Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.

                                
                                  Mony burþen ful bryȝt watz broȝt into halle,
                                
                                  And covered mony a cupborde with cloþes ful quite. [folio 81a] 
                                
                                  Þe jueles out of Jerusalem wyth gemmes ful bryȝt, [MS. jsrlem.] 
                                  Line 1441 
                                
                                  Bi þe syde of þe sale were semely arayed;
                                
                                  Þe aþel auter of brasse watz hade into place;
                                
                                  Þe gay coroun of golde gered on lofte,
                                  Line 1444 
                                
                                  Þat hade ben blessed bifore wyth bischopes hondes,
                                
                                  And wyth besten blod busily anoynted,
                                
                                  In þe solempne sacrefyce þat goud savor hade,
                                
                                  Bifore þe Lorde of þe lyfte in lovyng hymselven,
                                  Line 1448 
                                
                                  Now is sette for to serve Satanas þe blake,
                                
                                  Bifore þe bolde Baltazar wyth bost and wyth pryde.
                                
                                  Hoven upon þis auter watz aþel vessel,
                                
                                  Þat wyth so curious a crafte corven watz wyly. [MS. apparently fo.] 
                                  Line 1452 
                                
                                  Salamon sete him s[eve]n ȝere and a syþe more, [MS. s. . .n badly blurred, M. s[eue]n.] 
                                
                                  Wyth alle þe syence þat hym sende þe soverayn Lorde,
                                
                                  For to compas and kest to haf hem clene wroȝt.
                                
                                  For þer wer bassynes ful bryȝt of brende golde clere,
                                  Line 1456 
                                
                                  Enaumaylde wyth azer, and eweres of sute;
                                
                                  Covered cowpes foul clene, as casteles arayed, [MS., M. foul; M. note ful(?).] 
                                
                                  Enbaned under batelment wyth bantelles quoynt,
                                
                                  And fyled out of fygures of ferly[ch]e schappes. [MS., M. ferlyle; M. note ferlyke(?); Fi. ferlyche.] 
                                  Line 1460 
                                
                                  Þe coperounes of þe c[ov]acles þat on þe cuppe reres [MS., M. canacles.] 
                                
                                  Wer fetysely formed out in fylyoles longe,
                                
                                  Pinacles pyȝt þer apert þat profert bitwene,
                                
                                  And al bolled abof wyth braunches and leves,
                                  Line 1464 
                                
                                  Pyes and papejayes purtrayed withinne, [papejayes, second p ill-formed and per|haps not complete.] 
                                
                                  As þay prudly hade piked of pomgarnades;
                                
                                  For alle þe blomes of þe boȝes wer blyknande perles,
                                
                                  And alle þe fruyt in þo formes of flaumbeande gemmes,

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Title: Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.
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