Meditations on the Supper of our Lord and the Hours of the Passion, by Cardinal John Bonaventura the Seraphic Doctor. Drawn into English verse by Robert Manning of Brunne. (About 1315-1330.) Edited ... with introduction and glossary by J. Meadows Cowper |
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The medytacyun how cryst ȝede to helle.
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The medytacyun how cryst ȝede to helle.
Thenk, man, and se cryst aftyr hys deþ:For þy synne streyght to helle he geþ,
Oute of þe fendys bonde to þe fre,
And þe fende bonde to make to þe.
Þenk, also, þe grete dede of hys powere:
He myȝt ha sent an angel to saue vs here,
But þan of oure saluacyun we shulde nat þanke hym,
But calle þe aungel sauer of alle man kyn.
Þarfor hys fadyr so hertly loued vs,
He ȝaue vs hys owene gete sone Ihesus;
Þan we onely hym þanke and do hym onoure,
As fadyr, as former, socoure and sauyoure.
Þank we now oure sayoure, þat salue vs haþ broȝt,
Oure syke soules to saue, whan synne haþ hem soȝt.
Of hys grete godenes gyn we hym grete,
Seyyng þe wurde of sakarye þe holy prophete:
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Þy peple þou hast vysyted and boȝt hem to þe,
Whych setyn yn derkenes of deþ and dysese,
Þou lyȝtest hem and ledest yn to þe wey of pese.”
To þat pes pereles we prey þou vs bryng,
Þat leuyst and reynest with oute endyng.
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