Die evangelien-geschichten der homiliensammlung desms. Vernon
b) Demanu sacerdotis per hos∣tiam penetrata.
BE fel sum tyme . In Engelonde
þer was a prest, . ich vndurstonde,
þat ladde not his lyf, . as was tolde,
Also clanliche . as he scholde.
God wolde he scholde . hymamende, [ 5]
And he hym . astrong vuel gon sende:
so he wende . almost . to dye.
And on a day . þis siht he seȝe:
A child . boþe he seih and herde
And asked hym . hou he ferde, [ 10]
In his hond . bret ful he beere
Of bernynge Obeleis . a paniere.
þe prest asked: . what is þat,
And þou þat askest . of my stat?
he seide: . Ich am Godes Messagere, [ 15]
And þeos Obeleis . þat ben here
þus monye . vnworþily þou fong,
whon þat þou . þi Masse song;
And ȝif þat þou nult . I. leue me,
scheuh forþ þyn hond, . and þou schalt se. [ 20]
þe prest heold forþ . his hond anon.
And þe child . tok vp on
Of þe obeleys . þat were so rede,
And pult hit . in þe prestes hond amidde.
hit fel þorwh þe prestes hond . on (!) [ 25]
And þe child . a wey gan gon.
þe prest let men . come hym to
And tolde hem . whi he ferde so:
Lo; quaþ he, . hou I. am diht!
who sauh euere . such a siht, [ 30]
þat þorw his hond . me mihte se *. [31 þat st. þar?]
As brod as was . þat obele?
And he not . I maymed nas,
And afturward . song mony a mas,
And (bar) an hole . þorwh his hond. [ 35] *. [35 fehlt das Verb.]
þus þat soþe . men hit fond.
After for a þousend pound . of golde
þe prest no more . synne wolde,
But serued god . wiþ gret drede,
And afturward . to heuene ȝede. [ 40]
Dann folgt, von welchen Päpsten die einzelnen Theile der Messe ge∣stiftet worden, die einzelnen Theile der Messe, der Inhalt des Canons der Messe, und die Ablässe, verbun∣den mit der Verehrung des Sacra∣ments. *). [Der letzte Theil (über den Ab∣lass) ist in gekreuzten Reimen; da∣rin begegnet die Angabe: þe laste pope þat was nou—of Jon . þat was hiht—Al þe pardoun . he graunteþ ow—And doublet hit wiþ his miht. Diese Verse fehlen in Harl. 4196.] Dann folgen:
