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

                                
                                  Contemplaciun is, siker ȝe beo,
                                
                                  Þe goodnesse of god for to seo.
                                  Line 400 
                                
                                  Bi his [MS. þis]  Creatures may þou seo þan
                                
                                  Þreo þinges ben In god and Man;
                                
                                  Þis þreo ben, vs to redresse:
                                
                                  Miht, wit, and gret goodnesse. [2 vv. wanting (Miht is ap|propred to god þe Fader).] . .
                                
                                  Wit to god þat is sone,
                                  Line 405 
                                
                                  Goodnes to god holigost in wone.
                                
                                  Þorwh his miht, þat wel was torned,
                                
                                  Alle þinges þei ben formed;
                                  Line 408 
                                
                                  Þorwh his wit, so wel demeyned,
                                
                                  Alle þinges wysliche he [r. be]  ordeyned;
                                
                                  Þorwh his goodnesse, not denyed,
                                
                                  Alle þeose þinges he [r. be]  multiplyed.
                                  Line 412 
                                
                                  His pouwer maistou seo þe laft
                                
                                  Þorwh her gretnesse and here schaft;
                                
                                  His wit also wiþ-outen distaunce
                                
                                  Þorwh heore bounte [r. beaute]  and ordynaunce;
                                  Line 416 
                                
                                  His godnesse may we seo ful newe
                                
                                  Bi heore Multiplicaciun and vertuwe.
                                
                                  Heore gretnesse may we seo
                                
                                  Wiþ foure propurtes [Lat. dimensiones]  þat þer beo,
                                  Line 420 
                                
                                  Þat is folliche for to say
                                
                                  Þorwh heore heiȝnesse and depnesse ay,
                                
                                  Þe oþur two ben of strengþe
                                
                                  Þat is [MS. was]  þorwh heore brede and lenge.
                                  Line 424 
                                
                                  His wit maistou seo ful breme,
                                
                                  Ȝif þou þerof take good ȝeme,
                                
                                  Þer as he haþ ȝiue sum creature þore
                                
                                  Beoyng wiþ-outen eny more,
                                  Line 428 
                                
                                  Þat is as muche forte say
                                
                                  As stones þat ben in world al day. [Some vv. wanting: (to sum being & liuing as to treon & grases).] . . . . .
                                
                                  He haþ ȝiue to oþur þynge
                                
                                  Lyf, beoynge, and fleoynge, [r. felynge] 
                                  Line 432 
                                
                                  And al þise ben bi his hestes
                                
                                  To þat þing þat men callen bestes.
                                
                                  To oþur haþ he ȝiuen also
                                
                                  Lyf, beoynge, and fleoinge [r. felynge]  bo,
                                  Line 436 
                                
                                  And also more þing of Renoun:
                                
                                  He haþ to hem [MS. him]  I-ȝiue resoun;

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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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