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

                                
                                  And þat wraþþhe comeþ of sorwe,
                                
                                  And [F. þat]  of wonhope wol muche Borwe.
                                
                                  Þis sacrament of þe Messe
                                
                                  Loueþ not such Idelnesse,
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                                  Not wiþ non nul he dwelle
                                
                                  Bute þer men of þe [om. in F.]  Ioye spelle.
                                
                                  Þe paast of þe oble seid beo-forn
                                
                                  Schal not beo of medlet corn,
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                                  Bote al onliche of whete:
                                
                                  ffoule desires [F. þe mastlyoun]  schal men lete,
                                
                                  Þat bi-meneþ, In no wyse
                                
                                  We schal vs ȝiue to [F. medel wyþ]  Couetyse,
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                                  Þat is also called [F. And namely wyþ]  Aueryce,
                                
                                  Þe whuche is a foul [F. ys tolde a]  wikked vice.
                                
                                  Also þou seost þe oble is þinne
                                
                                  And muche honeste wiþ-Inne: [F. & grete dunhede ys noun þer-ynne] 
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                                  And þat wol wel signefye
                                
                                  Aȝeyn þe sinne of glotenye;
                                
                                  Þer wol not þe sacrament reste,
                                
                                  Ac [F. þere]  glotenye wol him out keste.
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                                  And as [om. in F.]  þou sest, þe oble is whit:
                                
                                  So schul we haue no-maner delyt
                                
                                  Of no-maner fflesches take, [F. of flesshely lak] 
                                
                                  ffor lecherie [F. Of l. þat]  makeþ þe soule blake.
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                                  Þeos seuene partyes [F. propertes]  beþ
                                
                                  In þe Oble, as we seoþ,
                                
                                  And eueri propurte þer-Inne
                                
                                  Is aȝein an hed-synne.
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                                  A-ȝeyn þis sacrament do þo
                                
                                  Þat aren in synne and þerto go,
                                
                                  Or aren in wille aȝeyn to wende
                                
                                  To synne and hem-self schende;
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                                  As [F. Also a]  prest þat goþ to synge Mes
                                
                                  Þat in dedly synne is;
                                
                                  An hondred-fold he sungeþ more
                                
                                  Þe[n] he a lewed mon wore.
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                                  Alle þat receyue þe sacrament
                                
                                  In dedly sunne or wikked entent
                                
                                  Or [om. in F.]  in eny of þeose [F. þese yche]  seuene
                                
                                  Þat þou hast here herd nempne,

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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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