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

                                
                                  Þen al þe world an hundred siþe,
                                
                                  Ne miht haue mad me neuer [F. half]  so bliþe.
                                
                                  His preyere was to god so dere,
                                
                                  ffor al þat he preyede [F. þat he besoghte wyþ]  he wolde here;
                                  Line 580 
                                
                                  Þeih he hedde preiȝed for a þousund mo,
                                
                                  ffrom peyne to blisse þei hedde i-go; [F. he had broȝt þo] 
                                
                                  ffor what þing he hedde asked bone,
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                                  God wolde ha [F. God hade]  graunted him ful [as]  sone.
                                
                                  Haue good day! for now I wende
                                
                                  To þat Ioye wiþ-outen ende.
                                
                                  God lete þe [F. vs]  neuere þer-of mis,
                                
                                  Þou ne he, [F. Wyþ-outyn ende]  to haue þat blis."
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                                  Þe wyf com sone on þe Morn
                                
                                  And fel on knes þat ffrere bi-forn
                                
                                  And tolde him þer eueridel
                                
                                  Hou he for his preyere was wel.
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                                  And þat ffrere ful wel he [F. þarby]  lette,
                                
                                  And þonked God, for Ioye he grette.
                                
                                  Wel weore hym at his endynge
                                
                                  Hedde such a prest for him to synge!—
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                                  In þis tale schewed is:
                                
                                  Of [F. Ouer]  alle þing good is þe mes,
                                
                                  Þe [F. For þe]  sacrament on þe Auter
                                
                                  Ouer alle passeþ his pouwer.
                                
                                  In þe Masse þei hem a-fye
                                
                                  Þe soules þat are in purgatorie. [2 vv. om.: ffor hyt makeþ mencyun of þe passyun As Iesu cryst to deþ was doun] 
                                
                                  Þe sone is offred to þe ffadur of heuene
                                
                                  ffor þe soules þe prest wol nempne;
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                                  Þat is þus for to [F. Also þys tale wyl]  mene:
                                
                                  Ȝif þe prest beo good and clene,
                                
                                  Þenne wol Ihesu crist hym heere,
                                
                                  ffor what þyng he makeþ preyere;
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                                  Preye he for soule or for bodi,
                                
                                  Þat aren in pyne or [F. or here]  in nuy,
                                
                                  Boþe wol god almihti saue
                                
                                  What þe gode prest wolde haue.
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                                  Not only for soulus is he herd,
                                
                                  Bote eke for vs here in þis world.
                                
                                  Beo a Mon in seknesse or in prisun,
                                
                                  Weyferynge, or in temptaciun,

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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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