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

                                
                                  Þis Mon onswerde þis prest a-ȝeyn:
                                
                                  "Þis bred ȝe bringeþ to me in veyn,
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                                  ffor neuer-more schal I ȝete
                                
                                  Bred ne non oþur mete:
                                
                                  I am a Mon þat is ded,
                                
                                  Þat neuer-more schal ete bred."
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                                  Þe prest asked: "on what manere
                                
                                  Is hit þat þou wonest here?"
                                
                                  Þis Mon onswerde in þat tyde: [F. a. & seyd] 
                                
                                  "I was lord here ar I dyede, [F. deyde] 
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                                  And þis seruise þat I am Inne
                                
                                  Is þe peyne for my synne.
                                
                                  Bote I þe preye par charite,
                                
                                  Offre on þe Auter þes loues for me;
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                                  And I beseche þe ouer alle þynge
                                
                                  Þat sixe Masses for me þou synge;
                                
                                  And heo weore songen, I hope to wende
                                
                                  In to þe Ioye wiþ-outen ende.
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                                  And whon þe sixte masse is left,
                                
                                  Ȝif þou ne fynde me her eft,
                                
                                  Trouwe [þou] þenne forsoþe i-wis
                                
                                  Þat for þi preyere I am in Blis."
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                                  Þis prest al þat wike longe
                                
                                  ffor þis [F. þys same]  mon preyede and songe.
                                
                                  And whon þe wike was al gon,
                                
                                  Þe prest com þidere, and fond non;
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                                  He hopede [F. beleuede þan]  wel þat he was brouht
                                
                                  To blisse, for he ne fond him nouht.—
                                
                                  Beo þis tale ȝe may se
                                
                                  Þat hit is gret Charite
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                                  Masses for þe dede to synge,
                                
                                  Þe soules [out] of pyne forte bringe.
                                
                                  Ouer [F. Passyng]  alle þing hit haþ pouwer,
                                
                                  Þe sacrament of þe Auter,
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                                  And nomeliche whon hit is don
                                
                                  Wiþ good monnes deuocion;
                                
                                  Him wol god sannore here
                                
                                  Þen on þat is him nouht so dere.
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                                  In þe seueþe Comaundement
                                
                                  Toucheþ to þis sacrament

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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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