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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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1. Narracio cuiusdam religiosi.
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2. Narracio presbiteri parochialis.
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(3.) Narracio felicis presbiteri.
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(4.) hou a man of Souþfolk was saued þorou a masse.
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(5.) Narracio Bede.
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(6.) Of a man þat was closed in a myne.
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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.]
  
[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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Þe wikked gost was ful ȝare
And ȝaf þe gode mon onsware:
“Þow spekest,” he seide, “of louyng,
Þat mon schulde furst of alle þing;
Þat loue god schal eueri mon,
And siþen his neihȝebor, as he con.
Bote hou miȝtest þou trewe loue
Haue to him þat is aboue,
Whon he so ofte wraþþeþ þe
And let þe in muche myschef be?
He let þi catel from þe falle,
Hors in stable and Oxe in stalle,
And oþer þing awey let go,
And suffreþ þe be brouȝt in muche wo.
Ȝif þou art sek in syde and Ribbe,
Þat vnneþes maiȝt þou libbe,
Or þin hed sore akeþ
And al þi bodi for serwe quakeþ,
Þorw him þe comeþ al þis.
Loue him not, I rede, I-wis!
Hou miȝtest þou loue him wiþ skile
Þat miȝte þe helpe and ne wile?”
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