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

                                
                                  To here Matyns, Euensong, and Masse.
                                
                                  Whon men han aȝeyn god : In dedly synne falle,
                                
                                  Heo ouȝten for to wepe : And Merci to God calle,
                                
                                  And wenden to þe prest : Hastiliche and sone
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                                  And tellen him in schrif : What synne he haþ i-done.
                                
                                  A fool he is þat a-bydeþ : Eny gret stounde,
                                
                                  Til þer come more sor : And cleue to þe wounde.
                                
                                  Also hit fareþ bi synne : I wot wiþ-outen wene,
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                                  As doþ be þe wounde : While hit is nowe and grene.
                                
                                  Þe leche clanseþ þe wounde : Clene in þe ground
                                
                                  And leiþ salue a-boue : And makeþ hit hol and sound;
                                
                                  Mon may for a wounde : Or for a luitel sor,
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                                  Bote hit be sone I-heled : Be worse and wel mor:
                                
                                  Ȝif o sor come to anoþer : Þenne are þer two,
                                
                                  And ȝif he longe a-byde : Þen wol þer be mo;
                                
                                  His owne bone mai hit be : Longe for to abyde—
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                                  Þerfore I rede, sech leche-craft : Soone, what be-tyde.
                                
                                  Also hit fareþ bi synne : Ȝif hit I-hud is;
                                
                                  Bote hit be to þe prest : Soone I-told, I-wis,
                                
                                  Hit draweþ hem to helle-grounde : And byndeþ hem to peynes stronge;
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                                  Þe hardore peyne schal he haue : Ȝif he þer-Inne ligge longe.
                                
                                  Þe lengor þat men a-byde : Þe latere comeþ bote;
                                
                                  Þei stonde wel þe fastore : Whon þei haue take rote.
                                
                                  Þauȝ Men fallen in synne : Gret wonder hit nis;
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                                  But ligge stille þer-Inne : Þat is wonder gret, I-wis!
                                
                                  Ȝif þow liggest in þe fuir : And brennest on eny wyse,
                                
                                  Who is for to wyte : Þi-self wolt nouȝt arise?
                                
                                  Mynde haþ he non : Of God þat hym wrouhte
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                                  And on þe Roode-tre : Wiþ his passion him bouhte.
                                
                                  Wel hit is I-seene : Þat þei are ful slowe
                                
                                  Þat to þe prest nil not : Heore synnes ben a-knowe,
                                
                                  And luytel þonk þei cunne god : ffor his goode seruyse,
                                
                                  Whon þei wole not for his loue : Out of synne aryse.
                                
                                  Þinke no mon wonder : Þauh god wiþ hem [MS. him]  be wroþ
                                
                                  And take vengeaunce on hem : Beo hem neuer so loþ!
                                
                                  Schriueþ ow be-tyme : ffor loue or for feer,
                                
                                  ffor God takeþ wreche : Heer or elleswher;
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                                  Bi-weopeþ ȝoure synnes : And criȝeþ God Merci,

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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.
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