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

                                
                                  Lyk to þat loue he haþ vs done,
                                
                                  ffor hit is vre saluacioune.
                                  Line 32 
                                
                                  And of vs ȝit askeþ he nouht
                                
                                  But þat may wel I-nouh be wrouht:
                                
                                  Noþing bote loue wiþ good louyng, [F. but loue-longyng] 
                                
                                  To loue him ouer al oþur þing
                                  Line 36 
                                
                                  And for his loue to leue synne—
                                
                                  Wiþ [F. his]  loue his blisse þen may we wynne.
                                
                                  And [F. ffor]  þou may neuere haue hym to þe
                                
                                  But þou wolt furst synne fle:
                                  Line 40 
                                
                                  Alle þing he loueþ, but synne he hates;
                                
                                  Ȝif þou loue hym, wiþ synne þou bates. [F. wlates] 
                                
                                  Ȝif þou loue on, þou most nedes
                                
                                  fforsake þat þyng þat he forbedes,
                                  Line 44 
                                
                                  Elles hit is told for no loue,
                                
                                  And nomeliche to vr lord aboue.
                                
                                  Þou maiȝt not loue him, þe boc seiþ, [F. wyþ no greythe] 
                                
                                  But þou haue wiþ þe good feiþ,
                                  Line 48 
                                
                                  Þat is to sey, leeue þou [F. to beleue]  hit wel
                                
                                  Al þat is writen of hym vchedel.
                                
                                  Studefast treuþe of loue hit semes, [F. comes] 
                                
                                  And of trewþe loue men nemes: [F. nomes] 
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  So is þat on wiþ þat oþur,
                                
                                  Wiþ studefast treuþe loue, his [F. ys þe]  Broþur.
                                
                                  To whom ouȝte vr loue be went?
                                
                                  To trouþe [F. But to þe beleue]  of þis sacrament.
                                  Line 56 
                                
                                  Þis schulde leeue vche cristen mon
                                
                                  And lerne þe treuþe of on þat con:
                                
                                  Þat þe bred þat sacrefyed is
                                
                                  On þe Auter, is godus flesch,
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  fflesch and blod, þer hit is leid,
                                
                                  Þorwh þe wordus þe prest haþ seid;
                                
                                  Þat lihte wiþ-Inne þe virgine Marie
                                
                                  And on þe Rode for vs wolde dye
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  And from deþ to lyue a-Ros,
                                
                                  God and Mon, in Miht and loos.
                                
                                  ffor hose troweþ not þis cler
                                
                                  In þe sacrament of þe Auter,
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  He schal neuere þe blisse a-byde,
                                
                                  ffor no þing þat him may be-tyde.

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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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