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

                                
                                  I touched er [See Furniv., p. 274-5.]  of þis outrage
                                
                                  Whon I spac of þe [om. in F.]  sacrilage,
                                
                                  Þat þe holigost schewed him nouht
                                
                                  ffor þe Dekene syngede in þouht;
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                                  In þe tale of Ion Grisostomus
                                
                                  Þis tale is told, for ow and vs.
                                
                                  Als is he worþi to ben i-schent
                                
                                  Þat sone aftur þe sacrament
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                                  To folye and to synne drawes—
                                
                                  Luitel of Godus vengaunce hym awes!
                                
                                  Ȝif þou forȝete or ouer-sittes
                                
                                  Þe tyme of hosul þat þou wel wittes,
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                                  Luitel fors of him þou ȝeues,
                                
                                  Nouþur þou louest hym ne leues. [F. þou louest hym nat þat þou by lyues] 
                                
                                  And ouer al he loueþ þe best;
                                
                                  And þou ne wolt a nihtes gest
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                                  Leten hym herborwe in þin hous!
                                
                                  Þou art vnkynde and [F. ryȝt]  Meruylous,
                                
                                  Þat al þe ȝer þou letest him weyue,
                                
                                  Wiþ worschipe woltou not him resceyue.
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                                  God Manaseþ for þis chesun,
                                
                                  ffor [F. And]  riht hit wole and eke resun:
                                
                                  ffor suche men aren holden vntrewe
                                
                                  In þe Olde lawe and in þe newe.
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                                  Comaunded [F. Comaundement]  In þe Olde lawe was
                                
                                  Ones in þe ȝeer to schewe þi trespas.
                                
                                  Þe newe lawe is of þe more honour,
                                
                                  Ones in þe ȝeer [F. Ones to]  resceyue þi creatour,
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                                  Ones a ȝer him to knoweleche,
                                
                                  Þi lord to plese for doute of wreche.
                                
                                  Þat prest i blame ouer alle þinge,
                                
                                  Wiþ-outen gret skil þat letteþ to synge;
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                                  ffor mony a soule mihte I-saued be [F. be saued] 
                                
                                  Wiþ þat Masse þat þenne leueþ he. [F. he haþ leued] 
                                
                                  ffor alle þat in þe [om. in F.]  peyne Is,
                                
                                  Abydeþ socour of þe Mes,
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                                  ffor eueri Masse makeþ Memorie
                                
                                  Of soules þat aren In purgatorie.
                                
                                  Muche þonk schal he [F. þat prest]  haue
                                
                                  Þat helpeþ soules for to saue;

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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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