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.

                                
                                  And sythyn aftyr hys vp-rysynge,
                                
                                  He steyed to heuyn ther he ys kynge; [folio 10a] 
                                
                                  On hys faderes ryth hond he sette hym than,
                                
                                  And thus he cam stedfast god and man.
                                  Line 344 
                                
                                  That ylke god omnipotente
                                
                                  Schall cume at the day of jugement,
                                
                                  To deme vs all aftyr owre mysse-dede,
                                
                                  He ys not wys that hym nowte drede.
                                  Line 348 
                                
                                  The good with the joy, the wykyd with þe peyn,
                                
                                  The joy nor the peyn may no man dem
                                
                                  That he xall haue for hys servyce,
                                
                                  That serue god yn all wysse."
                                  Line 352 
                                
                                  The Emprore seyd, "be heuyne kynge,
                                
                                  Chyld, that ys a fayere doynge,
                                
                                  [And also þis I leue wel [Lines 355, 356 supplied from Vernon, omitted in Cotton.] 
                                
                                  þat þis is soþ, eueridel.]
                                
                                  But telle me, chyld, yf thow can,
                                  Line 357 
                                
                                  Wer-with the fynd be-gylle moste man?
                                
                                  How many synnys, thow me telle,
                                
                                  Bryngyn mannys sowll to helle?"
                                
                                  The chyld seyd, "synnys v,
                                  Line 361 
                                
                                  That a-monge men be full ryve.
                                
                                  Wykkyd thowth yn mannys harte,
                                
                                  Wyll that he ys heylle and swarte, [Quarte = able, hearty, was probably the original word, not swarte.] 
                                  Line 364 
                                
                                  To mannys-slawth and othere shame, [MS. has synye, Vernon shame. The lines 363—(362) differ from the corresponding lines in Vernon and Cotton, and give better sense than either of them.] 
                                
                                  That euery man ther-fore hau blame;
                                  Line 366 
                                
                                  But yf he schryve hym and make hym clere,
                                  Line (361) 
                                
                                  He goth ellys to helle fere. [Ll. (361) and (362) are not found in Vernon.] 
                                  Line (362) 
                                
                                  Pryde ys the tothere,
                                  Line 367 
                                
                                  Gloteny ys ye iijde brodere,

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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.
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Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
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