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

                                
                                  And briȝtnes of body sal be clething gode.
                                  Line 1188 
                                
                                  Wark sal be thare, of god a mery louyng,
                                
                                  That neuer with-outen end sal haue irking.
                                
                                  If adam hade lyued to the warldes ende
                                
                                  And al the wittes of all men god had him send,
                                  Line 1192 
                                
                                  Ȝit myȝt he noȝt haue told fully
                                
                                  The lest poynt of that ioye, verraily.
                                
                                  Ther sal be nothing that may displese,
                                
                                  Bot al honeste & gode that may ese.
                                  Line 1196 
                                
                                  [Thre] [MS. ffour]  maner of men sal haue a ioye special,
                                
                                  That is callid in haly writ of ioye a coronale;
                                
                                  Thes thre maners are: verray martires,
                                
                                  Alle-clene uirgines, & haly techers.
                                  Line 1200 
                                
                                  Ilkon sal haue ther als [mekil] ioye of othir
                                
                                  Als he were a thousand sith his brothir;
                                
                                  Ilkon of other ioye sal haue a liking,
                                
                                  & that sal be [to] thaim of ioye a doubling;
                                  Line 1204 
                                
                                  This doubling sal be in noumbre a gretnes,
                                
                                  Noȝt to the ioye before euen mykilnes.
                                
                                  After degre of loue of god that man hade here
                                
                                  Sal his ioye be mesurd, with-outen any were.
                                  Line 1208 
                                
                                  Man sal haue souerayne ioye in siȝt of godhede,
                                
                                  And sithen a gret ioye of crist[es] manhede,
                                
                                  That he is both god & man that boȝt him with his blode
                                
                                  & deyned to shewe to man so hertly mekil gode;
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                                  That his brother sal euer be his lord & his god,
                                
                                  That sal be a confort to him with-outen make od.
                                
                                  In him-self he has his ioye of al the dowers
                                
                                  Both of body & of saul, as clerkes vs leres.
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                                  Of the qwene of heuen, our lady mary,
                                
                                  That is goddes moder & well of mercy,
                                
                                  fflour of all uirgines & avowe to mankynd,
                                
                                  May all that are in heuen gret confort fynd;
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                                  Amang all creatures sho has wele of all weles,
                                
                                  ffor sho is moder of the king that al ioye deles.
                                
                                  Sithen ix. ordres of aungeles comfortes man in blis,
                                
                                  With thair gret myrth & ioyfulnes that thai may neuer mys;
                                  Line 1224 
                                
                                  Sithen al maner of men that to blis wendis,
                                
                                  And specialy all gode men frendes

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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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