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The poems of John Audelay

Edited with introduction, notes and glossary [by Ella Keats Whiting]
Audelay, John

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Audite hec, omnes gentes: hanc epistolam scripsit Dominus Ihesus Christus manibus suis et misit in siuitatem Gazon vbi ego Petrus primum episcopatum accepi.
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In die epephanis &c.
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De septem peccatis mortalibus.

In wele be ware ore þou be woo;
Þenke wens þou come, wheder to goo.
Foresake þi pride and þyn enuy,
Þou schalt fynd hit fore þe best,
Couetyse, wraþ, and lechory,
Ȝif þou wilt set þi soule in rest;
I say þe so.
Glotery, slouþ, al beþ acurst;
Þai ben þe brondis in hel brenyng;
Be ware betyme or þou be lost;
Þai bryng mon soule to euel endyng;
I sai þe so.
Aȝayns pride take buxumnes;
Aȝayns wraþ take charite;
Aȝayns couetys take largenes;
Aȝayns enuy, humelete;
I sai þe so.
Aȝayns glotore take abstenens;
Aȝayns lechore take chastite;
Aȝayns slouþe take besenes;
Here is a gracious remede;
I say þe so.
Fore His loue þat ȝoue dere boȝt,
Lerne þis lesson I ȝoue pray;
Haue þis in mynd, foreȝete hit noȝt,
Fore to heuen þer is no noþer way;
I say þe so.
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