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

                                
                                  Sal in clere siȝht of god al that he trowed se,
                                
                                  & in that souerayn fair siȝt al ful of blis be.
                                
                                  All wysdam, al godenes, all fairnes, al myȝt
                                
                                  Sal rauysh man to the loue of god in that fair siȝt.
                                
                                  Man sal se in god as in a myrour
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                                  All that he wil or may be to his honour.
                                
                                  Ilk man as he deserued mor or lesse here,
                                
                                  Sal haue ther ay the siȝt of god more or lesse clere;
                                
                                  Bot al sal be so fully payd in that siȝt
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                                  That couayt clerer siȝt non sal haue no myȝt.
                                
                                  And thus in the saul the vnderstanding
                                
                                  Sal ay be fulfilled of ioye & likyng,
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                                  And this sal be in mannes saul the first dower,
                                
                                  After that he deserued when that he was here.
                                
                                  His will that here loued god ouer al thing
                                
                                  & his euen-cristen for goddes bidding,
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                                  In the loue of god ther sal be so parfit
                                
                                  That al his ȝernyng sal be ful of delit;
                                
                                  That loue sal be ay so gret, so gode, & so faire
                                
                                  That nothing that may befall sal hit oght empaire.
                                
                                  His mynd that hoped to haue ioye thurgh grace & mercy
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                                  & dyed stedfast in trouth with-outen synne dedly,
                                
                                  Sal haue mekil more ioye then he euer wend,
                                
                                  & sikirnes that hit last ay with-outen end.
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                                  So sal ilk blissed saul be fulfillid of blis
                                
                                  That hit may nothing ȝern thare that hit may mys.
                                
                                  He has parfit blis that has al his will,
                                
                                  & so be that he then [MS. tben]  nothing will ill.
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                                  Ther sal nothing be that may greue, bot al liking,
                                
                                  That sal ay last sikirly with-outen endyng.
                                
                                  Sothly, [thes] thre dowers of the saul are the gret blis,
                                
                                  And mannes ioye is mesurd after he has of this.
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                                  This gret ioye is of gode loue & likyng & siȝt.
                                
                                  Al other ioye toward this [is] of litil myȝt,
                                
                                  As he that has the sunne-liȝt vpon a fair day,
                                
                                  ffor many torches if he liȝt no better se he may;
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                                  Noȝt more liȝt, bot more maners of liȝt he has,
                                
                                  & that may be to him a maner of solace.
                                
                                  Clere siȝt of god sal ther be mannes fode

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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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