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

                                
                                  In þe Olde lawe þus is writen—
                                
                                  Iewes and Cristene wel hit witen:
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                                  "God seide þat [F. and]  hit was wrouht,
                                
                                  He Comaundede alle þing of nouht"—
                                
                                  Þis wordus aren verrey and cler,
                                
                                  Dauid hem seide in þe psauter.
                                  Line 76 
                                
                                  Seþþhe he made al of nouȝt þat [F. alle þat noȝt er]  was,
                                
                                  Lasse Maystrie were in þis caas
                                
                                  fforte chaunge on liknes
                                
                                  In to a-noþur þyng þen hit is,
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                                  Þat ilke liknesse in [F. of]  Bred and Wyn
                                
                                  In fflesch and blod to torne hit in.
                                
                                  His fflesch and blood in Bred is wrouht; [F. Yn flesshe and blode þe brede be broȝt] 
                                
                                  Siþþe he made [al] be-fore of nouht,
                                
                                  Ȝif þou seo hit not bodiliche in siht,
                                
                                  Þi soule wiþ-Inne schal trouwe hit riht;
                                
                                  And þauȝ þow fele no sauour
                                
                                  But verrey wyn and bred of fflour,
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                                  Þis is wisdam of godus ordinaunce,
                                
                                  To saue vs alle from þis Chaunce:
                                
                                  ffor ȝif hit weore as flesch to take,
                                
                                  Wiþ-stonde [F. wlate]  we scholde and hit forsake;
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                                  And for he nolde we hit forsoke,
                                
                                  Bot alle men hit vndurtoke,
                                
                                  Þerfore his wisdam his owne rede
                                
                                  Sauereþ hit in wyn and Brede.
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                                  Hit semeþ bred as to þe siht
                                
                                  And as Bred hit sauereþ riht;
                                
                                  Nouþur in siht ne in felyng
                                
                                  Knowest þou of no certeyn þing.
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                                  What schal þenne þe most saue
                                
                                  But studefast þouht þat þou schalt haue,
                                
                                  Studefast trouþe of vch a del,
                                
                                  Þat wol vs saue wondur wel.
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                                  And summe han hit seyen Bodily,
                                
                                  To whom he schewed his Mercy.
                                
                                  Lo her a tale al and sum [F. for of ȝow sum] 
                                
                                  Þat is In Vitas Patrum:

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 207
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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