Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...

For he is more þan any honour, For his honour passeþ oure myȝt, For we ben his, and he is oure; All þouȝtes ben to hym dyȝt. Line 16
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¶ A specyall tyme of heryeng here. Lyueliche quyk bred is put forþ þis day, Whyche in þe table of þe holy sopere, Wiþ-outen doute was ȝouen oure fay Line 20 To þe company of twelfe breþeren þere were. By here ful heryenge, ioyed þay; Wel sowned in here ere, Wiþ ioly herte, fayre song to say. Line 24
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¶ A day is mad of solempnyte, Of þis table first ordynaunce is worschipful tolde. In þis newe kynges table, now knowe we Newe Estren endeþ the olde. Line 28 Newe thyng dryueþ old þyng fro his degre; Out of mynde, þe lasse of tolde. So soþfast sunne, by hys pouste, Dryueþ awey shadewe, and striȝeþ colde. Line 32
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¶ As lyȝt liȝteneþ nyȝt, fro derkenes of kynde, So dede crist at þe holy sopere, Bad pertely do so of hym mynde, By holy ordynaunce tauȝt vs to lere, Line 36 Halwe bred and wyn, by hys word and wynd, To an ost of helþe to cristen men here, ffro shadwe of deþ, to gostly blynd, To liȝt of lyf, to shynen clere. Line 40
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¶ Lore is ȝouen to cristen men, In-to flesch passeþ þe bred; As holychirche doþ vs kenne, [folio 124a] Þe wyn, to blod, þat is so red. Line 44
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Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., limited,
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