The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Horstmann, Carl, b. 1851., Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.
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[XXIV. Psalterium b. Mariae,ascribed to Thomas Aquinas, comprising the 50 first psalms.]*. [Title in the Index: ffyfty salutaciouns to vre lady by þis word: Aue, Heyl be þou, &c. The Latin poem is mentioned by Mone, l. c. II, p. 257; another MS. is MS. Reichen. 36. In the MS. the poem follows No. XXVIII, but I place it here, because of its affinity to the preceding poem.]
AVe cuius vterum cristus cum intrauit,*. [Ps. 16.]
Igne sancti spiritus cor examinauit*. [cf. Ps. 16, v. 3.]
Et vt mater fieres dignam approbauit:
Per te nos respiciat qui te visitauit.
Heil, wiþ-oute pomp or bost
121
Þi wombe whon crist com Inne,
Wiþ fuir of þe holigost
Assayet þin herte wiþ gynne,
124
And þat þou schuldest his Moder beo
fful worþi he þe fonde:
Þorw þe he mote vs al bi-seo
Þat visited vs so in londe.
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