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

                                
                                  And to alle his werkes : Beoþ euere redi!
                                
                                  Whon hit is halyday : Vche Mon ouhte wiþ rihte
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                                  To heere his seruyse in chirche : Ȝif he on eny wyse mihte,
                                
                                  And not in sleuþe ligge, : In bed a-tome abyde
                                
                                  Til þe prest haue I-seid : Þe laste non-tyde.
                                
                                  Ȝif þou go at morwe : And Matyns here erliche,
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                                  Hit is þe soule profyt : I sigge þe sikerliche;
                                
                                  Þeih þi flesch grucche : Lette nouht þerfore—
                                
                                  Þe ofter þow ouercomest hit : Þi Meede schal beo þe more;
                                
                                  Ȝif þow herest Matyns and Masse : And takest haly brede,
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                                  To Bodi and to soule : Þow wynnest muchel Mede.
                                
                                  After Mete loke þou go to þe prechynge,
                                
                                  Ȝif eny beo in toune—lette for no þynge—
                                
                                  And þat þe prechur precheþ : Vnderstonde hit wel,
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                                  And do as he þe techeþ : I rede þe, vche a del.
                                
                                  Ȝif þer no prechyng be : Go visyte þe seke,
                                
                                  Cumforte hem wiþ þin Almes : And wiþ þi wordes Meke.
                                
                                  Aftur, whon þei rynge : Go to Euen-song,
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                                  And lette for no cumpaignye : Þat þow art aMong;
                                
                                  Ȝif þow do not, for soþe : Þou dost þe deueles wille,
                                
                                  Whon þou in ganglyng and drynkyng : Dwellest wiþ hem stille.
                                
                                  Whon Euensong & cumplyn boþe ben ido,
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                                  Hom to þi soper þen wel maiȝt þou go.
                                
                                  I rede þenne, ar þow go : ffulliche in to [overl.]  þi bed,
                                
                                  Þonke crist of þat day : Þat þow hast wel I-sped;
                                
                                  And ȝif þou ouȝt hast mis-done,
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                                  Aske him merci, I rede, sone;
                                
                                  Be-teche þi lyf and þi soule : To God Almihti:
                                
                                  And þenne maiȝt þou slepe : wel and sikerly.
                                
                                  Whon þow risest vp, þonke god : Inwardliche wiþ al þi miht,
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                                  Þat þe haþ saued from encumbrement : Of þe ffend þat niht;
                                
                                  Be-teche al in godes hond : Þi preyers and þi dedes,
                                
                                  Þi wittes and þi willes : And al þyn oþer nedes.

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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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