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 per quam reddita lux refulsit cecis,*. [Ps. 39.]
Quam per Euam abstulit gustus ille necis:
De lacu miserie & de luto fecis*. [cf. Ps. 39, v. 2.]
Nos educat meritum tue sancte precis.
Heil þorw whom to þe blynde
297
Liht schon ful feire,
Þat Eue, Modur of vre kynde,
Wiþ tast of deþ con peire:
300
Out of þe Slouh of wrecchednesse
And of þe dregge of cleye
To lede vs to þi worþinesse,
Þyn holi preyere seye.
304
