A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

                                
                                  Summe [penaunce] to don they muste nede.
                                  Line 560 
                                
                                  [If þey woll nowȝth do here
                                
                                  They shall do hyt elleswhere,
                                
                                  Suche maner men, erly or late,
                                
                                  To purgatorye þey mote algate.
                                
                                  Ther mote þey dwelle stylle,
                                  Line 565 
                                
                                  And abyde goddes wylle,
                                
                                  But some frende for her mysdede
                                
                                  For hem do oþur synge or rede;
                                
                                  For þus may man þorow suche dyuyne
                                
                                  The soner come out of hys pyne.
                                  Line 570 
                                
                                  And þu art monn ȝet a-lyue,
                                
                                  And haste gon þorow swythe,
                                
                                  Thorow grace of god and good entent,
                                
                                  Thow art passed þat turnement.]
                                
                                  Thow þat arte cum to joy and blysse,
                                  Line 575 
                                
                                  We woll the tell wat yt ys,
                                
                                  Ertely paradyse thys ys,
                                
                                  Here yn dwellyd Adam and dede a-myse,
                                
                                  For on appyll that he ete
                                
                                  Alle hys joy he for-ȝete. [folio 37a] 
                                  Line 580 
                                
                                  ix hundgred ȝere and xv,
                                
                                  He levyd yn desert with sowrow and tene,
                                
                                  iiij thowsond vj hundred and iiij ȝere,
                                
                                  He lay [MS. has "layll."]  yn peynys with Lussyfere.
                                
                                  Aftyr-ward, th[r]owe goddys grace, [Cotton, ll. 585 and 586, "Tyll pat goddes wyll was To fecche hym out of pat place."] 
                                  Line 585 
                                
                                  He toke hym fro that fowlle place,
                                
                                  And all hys kymre [Kymre.] Cotton, kynde.]  was hym by
                                
                                  That wordy wos to haue mercy,
                                  Line 588 
                                
                                  [And ledde hem forthe wyt hem, y wysse,
                                
                                  Ryȝth ynto hys owene blysse.]

                                  Line 590

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Title: A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.
Canvas: Page 103
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

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