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

VARIOUS READINGS TO THE VERNON MS.

XXXIV. ST. GREGORY'S TRENTAL, p. 260. From MS. Lamb. 306, fol. 110.

Title. Here folowth Sent Gregoris Trentalle.
1
I-writte men fynt . fayre
2
wrote
3
moder . hir lyffe
4
al. helden . howsewyffe
5
maneres . mode
6
þat om. gode
7
Bonowre
8
gesshed
9
Also . I-holden om. she
10
it felde . hire om. foule case
11
And tra|vailde . his om. trecherye
12
lad . in to synne of l.
13
luste of loue
14
So fer that she
15
So prevely ner-the-lees she her bare
16
was nomane ware
17
noman . witte . case
18
the childe borne
19
Be the necke the ch. she wriede
20
she beryede
21
she a-combred
22
She sh.
23
she . holdene (I- om.)
24
She . preeste
25
were fayne . name
26
as om. she . and of gode fame
27
Twyes efte-sones
28
R. as hite to-forne was
29
she
30
kyne and of
31
sonne . seynt om.
32
alle her
33
durste she no sh. showe
34
be shrefte . were
35
shame . to hide ther sh.
36
lese . of god alle-myghte
37
sethen . lyve . so om. synfully
38
And fallene to dethe sodeynly
39
womans dedis were . asspyede
40
sothely afterward she.
41
Whan she . seene.
42
she was . hie
43
so om.
44
had
45
al
46
she was . in hevene b.
47
litelle
48
after
49
Her sonne . at the mas stode
50
moder hee t. . gode
51
sodeynly in the myd mas
52
drewe to him a grete d.
53
blacked
54
alse derke as m.
55
in the
56
Al om. Stonyed he was of a stynche fulle stronge
57
gresely
58
in swonyng . alle-moste
59
Be-sides . vnder . lere
60
A|meddes . that þat drewe
61
greisely
62
Bute as a f. was hir
ragged . rente and also eville
62
Bute as a f. was hir
ragged . rente and also eville
64
dredfulle . be-hold . deville
65
nose . and om. Eyes
66
fflammynge fulle of brennynge lyes
67
hit om. fullyche . bi godis m.
68
deuelis shulde drade by righte
69
eke om. blode
70
mankynde diede . Rode
71
Sey thou me the s. wel s.
72
hate thou
73
the c. that þou weked wreche
74
do der
75
answerde . chere
76
modyr . bere
77
vnshrevyne dedis
78
bittyr . brene
79
Tho answ. . alas alas
81
Allas om. this is a w. c.
my om.
81
Allas om. this is a w. c.
my om.
82
I om. see
83
wendyne witterlyche I-wis
84
That thou . wel om. to haue hevene b.
85
þat om. that thou.
86
praye . levene . ȝit om.
87
moder . fyne
88
payne
89
She
91
was . such om.
92
wecked . me om. wenede
93
synned wickedly
94
the whiche . ne om. durste me neuer shryve
Yf o. the may save and socoure
95
She . her
96
ffrom one tille other . riht om.
97
moder
94
the whiche . ne om. durste me neuer shryve
Yf o. the may save and socoure
98
Wheþer fastynge or penaunce may þe a.
99
Bedis . to brygge
101
Withe coste and crafte and other thinge
102
To the be h. of any savynge
103
dere blessyd sonne . she
104
bee
105
savide . be wele
106
Who-so . trentelle
107
cheffe festis . yere
108
one
109
Thre
110
Epuphanie
111-12
one v.
113-14
one v.
115-16
one v. oþur om. trenite
117-18
one v.
118
of om. þe Assumpcione
119
ben tho ilke festis tenne
120
souerenly socourene
121
What preeste seith . with-oute f.
122
soulis . shuldene myche a.
123
In one yere with-oute trayne
124
Delyuer sowles . ful om. payne
125
But latte say this . heste
126
euery vtas of euery feste
127
this m.
128
Shalle sey . this orisons too
129
Trewly . ony were
130
thorowe-oute
131
Do hem it to saye
132
Or . thes m.
133
Who-so wille
134
in . this myche. Lat. Oracio: Deus qui es nostra Redempcio.
135
God that arte oure
136
To owre sowlis sothefast saluacione
137
chesest.
138
of hest . be
139
suffrest
140
the soules f. helle blame
141
Brynge hem . fendis bonde
142
oute of hethen mene honde
143
And that pepille . levith . on
144
Throwe . amendide may
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