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

                                
                                  And forto turn wine in to blude,
                                
                                  Þe same þat was sched on þe rode.
                                  Line 460 
                                
                                  Crist blisced þe brede, als sais þe boke,
                                
                                  And till his appostels he it toke,
                                
                                  And said to þam on þis manere:
                                
                                  "Þis es my fless I gif ȝow here."
                                  Line 464 
                                
                                  And efter he toke þe chalis,
                                
                                  And on þe same wise gan it blis,
                                
                                  And said to þam with mild mode:
                                
                                  "Drinkes of þis, it es my blude.
                                  Line 468 
                                
                                  And als oft-tymes als ȝe it take,
                                
                                  Mynde of me luke þat ȝe make!"
                                
                                  Þus ordand crist þis sacrament.
                                
                                  And when he vnto heuyn was went,
                                
                                  Þai did messes als he cumand,
                                  Line 473 
                                
                                  Als þai went in ilka land.
                                
                                  And when peter was pape of rome,
                                
                                  Chef cownsailoure of cristendome,
                                  Line 476 
                                
                                  Ne al þe oþer, whare þai lend,
                                
                                  Said namore þan crist had kend;
                                
                                  Ne did þarto none oþer thing,
                                
                                  When þai suld þaire messes sing,
                                  Line 480 
                                
                                  Bot þe pater noster gan þai say,
                                
                                  Als crist had cumand þaim to pray.
                                
                                  Þai had noght els bot brede and wine,
                                
                                  And goddes wordes gude and fyne.
                                
                                  Vestimentes none had þai
                                  Line 485 
                                
                                  Bot als þai werid ilka day,

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