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Parts of the Mass in English Rime

29. Pater Noster

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Emmanuel Coll., 27, fol. 162r: col. 1, toward top; col. 2, bottom; 162v.

Vre fader in heuene : yhalȝed bo þy name
þy kynedom to us mote come for þar is blisse and game
Al þi wille boe ydo : boþe day and niȝt
In heuene also on erthe : alse hit is riȝt
Vre euer echedayes bred : þov ȝif vs to day
fforgif us vre sunnes : so þov ful wel may
Al so wis . so we forgiveþ : here gultes alle
þat aȝen vs helveþ agult : Wov sit bo bifalle
Led us neuere Louerd into no fondinge
Ac lus . us . vt of vuele . and ȝif us þy blessinge.
Amen . / . so mote hit boe .

30. Aue Maria

Heyl boe þov marie : ful of godes grace
God almiȝti is wiþ þe : in eueriche place
Yblessed boe þov Leuedy ouer all wymmen
And þe bled . of þy wombe : blessed boe amen

31. Vii mortalia peccata

Prute . ȝisscinge . slevþe . wrethe . and onde:
Glotonie . and lecherie . God bringe hom vt of londe .

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32. In eleuacione eucaristie

Wolcome louerd : in likninge of bred
ffor me on rode : þat woldest bo deed
Of mine misdede : þov red me red
Schrift and husle : ar ih boe ded
Tiþe me : for þi milsfulhed

33. In manus tuas domine

Intoe þine honden louerd : bitech yh gost minne
ffor þov me boȝtest soþfast god : and luftest vt of synne

34. In nomine patris

Al fram vuele þinge : me schulde iesus þat may
Mid cristes rode tok [n]inge . ih marky . me . today
In þe name of þe fader . and of þe sone . and of þe holigoste .
Amen .

35. Per crucis hoc signum fugiet

Bi þis tokninge . of þare rode : for fram me mote floe
Alle wikkedhede : boe wat hit euere boe
And bi þat ulke tokninge : mote boe yborewe
Alle þing þat blessed is : aneune and amorewe

36. Mors tua, mors domini &c Vii cogitanda

Myn oȝen deþ and cristes : and mi wikedhede
Oute of þe dome : and purgatories drede
þe grislih pine of helle : and heueniche blisse
Ih oȝte to be þenche : ilome bote misse

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37. Vestio, cibo, poto, &c Vii opera miserecordie

Schrude and fede and drenche : and hereborwe þe pouere
Prisones and sikemen : gladien and frofre
Poveris liches burie : after mannes miȝte
þis boþ þe seue [n] workes : þat quemeþ vre driȝte