The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...

                                
                                  Þe Iew seide: "ffelawe, greef þe nouht
                                
                                  Þeih I telle þe what I sayh and þouht,
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                                  Ac tel me bi sum oþur preue
                                
                                  Wher-bi I may þe soþe leue!"
                                
                                  "Þis is þe skile," quaþ þe Cristene man,
                                
                                  "Þat god nout soffreþ þe þan
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                                  Þat þou seȝe wiþ þin eȝe
                                
                                  Þe sacremens þat ben so sleȝe,
                                
                                  Þat his fflesch mihte so ben hud
                                
                                  To vs cristene wiþ-inne þe bred.
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                                  And þy kun made hym dye,
                                
                                  Þerfore al blodi þou hym seȝe."
                                
                                  "ffelawe," quaþ þe Iew þon,
                                
                                  "Help þat I were a Cristene mon;
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                                  ffor leuere ichaue cristned ben
                                
                                  Þen euere seo such a siht aȝen."
                                
                                  Þo was þe Iew cristned, and oþur mo,
                                
                                  ffor þe Miracle þat fel þo.—
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                                  Þis Bred þat is godus flesch,
                                
                                  What feiror preue wolde men esch
                                
                                  Þat vche part is godus entere?
                                
                                  Þeih hit weore parted in þreo quartere,
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                                  And þeih hit weore an hundred dole,
                                
                                  Vche part is his bodi al hole.
                                
                                  And þat loke bi skile, lo here:
                                
                                  Bi-hold þi-self in a schewere:

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 184
Publication: London,: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society,; 1892-1901.
Subject terms: English poetry

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