The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...

Title:	The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
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Transcribed from:	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. London: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society, 1892-1901.
Subject terms:	English poetry
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I. La estorie del Euangelie. (A FRAGMENT.)

II. Verse Paraphrase of Psalm LI.

III. her biginneþ an orisun of þe trinite.

IV. A confessioun to Jhesu crist.

V. A prayer to þe fiue woundes.

VI. A preiere to vre ladi.

VII. A preyer at þe leuacioun.

VIII. A preyer at þe leuacioun.

IX. Þe fyue Joyes of vr ladi.

X. An orisoun to god.

XI. An orisoun to vr lord Jhesu.

[XII. An orison to vr lady.]

[XIII. A confessioun of wyrschip in orysoun.]

[XIV.] [Another Prayer to the Virgin Mary.]

[XV. Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost.]

[XVI. A Confessioun for necligence of þe dedes of mercy.]

[XVII. An orysoun for sauynge of þe fyue wyttes.]

[XVIII. An orisoun for negligens of þe X Comaundemens.]

[XIX. Patris Sapiencia sive Horae de Cruce.]

poem

canonical hour matins

canonical hour prime

canonical hour terce

canonical hour sexte

canonical hour nones

canonical hour vespers

liturgical hour compline

[Another poem on the same subject, in MS. Miscell. Lit. 104]

[XX. Veni Creator Spiritus, englisht.]

[XXI. The Sweetness of Jesus.]

[XXII. A Prayer to Jesus.]

[XXIII. Psalterium b. Mariae. BY ALBERTUS MAGNUS.] (With the first Verse of every Psalm and Canticle.)

psalm

canticle

[XXIV. Psalterium b. Mariae,ascribed to Thomas Aquinas, comprising the 50 first psalms.]

psalm

[XXV. A salutacioun to vre lady.]

[XXVI. An orisoun to þe fyue woundes of ihesus cristus.]

[XXVII. An orisoun to þe fyue ioyes of vre lady.]

[XXVIII. A salutacioun to vre lady.]

[XXIX. Miracles of oure lady.]

I. [hou þe cite off croteye was delyuered of þeir enemys by vre lady coote.]

II. [hou þe Fewes, in despit of vre lady, prewe a chyld in a gonge.]

III. [hou an holy hermyt prayde a synful womman pray god for hym.]

IV. [hou a Few putte his sone in a brennyngge ouene, for he was communed wit oþur cristene children on þe pask-day.]

V. [hou a man, for ache, cut of his foot, and was heled aȝeyn by vre lady.]

VI. [hou a iew lente a cristenemon moneye, and took vre lady to borow.]

VII. [Of a prest þat lay by a nonne.]

VIII. [hou vre lady ȝaf mylk off heore pappes to a man þat hadde þe squynacye.]

IX. [Of an incontinent monk, þat was drouned, and rered aȝeyn by vre lady to lyf.]

XXX. De festo corporis cristi. [Panem angelorum manducauit homo.]

MS. Vern., f. CXCV b.

MS. Dd. 1, 1 Cambr. Univ. Libr., fol. 32 b.

MS. Harl. 4196. Sermo in festo Corporis Cristi.

XXXI. Septem miracula de corpore cristi.

MS. Vern., fol. CXCVI b—CXCVIII, b.

XXXII. Hou a man schal lyue parfytly. (A translation of the first part of St. Edmund's Speculum).

poem

Off þe seuen dedly synnes.

Seuen blessynges of god.

Seuen medicines for þe seuen dedly synnes.

Þe ten comaundemens of god.

Þe seuen vertues of god.

Þe twolue articles of þe fey.

Þe Seuen sacromens of holy churche.

Þe seuen principal vertues.

Seuen werkes of mercy.

[XXXIII.] þe visions of seynt poul wan he was rapt in to paradys.

XXXIV. þe Pope trental.

poem

Trentale sancti gregorij.

[XXXV. þe Spore of Loue.] (A free translation of St. Edmund's Speculum.)

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Of Meditacion of þi-self knowyng.

Meditacion of þe Soule.

Of Contemplacion in creature.

Þe secunde contemplacion In holy writ.

Of þe Seuene blessynges of þe gospel, Seuene dedli Synnes remedie.

Of þe Seuen ȝiftes of þe holigost.

Of þe Seuene vertues.

Of þe ten Comaundemens.

Of twelue articles of vre be-leue.

Of þe seuene Sacramens.

Of þe seuene dedes of Merci.

Of þe seuene druweries of Monnus bodi.

Of þe doweres of þe soule.

Of þe peynes of helle, & amonesting.

Of þe þridde Manere of contemplacion in god him-self.

Contemplacion at Matines tyme.

Of contemplacion at prime: of þe passion, and of þe Resureccion.

Of þe Resurexion.

Biforen vndurne: Of þe passion, and of Witsuntyd.

Bifore vndurne of þe holigost.

At Midday: of þe anunciacion, And of þe passion.

Also of þe passion.

At Noon: of þe passion, and of þe Assencion.

At Non of þe Assencion.

At euensong-tyme: of þe passion, and of þe Maunde.

Now of þe Maunde of Ihesu crist.

At cumplin-tyme: of his passion, and of his buriinge.

Of þe buryinge of Ihesu crist.

Of Contemplacion of god in his owne kynde.

[XXXVI. Þe Lamentacioun þat was bytwene vre lady and seynt Bernard.]

XXXVII. A dispitison bitwene a god man and þe deuel.

XXXVIII. Castel of Loue.

poem

Various Readings to XXXVIII from Halliwell's MS.(Ed. 1849 for private circulation.)

APPENDIX TO No. XXXVIII.

The Myrour of lewed men. A free version of Robert Grosseteste's Chateau d'Amour, by a Monk of Sawley, in Yorkshire. MS. Egerton 927 (Yorkshire dialect).

[XXXIX. Of þre messagers of deeth.]

[XL. Two Songs of Love-longing.]

[I.]

[II.]

XLI. A luytel tretys of Love. Of godes passyon.

[XLII. Of Clene Maydenhod.] Of clene Maydenhod, To be weddet clanly to god.

XLIII. A Mournyng Song of the loue of God.

XLIV. Her is a luytel Sarmoun, þat is of good edificacioun.

XLV. Her is a disputison bi-twene chi[l]d Jhesu & Maistres of þ^e lawe of Jewus.

XLV. A disputison by=twene a cristenemon and a Jew.

[XLVII. How to hear Mass.]

[XLVIII. Savings of St. Bernard: Man's three foes.]

Her telleȝ seynt Bernard Mon haþ þreo enemys hard.

MS. Laud 108, fol. 198 a.

MS. Harl. 2253, fol. 106 a.

[XLIX. Prouerbes of diuerse profetes and of poetes and of oþur seyntes.]

[Cato]

[Parvus Cato]

[Magnus Cato]

part

LI. The Stacions of Rome. [The Prolog only.]

LII. Disputation between Mary and the Cross.

LIII. Susannah, or Seemly Susan.

LIV. Testamentum Christi.

MS. Vernon, Fol. 317 b.

MS. Harl. 2382 (leaf 111, back).

Reg. 17, C xvii (leaf 112, back).

LV. Thirty Poems, most with Refrains. MS. Vernon, fol. 407

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1. Mercy passes all Things.

2. Deo Gracias I.

3. Against my Will, I take my Leave.

4. God is Love.

5. Deo Gracias II.

6. Each Man ought himself to know.

7. Think on Yesterday.

8. Keep well Christ's Commandments.

9. Who says the Sooth, he shall be shent.

10. Fy on a faint Friend!

11. Thank God of all.

12. This World fares as a Fantasy.

13. Ay, Mercy, God!

14. Truth ever is best.

15. Charity is no longer dear.

16. Of Women cometh this Worldes Weal.

17. The Praise of Mary, Mother of Christ.

18. Maiden Mary and her Fleur de Lys.

19. Seldom seen is soon forgot. (On Edward III, his Sons, and Richard II.

20. A Warning to be ware. (On the Earthquake of 1382.)

21. Love Holy Church and its Priests.

22. Try to say the best. Control your Tongue.

23. Tarry not till to-morrow.

24. Make Amends for thy Sins.

25. Suffer in Time, and that is best.

26. Mane nobiscum, Domine!

27. A Prayer to the Virgin Mary.

28. A Prayer to the Trinity.

29. But thou say Sooth, thou shalt be shent.

30. A Morning Thanksgiving and Prayer to God.