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

                                
                                  Grisogon, Iohn and paules,
                                
                                  Þei were on lyue knyhtis;
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                                  Cosmas and Damianus,
                                
                                  Þei were lechis, wretin it is þus.
                                
                                  Katerine, Mergrete, & agace
                                
                                  deyden for þis bred of grace.
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                                  Þer-for it is riht hire namys to be
                                
                                  nemenid in þe Canone:
                                
                                  for alle these deyde in good entent
                                
                                  for to mayntene þis sacrament.—
                                  Line 600 
                                
                                  Þe sacrament mote þi soule fede
                                
                                  þat is clepid aungelis brede.
                                
                                  if þat ȝe worþiliche it fonge,
                                
                                  it schal kepe ȝow þus longe,
                                  Line 604 
                                
                                  fro þat day þat ȝe ded ben
                                
                                  til ȝoure bodyes risen a-ȝen;
                                
                                  and þan þe bodi & soule in-fere
                                
                                  schul wende to þe gret mangere
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                                  where neuere-mor schal ben no nede
                                
                                  to no maner of ertheli brede,
                                
                                  But þe sihte of þe blisful trenyte

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

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