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

                                
                                  Þat ȝif we ne ete of þulke brede
                                
                                  Ne drynke his blood, vr lyf were dede.—
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                                  And þeih we ete hit al þus here,
                                
                                  Hit is in heuene al entere.
                                
                                  So schaltou leeue, Cristene mon,
                                
                                  Þat in no weere þi leue beo on!
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                                  ffor þi feiþ tit no mede
                                
                                  Where þing of deþ takest hede;
                                
                                  Hit is inpossyble to serue crist
                                
                                  But þi be-leeue beo good and trist.
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                                  And eȝe of feiþ hit is ful kene
                                
                                  Þat seoþ a siht þat is not sene.
                                
                                  Þerfore alle þing þat we [ne] seoþ
                                
                                  Leeue we as holychirche deþ,
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                                  ffor þat I holde þe rihte fey
                                
                                  And to heuene þe nexte wey.—
                                
                                  To telle more I mot nede
                                
                                  Hou men ete Angeles Brede.
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                                  Of ffoles I herde herby-fore
                                
                                  Þat wyse men toke of hem heore lore,
                                
                                  And so a sek mon mihte teche
                                
                                  A good skile perauenture bifore a leche.
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                                  Þis Bred mihte [r. may]  neuermore be spende
                                
                                  Til [r. ffor]  God hym-self on eorþe hit sende,
                                
                                  To saue mon fro pyne of helle,
                                
                                  So þat he kepe hit welle.
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                                  Sum tyme such lawe þer was
                                
                                  Þat vche sonday after mas

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 189
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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