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

                                
                                  "ffor thou has sene me," quad crist, "now thou trowes riȝt;
                                
                                  Blissed be thai [that] trowes wele with-outen any siȝt!"
                                
                                  When our faith was thus confermed as thou has wele hard,
                                  Line 825 
                                
                                  Then bad crist thei suld it preche thurgh-out al the warld,
                                
                                  And [baptize] all that wald be in trouth stedfast,
                                
                                  In the name of the fader & the son & the haligast;
                                  Line 828 
                                
                                  ffor ther [may] neuer non in heuen-blis wone
                                
                                  Bot he thurgh baptyme be made cristes awen sone.
                                
                                  In this fader was neuer no wemme of synne,
                                
                                  The-for be him may [we] blis clayme & wynne.
                                  Line 832 
                                
                                  Adam come of erth & band vs all to prison:
                                
                                  Crist then come fro heuen & payed for vs raunson.
                                
                                  When he stegh vp agayn to heuen-riche blis,
                                
                                  He tok al the ded with him that was his.
                                  Line 836 
                                
                                  Ther he haldes sesyn in his heritage
                                
                                  To al that wil folow him of his lynage.
                                
                                  Thar fader & sone & haligast
                                
                                  Are all on god of myȝtes mast.
                                  Line 840 
                                
                                  In siȝt of this thre persons in on godhede
                                
                                  Sal be in heuen our gret ioye & our mede;
                                
                                  Then sal we se in that ioyfulnes
                                
                                  How crist, our dere fader, is verray prince of pees.—
                                
                                   [vv. 845-954 added.] When ihesu crist of heuen had wonnen his gret riȝt,
                                
                                  Then was sent the haligast anon, as he hade hiȝt;
                                
                                  His disciples hertes anon he wald enspire
                                
                                  In the fader liknes with tunges of fire.
                                  Line 848 
                                
                                  So the haligast was send & sest thaim aboue,
                                
                                  That of the fader & the sone is the gode loue,
                                
                                  And is al on god with thaim in verray vnite,
                                
                                  Bot he is third person in the trinite.
                                  Line 852 
                                
                                  When thei were thus fulfilled of the haligast,
                                
                                  Thai couth wele al langage & speke hit sone in hast;
                                
                                  Thai were so confermed in trouth & al ful of grace
                                  Line 855 
                                
                                  That for to preche goddes lawe thai dred no kinges face.

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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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