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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¶ In wordis þey sayn þey wil do wel, Take cure of soules as worthi clerkis, And resceyue þe charge euery del To wasche synful soules serkis. Line 172 Þey preue hemself fooles in werkis; Wiþ holy water nele no parischen wete. Caste away Antecrist merkis, Goþ wiþ god of pes to trete. Line 176
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¶ Now sumwhat y haue ȝow sayd What is salue to ȝoure sore. [[MS. store]] To sauȝten wiþ god, holde ȝow payed, And arraye ȝow wel þerfore Line 180 To resceyue god, ȝoure soules store, His body in forme of bred o whete, And kepe hym: so ȝe nede no more Eft of pes wiþ hym to trete. Line 184
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¶ Whan þou hast told al þy greuaunce, Þan do as þe prest þe tauȝte; Holde wel þy penaunce; Repentaunce, [folio 108a] forȝete þat nouȝt. Line 188 Whan ȝe wiþ loue god han lauȝt, Neuere fro ȝow hym ȝe lete. God brynge ȝow to his angels sauȝt, Þere neuere nys nede o pes to trete. Line 192

X. A good steryng to heuenward.

[Digby 102, leaf 108.] [15 stanzas of 14, abab, abab, cc, ddd, c.]

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Many man is loþ to here Repref of vices and werkis ylle; For pride hem þenkeþ goddis pere, Þat welde þis worldis wele at wylle; Line 4 At a sarmon wil bid a frere Make it short, or ellys be stylle.
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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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