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

                                
                                  Mercy sal y fast crie befor this louely tour,
                                
                                  Euer til I fynde sum of thi socour.
                                  Line 460 
                                
                                  Hope of help me made hider for to fle
                                
                                  When thre gret enemys fast pursued me:
                                
                                  On is the foule fende with al his companie,
                                
                                  That puttes forth pride & wrath & gret enuye;
                                  Line 464 
                                
                                  The secund is the fals warld with many schrewed gyse,
                                
                                  That shotes ay at me sharply with all couetise;
                                
                                  The third is myn awne flesch, to me a gret enemy,
                                
                                  That prickes me with lecherie, sleuth, & glotony.
                                  Line 468 
                                
                                  Welle of mercy, I be ded & sone al fordon
                                
                                  Bot a streme of thi grace come to me sone.
                                
                                  Lady, let me lye in thi castel dyke
                                
                                  And wasch me wele ther to thi seruant like:
                                  Line 472 
                                
                                  Then, if myn enemys wil me assaile,
                                
                                  In traist of thi gode help y tak that bataile.
                                
                                  In this castil ihesu crist tok of the mankynd:
                                  Line 475 
                                
                                  Ther-for hope y euer her [MS. hir]  socour for to fynde;
                                
                                  Here hid god his gret power in mannes liknes
                                
                                  & laide enbuschement for the fend & al his wikkednes. [MS. wilk|ednes] 
                                
                                  Thou art the ȝert of aaron that bar the faire flour,
                                
                                  When thou in clene maydenhede bar thi creatour;
                                  Line 480 
                                
                                  Thou art the stegh of iacob thurgh wham is gate to heuen—
                                
                                  He may hope wele of help that deuoutly wil the neuen.
                                
                                  The Kinges sone of al this world ligh the with-ynne
                                
                                  ffor to saue & socour wel al synful man of synne.—
                                  Line 484 
                                
                                  Now he has acorded alle his sisters foure,
                                
                                  And pece is cryed for man heghe vp in the toure.
                                
                                  Now god & man are to-geder both in O person;
                                
                                  Now has man ynogh wharwith to bye him fro prison;
                                
                                  Now on man more parfit & withouten lak
                                  Line 489 
                                
                                  Than euer was Adam ar he goddis biddyng brak,
                                
                                  He is fre to plede for vs & al oure riȝt dereigne,
                                
                                  And no creature may haue cause vp-on him to pleyn.
                                
                                  In token of the prince of pees, when he til vs come,
                                
                                  Pees was ouer-al in the world, & reuling was in rome;
                                
                                  Ioye is sungen now to god vpon hegh in heuen
                                  Line 495 
                                
                                  And pes in erthe til al man that are of gode wil euen.

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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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