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

                                
                                  Ȝif on weore specialy for me seid,
                                
                                  Of my peyne I were ful leyd, [al. F.] 
                                
                                  Ȝif þe prest were of lyf so good
                                
                                  Þat God his preyere vndurstood;
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                                  I hope þenne grace to haue
                                
                                  Þat his Masse mihte me saue;"
                                
                                  Ofte he seide to his wyf:
                                
                                  "A prest, A prest of clene lyf!"
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                                  On þe Morwen forþ heo eode
                                
                                  To þe ffreres eft to [F. et god]  spede,
                                
                                  And schewed hit to þe priour,
                                
                                  And preyed him of socour;
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                                  Ȝif he hedde eny broþur
                                
                                  Þat he kneuh [F. hopede were]  beter þen oþur,
                                
                                  "Þat wol synge me a Mes
                                
                                  ffor a Mon þat ded is,
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                                  At [F. And at]  myn ese he schal haue
                                
                                  To a pitaunce what he wol craue."
                                
                                  Þe prior spac to [F. vn-to]  a ffrere
                                
                                  And preyed him on alle manere
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                                  Þat he wolde a Masse synge
                                
                                  ffor þat soule heo made preyinge.
                                
                                  Þe ffrere was an holy mon;
                                
                                  And ar [þat] he his Masse bi-gon,
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                                  He preyed to god his orison,
                                
                                  Wiþ [F. Yn]  a gret deuocion, [afflyceyoun] 
                                
                                  Þat hit mihte ben him to pay,
                                
                                  Þe Masse þat he scholde synge to-day.
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                                  Whon þe Masse was don to þe ende,
                                
                                  He bad þe wommon hom [to] wende,
                                
                                  "And whon þou more eft heres,
                                
                                  Cum and sey to vre ffreres!"
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                                  Þe niht aftur—lustneþ now!—
                                
                                  He com and seide: "slepestou?"
                                
                                  "Nay," heo sayde, "hou fare ȝe?"
                                
                                  "Wel," he seide, "and so worþ þe!"
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                                  "Sire, weore ȝe a-payed of þat Mas
                                
                                  Þat for ow to-day songen was?"
                                
                                  "Ȝe," he seide, "graunt Merci!
                                
                                  Þat Masse to me is more worþi

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 219
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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