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

1. Aarracio cuiusdam religiosi. [MS. Simeon: Quod corpus cristi est veraciter in sacra|mento altaris, realiter, & non figuratiue.] 

                                    Hit was a Mon of Religioun,
                                  
                                    Of alle Men [F. almes]  he hedde gret renoun;
                                  
                                    And, [F. But]  for þe fend wolde him haue schent,
                                  
                                    IIe leeuede not in þe sacrament,
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                                    And seide, hit was not Ihesu
                                  
                                    Þat Conceyued was þorwh gret vertu,
                                  
                                    Ne Ihesu was not þat Oble
                                  
                                    Þat was reised atte sacre
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                                    And þat þe folk honourede to; [F. And þo þat wurschep dede þarto] 
                                  
                                    To leeue hit was not to do.
                                  
                                    Bi-fore two Abbotes þus he tolde—
                                  
                                    Þis Abbotes write þis tale to holde,
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                                    Hit scholde be told to eueriche mon [F. euery wham] 
                                  
                                    Þat is aȝeyn þe Cristendom
                                  
                                    Til hit beo preued bi Clergye
                                  
                                    Wher hit beo treuþe or heresye.
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                                    Þis Abbotes schewed him þe rihte wey,
                                  
                                    Wiþ alle þe ensaumples þat þei couþe sey;
                                  
                                    And al he seide hit was lye,
                                  
                                    But ȝif he seȝe hit wiþ his eȝe
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                                    "Don [F. Doþe]  þen so þat I hit seo,
                                  
                                    Þen wol I leue þat hit so be."
                                  
                                    Þis Abbotes preide a ful seue niht
                                  
                                    Þat he [F. god]  wolde schewe him, to trouwe [F. þurghe]  his miht,
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                                    In fflesch, in Blod on þe Auteer,
                                  
                                    To Conferme his trouþe cler.
                                  
                                    And him-self preide specialy
                                  
                                    Þat god wolde schewe hym in Body,
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                                    "Lord, [F. L. he seyde]  for no mis-bileeue,
                                  
                                    Þat þow scholdest wiþ me [F. me þe]  greue,
                                  
                                    But forte schewe þe riht soþnes
                                  
                                    Þat þow art sacrament of þe Mes,
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                                    Þat I may make oþer certeyne
                                  
                                    Whon I wiþ eȝen haue þe seyȝene." [F. seyne] 
                                  
                                    Þis Abbotes lyȝe in orisoun
                                  
                                    Til þat þe seueniht were don.

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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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