English fragments from Latin medieval service-books : $b with two coloured facsimiles from medieval prymers
Religion
English fragments from Latin medieval service-books : $b with two coloured facsimiles from medieval prymers
Catholic Church -- Liturgy
[4]N. Wiltow haue þis man to þin housbonde, to been buxum to hym,
and serue hym, and loue hym, and worschipe hym, and kepe hym in
syknes and in hele, as a wif owith to do here housbonde, and alle
oþer men forsaken for hym, and only to drawe to hym as longe as
ȝowre bothyn lyues to-gedere lasten?
* * * * *
I .N. take the N. to myn wedded wyf, to haue and to holde from þis
day forward, for beter, for wers, for richere, for porere, for
fayrere, for fowlere, in seknes and in helthe, til deth vs departe,
ȝif holy chirche it wil ordeyne: and therto I plithe þe myn trewthe.
* * * * *
I .N. take the N, to myn weddid housbonde, to haue and to holde from
þis day forward, for beter, for wers, for richer, for porere, for
fayrere, for fowlere, in seknes and in hele, to be boner and buxu{m},
[5]as a wyf owyd to hur husb[an]dd,[5] til deth vs departe, as holi
cherche it [5]wil[5] ordeyne: and therto i plith the myn trowthe.
* * * * *
[6]With þis ryng I þe wedde, and þis gold and siluer I þe ȝeue, and
with al myn bodi I the worschepe, and with al myn wordlich catel
I the honowre.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] leaf 25.
[2] leaf 25, back.
[3] leaf 26.
[4] leaf 26, back.
[5-5] In a later hand.
[6] leaf 27, back.
FROM THE OFFICE FOR THE VISITATION OF THE SICK.
_From the British Museum
Manual, MS. 32,320_ (xv cent.).
How men þat ben in hele sculde
visite sike men.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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