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

                                  
                                    Al was heþene þat was þer-Inne,
                                  
                                    fful of wikkednes and of sinne,
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                                    Til peter and poul, and seynt Ion,
                                  
                                    And oþer holye mony on,
                                  
                                    Þider come wiþ godes miht
                                  
                                    To cristene þe peple day and niht,
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                                    To teche hem cristes lore,
                                  
                                    Boþe þe lasse and eke þe more.
                                  
                                    Þer weore þei mony a gret stounde,
                                  
                                    So harde in meschef and sunne I-bounde,
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                                    Þat cristendam ne wolden take,
                                  
                                    Ne heore Maumetrie forsake;
                                  
                                    And slowen Peter and poul also,
                                  
                                    And oþer seintes mony mo:
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                                    Mony Miracle of hem gon falle
                                  
                                    In þe Cite of þe heiȝe halle,
                                  
                                    Of þe Martires þat þei hedde made,
                                  
                                    Þat coude no better rade,
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                                    And cristned bi-comen mony one
                                  
                                    Of heþene men þat weren in Rome.
                                  
                                    Þe moredel þat weore þer-inne,
                                  
                                    And also al þat þei mihte winne.
                                    Line 68 
                                  
                                    ¶ And þo þat wolde not cristned be,
                                  
                                    Weore he bonde, weore he fre,
                                  
                                    To deþe anon was he don,
                                  
                                    Moste þer no gold for him gon;
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                                    In-to Rome þus com cristendom,
                                  
                                    And for vr alre sauacion.
                                  
                                    ¶ Now þis schal beo þe parclose,
                                  
                                    No more to speken of þis prose,
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                                    But of holynesse and dignite,
                                  
                                    Graunted in chirches of þat cite.
                                    Line 78 
                                  
                                    HOse wole his soule leche . . . . . [[The rest of the poem, after 1. 78, is printed in No. 25 of the E. E. Text Society's Original Series, 1867, pages 1-24, and is therefore not repeated here. Had I recollected that the next poem—the 'Disputation'—had been printed by our late lamented friend, Dr. Richard Morris, in his Legends of the Holy Rood, E. E. T. Soc., 1871, p. 131-149, and (from the Royal MS. 18, A 10) p. 197-209, it would not have found place here; but I'd forgotten all about it till the revise came, and therefore do not cancel it.— F., 14 June, 1894.]]

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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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