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PART I.
  
I. La estorie del Euangelie.
  
VII. A preyer at þe leuacioun.
  
VIII. A preyer at þe leuacioun.
  
IX. Þe fyue Ioyes of vr ladi.
  
X. An orisoun to god.
  
XI. An orisoun to vr lord Ihesu.
  
[XIII. A confessioun of wyrschip in orysoun.]
  
[XIV.] [Another Prayer to the Uirgin Mary.]
  
[XV. Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost.]
  
[XVI. A Confessioun for necligence of þe dedes of mercy.]
  
[XVII. An orysoun for sauynge of þe fyue wyttes.]
  
[XVIII. An orisoun for negligens of þe X Comaundemens.]
  
[XIX. Patris Sapiencia, sive Horae de Cruce.]
  
[XX. Ueni Creator Spiritus, englisht.]
  
[XXIII. Psalterium b. Mariae. BY ALBERTUS MAGNUS]
  
[XXIV. Psalterium b. Mariae, ascribed to Thomas Aquinas, comprising the 50 first psalms.]
  
[XXV. A salutacioun to vre lady.]
  
[XXVI. An orisoun to þe fyue woundes of ihesus cristus.]
  
[XXVIII. A salutacioun to vre lady.]
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[XXIX. Miracles of oure lady.]
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XXX. De festo corporis cristi.
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XXXI. Septem miracula de corpore cristi.
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XXXII. Hou a man schal lyue parfytly.
  
[XXXIII.] þe visions of seynt poul wan he was rapt in to paradys.
  
XXXIV. þe Pope trental.
  
Trentale sancti gregorij.
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[XXXV. þe Spore of Loue.]
  
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Of Meditacion of þi-self knowyng.
  
Meditacion of þe Soule.
  
Of Contemplacion in creature.
  
Þe secunde contemplacion In holy writ.
  
Of þe Seuene blessynges of þe gospel, Seuene dedli Synnes remedie.
  
Of þe Seuen ȝiftes of þe holigost.
  
Of þe Seuene vertues.
  
Of þe ten Comaundemens.
  
Of twelue articles of vre be-leue.
  
Of þe seuene Sacramens.
  
Of þe seuene dedes of Merci.
  
Of þe seuene druweries of Monnus bodi.
  
Of þe doweres of þe soule.
  
Of þe peynes of helle, & amonesting.
  
Of þe þridde Manere of contemplacion in god him-self.
  
Contemplacion at Matines tyme.
  
Of contemplacion at prime: of þe passion, and of þe Resureccion.
  
Of þe Resurexion.
  
Biforen vndurne: Of þe passion, and of Witsuntyd.
  
Bifore vndurne of þe holigost.
  
At Midday: of þe anunciacion, And of þe passion.
  
Also of þe passion.
  
At Noon: of þe passion, and of þe Assencion.
  
At Non of þe Assencion.
  
At euensong-tyme: of þe passion, and of þe Maunde.
  
Now of þe Maunde of Ihesu crist.
  
At cumplin-tyme: of his passion, and of his buriinge.
  
Of þe buryinge of Ihesu crist.
  
Of Contemplacion of god in his owne kynde.
  
[XXXVI. Þe Lamentacioun þat was bytwene vre lady and seynt Bernard.]
  
XXXVII. A dispitison bitwene a god man and þe deuel.
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PART II

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Afftur þis schaltou witen þen
Wȝuche ben þe comaundemens ten.
Þe furste, hit is be þin a-cord:
Worschipe to O god, vr lord.
Þen þe fend þe may not derue,
Ȝif þou him only worschipe and serue.
Worschupe him þorw feiþ and mode,
And serue him wiþ werkes gode.
Þenk ȝif þou haue alle tym
Trewely honoured hym,
And ouer alle oþur þinges
Serue[d] hym and his biddynges;
Þenk ȝif þou haue ȝolden him þi beo-hest
Þat þou be-hiȝtest hym mest or lest:
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Þou him be-hiȝtest feiþful trist
Whon þou toke þi Baptist;
Or ȝif þou haue lasse penaunce don
Þen þe was leyd penaunce vppon.
Þorwh þis comaundement al-to-gader
Mon is ordeynt to god þe ffader.
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