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.

                                
                                  Lechery ys on of the v, [of the v]. Þe feorpe, Vernon and Cotton.] 
                                
                                  On of the worste a-bothyn heven or all. [Heuen or all]. eorpe, Vernon and Cotton.] 
                                  Line 370 
                                
                                  Covetyse ys þe v. as I the telle;
                                
                                  Thyse synnys bryng man most to helle.
                                
                                  Seynth Powle wettenes yn hys story
                                
                                  The peyn for Covetyse in porcatory,
                                  Line 374 
                                
                                  [Bi hem-selven hit is diht,] [Supplied from Vernon.] 
                                
                                  A wylle [wylle, i.e. wheel.]  of bras bernyng bryth,
                                
                                  Full of hokys a-bothyn and vndyr, [folio 10b] 
                                
                                  And whan yt gotth yt rowttyth as tonder.
                                  Line 378 
                                
                                  As full of sowlys as yt may hangyn,
                                
                                  As eche may be other ryngyn.
                                  Line 380 
                                
                                  [A wylde fyr among hem þoth renne,
                                
                                  All þat hyt towchyt hyt doth brenne.] [These two lines in Cotton only. The next eight lines are not in Vernon.] 
                                
                                  Wy ys covetyse lekyd to a wylle,
                                  Line (377) 
                                
                                  I schall the tellyn fayer and wyll;
                                
                                  Men that may wynne þat prysse
                                
                                  ȝevyn hem all to covetyce,
                                  Line (380) 
                                
                                  ȝa, mekyll of hys lyffe he wyll yt not blynne,
                                
                                  At the laste he deyyd ther-ynne;
                                
                                  Sortynly, as I the telle,
                                
                                  With-owtyn end he goth to helle.
                                  Line (384) 
                                
                                  For covetyce hath end no dylle,
                                  Line 381 
                                
                                  It ys lekyd to a wylle.
                                
                                  Falsse Pryd that ys so bolde
                                
                                  Ys wors be an hundryd folde,
                                  Line 384 
                                
                                  For Angellys that wern yn heuyn bryth,
                                
                                  So clere schynnyng and full of lyth;
                                
                                  For pryde wrethe god can take,
                                
                                  That many arn fynndes now blake
                                  Line 388 
                                
                                  And fellyn owte of heuyne, as I þe telle,

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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 37
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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