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

                                
                                  'Sciant presentes & futuri,
                                
                                  wite ȝe þat are and schal be-tyde,
                                
                                  þat Jhesu crist wiþ blodi syde,
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                                  þat was boren in Bedleem
                                
                                  And offred in to Jerusalem,
                                
                                  þe kynges sone of heuene aboue,
                                
                                  with mi ffadres wille and loue
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                                  Made a sesyng whon I was born,
                                
                                  To þe, Monkynde, þat was forlorn.
                                
                                  wiþ my cha[r]tre here present
                                
                                  I make nou a confirmament:
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                                  þat I haue graunted and ȝiuen
                                
                                  To þe, Monkynde, with me to liuen
                                
                                  In my Rewme of heuene-blis,
                                
                                  To haue and to holden wiþ-outen mis,
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                                  In a condicion, ȝif þou be kynde
                                
                                  And my loue-dedes haue in Mynde;
                                
                                  ffre to haue, and fre to holde,
                                
                                  wiþ al þe purtynaunce to wolde,

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 652
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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