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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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At Noon: of þe passion, and of þe Assencion.

Be-þenk þe at þe vre of noon:
Whon crist hed seid þat al was don,
Mildeliche wiþ-outen bost
To his ffader he ȝeld his gost,
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And to him he made a cri
Hely lamaȝabatani,
Þat is to seye aftur þe Book
“ffader, whiere þou me forsok?”
As hos seiþ, þus here for to spille;
A, lord, for hit was þi wille.
A blynd kniht þen atte laste
A Spere þorw [his] herte þraste,
Þat Blod and water þen out ȝede.
Þerof we schulde take good hede:
Þe blynde kniȝt þerof cauȝte his siht,
And vre Bapteme þere hedde miȝt.
Lord, ȝif me grace day and niht
To þenke how deolfulliche þou were diht!
Þe sonne for deol þen lees his liht,
ffor to be wreken of his dispiht;
Hulles and dales þei al to-schoken,
And þe stones al to-broken.
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