Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts
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Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
_+I+er{usa}l{e}m int{er}p{re}tat{ur} uisio pacis ⁊ ite{m}
sig{nificat} eccl{es}iam. in q{ua} pax uera uidet{ur}. du{m}
passio x{rist}i recolit{ur}. et pacis osc{u}l{u}m dat{ur}._
Ier{usa}l{e}m is cleped soð of sahtnesse. {50} ⁊ bitocneð holie
chirche þer bileffulle men inne beð sehte. þenne p{re}st
c{ri}stes þroweinge minegeð. ⁊ of þe calice understondeð tocne
of sehtnesse. þ̵ is messe cos. ⁊ þe folc sent. ⁊ þer{}mide
bitocneð þ̵ ure drihten is þureh þe holie loc wið bileffulle men
maked sehte. ⁊ þerfore chirche haueð þe tocninge of bethphage
þenne {55} þe p{ro}ession ut goð of ier{usa}l{e}m. ⁊ eft þenne
it{}in cumeð. Nime we þenne geme gif ure p{ro}cession bi maked
aft{er} ure helendes p{ro}cession.
On his p{ro}cession ferde sume biforen him ⁊ makede his weie
to{}ward ier{usa}l{e}m. ⁊ sume briggeden þe asse mid here
cloðes. ⁊ sume mid boges þe hie breken of þe trewes. Ðo þe þe
weie {60} makeden biforen him. bien folkes lorþeawes. bisshopes
⁊ p{re}stēs. þe mid here wise lore rideð. ⁊ make{ð} godes weie
in to mannes heorte. Ðo þe briggeden þe asse mid here cloðes.
ben þo þe wisseð þe folc mid faire forbisne of here weldede. Ðo
þe briggeden þe asse mid þe brokene boges. ben þo þe leren þe
folc to understonden god noht mid {65} wel dede. ac mid wise
speche. þo þe aft{er} hi{m} comen ben þo þe here lif [leden]
alse here lorðeawes hem lereð. þo þe bisides weren on his riht
half. ben þo þe clene lif leden to quemende gode{;} noht for
hereworde. þo þe on his lift hond comen ben þo þe clenliche
liuen [f. 44v] noht forto q{ue}mende gode{;} ac for hereword to
haue{n}.
[Linenotes:
62. _maked_ MS. || 64. _hereweldede_ MS.]
Ðe {70} asse þe ure helende uppe set. ben þo forsinegede þe
hauen al here þonc uppen eorðliche richeise. ⁊ sinne hem is loð
to leten. ⁊ unwill[i]che to bete. for hem þincheð þ̵ godes hese
heuieliche semeð. ⁊ naðeles gif hie ful don hie shulen on heuene
endelese mede fon. Ure lou{er}d ih{es}u x{r}i{st} þe makede
i{n}to ier{usa}l{e}m þis dai his holie p{ro}cession. þe ech
chirche to{}dai minegeð. wisse ⁊ fulste us swo to folgen his
holi eorliche p{ro}cession þ̵ we mo ben on þe holie p{ro}cession
þe he wile maken adomes dai mid hise chosene{;} fro þe dome i{n}
to heuene. _Q{uod} nob{is} p{re}stet q{ui} s{e}cla p{er} o{mn}ia
regnat._ {80}
B. IN DIE PASCHE
[Headnote: Panis Angelicus Fit Panis Hominum]
_++Hec est dies q{uam} fecit d{omi}n{u}s exultem{us} ⁊ letem{ur}
in ea._ Þis dai haueð ure drihten maked to gladien. ⁊ to blissen
us þonked wurðe him. ⁊ giarked þ̵ holie gestni{n}ge. þe he offe
spe`c´ð þus q{ue}ðinde.
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