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

                                
                                  to af & to hald with-outy[n] mysse
                                
                                  þat for-sayd place, heuen-blysse,
                                
                                  In þat blyssed place for euer to dwell,
                                
                                  for þe rent þat I sall þe tell,
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                                  þat blysfull place þat is so fre,
                                
                                  with-outyn omage or fewte.
                                
                                  for, sone, I aske of þe no more,
                                
                                  bot a foure-lewed gyrsse pay me þer|fore:
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                                  þe fyrst lewe es schryft so smert;
                                
                                  þe secund, for þi syn, soro of hart;
                                
                                  þe thyrd es 'I wyll no more do so';
                                
                                  þe ferthe es penance ewened þer-to.
                                
                                  wen þis lewes ere to-geder knytte,
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                                  a 'trew-luf' men may calle itte.
                                
                                  Of þis rent be þu noȝt be-hynd,
                                
                                  þe way to heuen if þu wyll wynd!
                                
                                  And als þou þis rent treuly pays me,
                                
                                  My gret mercy sall I gyf þe.
                                
                                  If þou fall, & gretely mystake,
                                
                                  ȝit þis charter will not I forsake;
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                                  for wo so mendes, & mercy wyll crafe,
                                
                                  My blystful ioy trewly sall he hafe.
                                
                                  Bot many ere now lywyng here
                                
                                  þat pays not þer rent be ȝere,
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                                  Bot labures ful fere in dyuerse warke;—
                                
                                  þis knawes bothe lewde & clarke;—
                                
                                  þerfore in wat a-state god has þe sent,
                                
                                  Do trewly þi labure, þan pays þou þi rent.
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                                  þi gostly warkes þat þou sal werke,
                                
                                  Are þe sacrementes of haly kyrke:

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 654
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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