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

                                
                                  To don his biddyng þou not asterte
                                
                                  In al þat þou may þenke wiþ herte,
                                
                                  And loke þou no þing þer-of breke
                                
                                  Wiþ al þat þou wiþ mouþ mai speke,
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                                  Or worche in dede wiþ-oute striue
                                
                                  Wiþ eny of þi wittes fyue,
                                
                                  Wiþ siȝt of Eȝe, wiþ Tonge tastyng,
                                
                                  Smellyng of Neose, of Ere heryng;
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                                  What þou dost bi wei or strete
                                
                                  Wiþ bodi worching, going wiþ feete,
                                
                                  Liggyng, stondyng, þenkyng [r. sittyng]  also,
                                
                                  Loke ȝif hit beo godus wille or no.
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                                  Ȝif hit beo his wille, do hit son;
                                
                                  Ȝif hit ne beo, hit not don,
                                
                                  Do hit not þenne for no maystrie,
                                
                                  Þouȝ þou scholdest þerfore dye.—
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                                  Þenne mony mon loud and stille
                                
                                  Wol aske, what is godus wille.
                                
                                  Hit is to vs boþe more and les
                                
                                  To haue vs euere in holynes.—
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                                  Þenne is to wite what, and whi,
                                
                                  Þat makeþ a mon þenne holi.
                                
                                  Two þinges þer ben In worchyng:
                                
                                  Þat on is loue, þat oþur knowyng;
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                                  Þat is knowyng of alle soþnes,
                                
                                  And loue of alle grete goodnes.
                                
                                  To knowyng of god þat is soþnes
                                
                                  Maist þou not come in blod and flesch,
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                                  Bote to knowe [r. þorw knowyng]  þin owne flesch, [r. self?] 
                                
                                  And also [r. to loue of]  godus grete goodnes,
                                
                                  Maistou not come, as I þe mene,
                                
                                  Wiþ-outen loue of þin Euencristene.
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                                  To knowyng of þi-sel[f] maistou
                                
                                  Come þorwh good þenkyng nou; [Sp. per frequentem meditacionem] 
                                
                                  Þou mayȝt come to godus knowynge
                                
                                  Þorwh þin owne feire plesynge. [per puram contemplacionem] 
                                
                                  To knowe þi-self old or ȝinge
                                
                                  Maistou come bi þis bithinkynge:
                                
                                  Þenk bisiliche, I preye þe,
                                
                                  What þou weore, art, and schalt be,

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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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