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 ...

Þou seest not fleschly þou takest þenne; Þy byleue of herte, makeþ þe fast fro ded, Wiþouten ordre of þynges, to renne, By tokene and word þat he bede. Line 48
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¶ Wiþ-outen help of ordre of þyngis, Þe bok of oure byleue is lent, Vnder dyuerce spices only tokenynges, Þouȝ þe spices fro hym be went, Line 52 Not durked ne hyd, but riȝt shynynges, Þouȝ fleschly syȝt fro hym be blent, Þe soule haþ ioye, and mery synges, When good byleue seeþ þe sacrament. Line 56
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¶ Þe blod is drynk, þe flesch is mete, Ys gostly fode, þe soules delys; Neuere-þe-lattere, of crist to trete, He dwelleþ vnder ayþer spys. Line 60 Þe ressayuour counteþ not þat þey ete, Ne brekeþ it not, but hool it lys. Þouȝ a thowsand take at o sete, Alone on takeþ as moche o prys. Line 64
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¶ While obley in yrnes, or boyst ys stoken, Hit nys but bred, and sengyl bake; Whanne þe prest, to hit, goddis wordis hath spoken, Crystys quyk body, vndir bred o cake. Line 68 Þouȝ it a þousand peces seme broken, Nes parted ne wasted, but al holl take. In byleue of holychirche, who wyl hym ȝoken, Aȝen þis, non argument may make. Line 72
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¶ That ressayueþ, children, man, and wyf, Not al yliche deuocioun. Summe taken it in synne and stryf, As bestes wiþ-outen discrecioun. Line 76
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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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