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

Than sal clere conscience be mekil more of told Than any gret lordship with a world ful of gold: ffor al sal then perisch that we here now make, & synful man sal for drede sore tremble & qwak. 1004 All synne for whilk is noȝt worthily asseth made here, Bes shewed ther al openly, to shame & gret lere. Ilk a man then sal se his dome verraily & for gret drede of god thus sal thei all cry: 1008 "Montayns, falles doun on vs, for to hid vs, That we se noȝt the wrath of god that is so hedous! Allas that euer were we born any thing to craue, ffor with-outen ende we are lorn, for nothing may vs saue. 1012 Alas, alas, & wele-away, wher-of may we ȝelp? Whe are shent for euer & ay, for no thing may vs help." Haly writ sais that befor this dome Ouer al this wide warld a huge fire sal come; 1016 Seint Peter sais [2 Petr. 3, 10.] that then al sal brenne Erth & water & al the warld, & al that is ther-Inne. Heuens & ayr & all the elements ffire thurgh brennyng then sal clens. 1020 ffire sal noȝt touche heuen in the whilk is blis, Bot other heuens that vnder hit is. The fire sal purge venial synne, 1023 & ful hard pyne thaim that dedly [syn] is lnne; [1021-4 added.] Hit sal fordo thing that sal noȝt endure, And make al the remanant of fairer figure. [1027-42 added.] Then al the qwik bestes sal tak thair endyng, That were made bot for a tyme of mannes leuyng. The four elements sal be fairer seuen-fold 1029 Then euer thai were any tyme, other newe or old. Ther sal be no chaunging fro cold to the hete, Ne non other tempest of wynd & wedirs gret; 1032 Al cold & hete, foul venum, fylth & stynk, ffor to punish thaim in hell, sal doun then synk. [cf. v. 1095.] The heuens sal noȝt turne aboute, bot stand ay in rest, The sunne ay in the est, the mone in the west; 1036 Ilkon sal be more clere seuen-fold than he was, Bot[h] to goddes worschipe & to mannes solas.
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The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
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London,: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society,
1892-1901.
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