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

                                
                                  He wol don on his canter-cope [ags. cantelcapa pallium] 
                                
                                  And gon as he were a Pope;
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                                  Siþen he wole wiþ springel-stikke
                                
                                  Ȝiuen holy water a-bouten þikke,
                                
                                  And syngen loude wiþ schil þrote,
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                                  And seiþ hit is þe soule note
                                
                                  Þat þe prest seiþ and doþ—
                                
                                  Þe folk weneþ þat hit be soþ;
                                
                                  Bi-fore his Auter he wol stonden
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                                  And holde vp an heiȝ boþe his honden,
                                
                                  He wol synge mony a þrowe,
                                
                                  Sum-time heiȝe & sum-time lowe,
                                
                                  He wole him turne & take good hede
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                                  Ȝif eny Mon him bringe mede.
                                
                                  Ȝif muche folk come and þringe
                                
                                  Offringe faste him to brynge,
                                
                                  He wole amende faste his song—
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                                  Þat tyme þinkeþ him not long.
                                
                                  And whon þei wole him no-þing brynge,
                                
                                  Lust him no-þing for to synge,
                                
                                  ffaste he hiȝeþ hym to spede
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                                  And ȝiueþ hem of his holy brede—
                                
                                  Þat is þe beste of al his dede,
                                
                                  ffor hit helpeþ to monnes nede;
                                
                                  Þauȝ hit be luytel, hit turneþ to gode,
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                                  ffor hit helpeþ to Monnes foode.
                                
                                  Whon he haþ al I-do,
                                
                                  He ȝiueþ heom leue and let hem go;
                                
                                  But euer a-Mong al oþur nede
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                                  His oune erende wol he bede,
                                
                                  Þat þei brynge heore offrynges
                                
                                  To Chirche, and heore tyþinges.
                                
                                  Wel þou wost þat þis is soþ:
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                                  Al for his owne gode he hit doþ;
                                
                                  Kepeþ he nouȝt of heore comynge,
                                
                                  But ȝif þei wole him eni good bringe.—
                                
                                  But, ȝif þou wolt on eny wyse
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                                  At Chirche here þi seruyse,
                                
                                  A-tome þou maiȝt ful wel abyde
                                
                                  Til he haue seid þe laste tyde;

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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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