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

                                
                                  This sais god bi ysaie, that his wil wele knewe:
                                
                                  "Lo, I make both heuens & erth all span-newe."
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                                  This fairnes of the warld sal dampned men noȝt se,
                                
                                  ffor thai sal be in helle-payne or that fairnes sal be.
                                
                                  ffirst, when god wil, sall aungeles a gret noyse make,
                                
                                  & crist thaim that are in blis sal with him take,
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                                  Then the remanant that sal be in that blis faire,
                                
                                  Sal be rauyst him agayn vp in to the aere.
                                
                                  All sall ryse fro ded to lyf of Adames lynage
                                
                                  Als in thair awen statur of thritty ȝer age;
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                                  All goddes chosen then sal ful parfit be,
                                
                                  With-outen any foulnes or superfluite.
                                
                                  Then sal crist say to thaim on his riȝt honde
                                
                                  A gode word, of all wordes comfortande:
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                                  "Come ȝe, my fader blissed, & haues the reume of heuen,
                                
                                  That, befor the warld was made, [was] ordaynd ȝow ful euen.
                                
                                  Ȝe gaf me mete whan I was hungry,
                                
                                  Ȝe gaf me drynk whan y was thristy;
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                                  When I hade nede ȝe harbard me;
                                
                                  When I was naked ȝe cleded me;
                                
                                  Ȝe visit me when I was seke,
                                
                                  And in prison ȝe wald me seke.
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                                  That ȝe did for my loue to the lest of myne,
                                
                                  That same ȝe did to myself, theron sal ȝe noȝt tyne."
                                
                                  Then wikked men for heuenes of synne
                                
                                  Sall noȝt agayn crist in to the aier wynne,
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                                  Bot thai on the erth [sal] cristes wordes here,
                                
                                  That sal be to thaim with-outen ende a lere,
                                
                                  When he sais: "go, waried, in to the fire of helle,
                                
                                  Thar ȝe in payne with-outen ende with the fend sal dwell.
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                                  Ȝe serued neuer ioye aylastandly,
                                
                                  ffor ȝe fulfilled noȝt the warkes of mercy."—
                                
                                   [1071-1090 added.] Take now gode kepe here, wardly cristen man, [MS. men] 
                                
                                  & do thi saule profit als wele as thou can!
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                                  Thurgh warkes of mercy may men heuen wynne,
                                
                                  & thai that dos thaim noȝt, sal noȝt come ther-Inne.—
                                
                                  Bot ther are seuen warkes of mercy bodely,

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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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