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

                                
                                  Þe Sonenday [F. seuenþe]  to Churche þei come,
                                
                                  Þat oþur Mon wiþ hem þei nome.
                                
                                  A sege was ordeynt for hem þre,
                                
                                  To bi-holde al þat priuite
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                                  Of þat holy Sacrament
                                
                                  Þat scholde be schewed in here present.
                                
                                  Bi-twene hem sat þis ilke mon
                                
                                  Of whom þe Miracle furst bi-gon.
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                                  Whon þe oble was on þe Auter leid
                                
                                  And þe prest þe wordes hed seid,
                                
                                  Alle þre þouȝte hem [F. þan]  verreylike
                                
                                  By-fore þe prest a Child lay quik,
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                                  In feir forme, of fflesch and blod;
                                
                                  Þis say þei þre þer þey stod.
                                
                                  Whon þe prest scholde parte þe sacrament,
                                
                                  An Angel [doun] from heuene was sent
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                                  And sacrefyed þe child riht þore:
                                
                                  As þe prest hit brac, þe Angel hit schore,
                                
                                  Þe Blod in to þe Chalis Ron
                                
                                  Of þat child, boþe God and Mon.
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                                  Þe prest [F. þys man]  ȝede to þe hiȝeste degre,
                                
                                  To hosel him as hit fel to be;
                                
                                  Hem [F. Hym]  þhouȝte þe prest brouȝte on þe patin [F. pateyn] 
                                
                                  Mosseles of þat child newe slayn
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                                  And beed him a Mossel of þat fflesch,
                                
                                  Wiþ al þe blod þer-on al fresch.
                                
                                  Þen gan he crie wiþ loude steuene:
                                
                                  "Merci, Godus sone of heuene,
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                                  Þe Bred I sauh on þe Auter lyȝe
                                
                                  Hit is þi bodi, I seo wiþ eȝe;
                                
                                  Of þe Bred þorwh sacrament
                                
                                  To fflesch and Blod hit is went;
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                                  Þis I beo-leeue, and euere I schalle,
                                
                                  ffor verreyliche we seon hit alle."
                                
                                  Whon he and þei weore alle certeyne,
                                
                                  In forme of Bred hit tornde aȝeyne.
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                                  He dude him hosel as oþur wore,
                                
                                  And was a good mon for euer-more.
                                
                                  And al oþure beo [F. beþ]  þe bettre
                                
                                  Þat hereþ þis tale or redeþ þis lettre.—

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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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