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.

To morow comyth the day of dome.
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The fyftene day comyth ful swyþe; Ther wos neuer no man a-lyve, Line 208 Fro Adamys day, formeste man, But to the dome xall cume than; And fro deth he schall ryse, And of the dome woll sore a-grise. [Agrise (verb), fear, be afraid.] Line 212 Euery man as of xxxte ȝere olde Schall cume to the dome to be-holde. Euery man schall other mete. [folio 26a] At the mownth of Olyuete; Line 216 The Angelys xall blowyn with þer hornys, And pepyll schall [come] all at onys, Full sorely they mown a-gryse Fro the deth that they schall ryse. Line 220 The Angell xall cume Jesus be-forn, With schurgys and a crown of thron, With dred-full chyr and with grete mode, All-so to hys harte yt stode,— Line 224 The spere so bryth and so scharpe, And yt stonge hym to the herte. For no ylle no for no spyth Longes stonge ȝow to the harth, Line 228 Owte sprange the blod all so rede, As prophycye a-fore vs seyd; He strake ther with hys eye syth, Yt cum as bryth as candyll lyth: Line 232 "Kynge and lord of grete pete, Thys [mysdede] thow for-ȝyffe me. Longes ded ȝow [non] [The Brome has a instead of non; but it is not good sense. The next line is blank, but is here supplied also from the Cambridge MS. Lines 239-242 come between ll. 234 and 235 in the MS.—an evident mistake.] wykyd dede, And [for no covetyse of mede]; Line 236
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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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