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

Þe Sone of god com doun þo And herde hem preye, mony on mo, Þei preieden alle ful tenderli "Haue merci on vs, sone of Daui!" Line 296
ÞE vois þenne of vre heuene kyng Ouer al þe peynes was herd seying: "What good ha ȝe don herbifore Þat ȝe aske reste so sore? Line 300 I was don on cros for ȝou wiþ dere And smiten wiþ a ful scharp spere, I-nayled also wiþ nayles þree, Eysel and Galle to drynke bode me; Line 304 I ȝaf my-self for ȝou to be, ffor ȝe schulde ouer come wiþ me. Bote ȝe weore þeues, coueytous, Proude and wroþe and envyous, Line 308 Good neuer nolde ȝe do non Ne to schrift nolde ȝe not gon, Ne do penaunce for no þing Wiþ Almusdedes ne wiþ fastyng, Line 312 But ȝe weore lyȝers al ȝor lyf And liueden euere in serwe and strif."
ÞEn kneled Poul and Mihel And a Milioun Angeles wel Line 316 Bi-fore þe sone of God, to pray Þei moste ha reste þe sonenday. Þo weore þeos, as I ow telle Þat weoren in þe pynen of helle. Line 320
ÞEn seide vr lord to hem in spelle: "ffor Poul and also Michaelle And myn oþure Angeles on hiȝe, Þat ben in heuene so goode and triȝe, Line 324 And also of my grete goodnesse, Hem to ese of heore distresse, Þis rest I ȝiue ȝow ful soon ffrom þe seter-day at Non Line 328 Til þe secunde hour beo cum On þe Monenday, al and sum."
Anon þe soules hedden þer rest— He ȝaf hit hem þat mihte best. Line 332
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The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
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London,: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society,
1892-1901.
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