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

                                
                                  Þe iew said: "I will assent."
                                
                                  Þe cristen man to kirk es went,
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                                  And made his prayers inwardly
                                
                                  vnto oure lord god al-mighty.
                                
                                  Þe iew þan in þe way him held
                                
                                  And thoght his felaw ful lang dweld;
                                
                                  Þarfore vnto þe kirk he ȝede,
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                                  preuely forto tak hede
                                
                                  What maners was þam omang
                                
                                  Þat his felaw dweld so lang.
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                                  And þan he saw, or euer he leuid,
                                
                                  Þe prist hald vp ouer his heuid
                                
                                  A knaue-childe, with wowndes sore
                                
                                  In fete and hend; ȝit saw he more
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                                  Þat þare was nowþer wife ne man
                                
                                  Of þam þat in þe kirk was þan [hend;
                                
                                  Þat þai ne kneled and held vp þaire
                                
                                  And fra þe child þan saw he wend
                                
                                  To ilk man swilk a child to sight,
                                
                                  And euyn bitwene þaire handes it light.
                                
                                  Þe iew biheld þan to þe priste
                                
                                  Bygan to vse þe ewkariste,
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                                  He saw him ett þe same childe
                                
                                  Þat he bitwix [his] handes hilde;
                                
                                  And on þe same wise thoght him þare
                                
                                  Did all þat in þe kirk ware.
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                                  Þe iew þan went and stode þat tide
                                
                                  Whare his felow bad him abide,
                                
                                  And vnto him-self said he þan:
                                
                                  "A lathly life ledes cristen men!"

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 182
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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