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

                                
                                  Bot, dere saule, be þou reght glade!
                                
                                  Be-twyx þe & me pese es made.
                                
                                  Hy went to helle þis charter to schew,
                                
                                  To satanas þat es so mekyll a schrew;
                                
                                  þer I hym schent & broght to grounde
                                
                                  Thrught my nayles, spere & wounde,
                                
                                  And after a conant made þer was
                                
                                  Be-twene me & satanas:
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                                  Alle my catell to af a-way,
                                
                                  þat he refte me with hys fals pray.
                                
                                  þe thyrd day I rase, & made a fest
                                
                                  Vnto þe most & vnto þe lest:
                                  Line 520 
                                
                                  þe fest was of ioy & blyse;
                                
                                  Pasche-day called it ese.
                                
                                  þe seles þat þe charter es seled with, [folio 116:2] 
                                
                                  þai ware made at a smythe;
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                                  Of golde nor syluur were þai noght:
                                
                                  Wyt a spere to my hart þai soght;
                                
                                  Wiþ Iryn nayles þai nayled me
                                
                                  Thrugh fote & hand vntyl a tre;
                                  Line 528 
                                
                                  On þis maner was I stong
                                
                                  Thrugh my scynne & my long;
                                
                                  In my reght syde þai mad a wonde;
                                
                                  þe blode ran downe to þe grownde.
                                
                                  þe selyng-wax was dere boght;
                                  Line 533 
                                
                                  At my hart-rote þai it soght,
                                
                                  Als it were tempurde wiþ vermy[ly]on
                                
                                  Of my hart blode þat ran þer don.

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
Canvas: Page 661
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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