ I latyn knew, to lac any sect, For al be we bretheren: þoȝth we be diuerse cloþed. Ac I wist neuer freke, þat frere is Icalled: Of þe four mendinauntz [Sk. Of þe fyue mendynauns . and made eny sarmon] Þat tok hit for his teme: and told hit wiþ out glose. Þei precheþ þat penaunce: is profitable to þe soule, And what mychef and male ese: Crist for man þolled. Ac þis doctour and diuinour, quod I, and decretister of canoun [Sk. canon, Ms. canom] And also a gredy glotoun: wiþ two grete chekes, Haþ no pite of vs pore: he perfowromeþ euel. "Þat he precheþ, he proueþ noȝth:" paciens I tolde And wissed [Sk. wisshede] witterly: wiþ wil ful egre, Þat in þe maw of þat mayster: al þo mettes were, Boþ dissches and dublers: wiþ al þe dentees after.