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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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Fac ad quod venisti.

Hit is þe best erele and late
Vche mon kepe his oune state.
In wat order or what degre
Hole cherche haþ bownd þe to,
Kepe hit wele, I cownsel þe,
Dissire þou neuer to go þer-fro;
I say all gate vt supra.
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A hye worchip hit is to þe
To kepe þi state and þi good name,
Leud or lered were-here hit be,
Ellis God and mon þay wol þe blame;
I say al gate vt supra.
Fore iiij [a]b[u]sions now schul ȝe here
Þat God hatis hile in his syȝt;
A harde prest, a proud frere,
An hold mon lechoure, a couard knyȝt;
I say al gate vt supra.
A prest schuld scheu vche mon mekenes,
And leue in loue and charite;
Þroȝ his grace and his goodnes,
Set al oþer in vnite;
I say al gate vt supra.
A frere schuld loue alle holenes,
Prayers, penans, and pouert[e];
Relegious men, Crist hem ches
To foresake pride and vaynglory,
I say al gate vt supra.
An hold mon schuld kepe him chast,
And leue þe synne of lechore;
Al wedid men schuld be stedfast,
And foresake þe syn of avowtre;
I sai al gate vt supra.
A knyȝt schuld feȝt aȝayns falsnes,
And schew his monhod and his myȝt,
And mayntene trouþ and ryȝtwysnes,
And hole cherche and wedowes ryȝt;
I say al gate vt supra.
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Here be al þe foure astatis,
In hole cherche God haþ ordent;
He bedis ȝou kepe hem wel al gate,
Wos[o]euer he chomys he wyl be schent;
I say al gate vt supra.
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