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[Poems from the Vernon MS]


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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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[XXXVI. Þe Lamentacioun þat was bytwene vre lady and seynt Bernard.]
  
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XXXVII. A dispitison bitwene a god man and þe deuel.
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PART II

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“Merci,” seide Bernard, “heuene queene,
Þou hast so muche me i-told!
Ȝit þer is wel more I-sene,
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Þat ful fayn witen I wold:
Hou bar my lord him, ladi schene,
A-Mong þe Iewes breme and bold?
His harde peynes alle be-dene
But þou me teche, myn herte is cold.
“Ladi, of þe and of þi childe
I wolde wite a more strif:
What dude my lord meke and mylde
To þe endyng of his lyf?
I haue seȝen séé and watres wylde,
Stremes and wawes two and fyue;
Swete ladi, from schome vs schylde
And to riȝte hauene þou [do] vs ryue!
“I haue seȝen men þat nolde not loute
Til þat þei þe harde I-seȝe,
And siþen for drede of deþes doute
Heore herte a-rysen vp an hiȝe.
Whon his enemys were him a-boute,
Hou miȝt he al heor scornyng driȝe?
In his face þei spitte and spoute:
Whi wolde he suffre þat vilenye?”
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