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
_+E+cce p{ra}ndiu{m} meu{m} paratu{m}._ Mi bord {85} is maked. ⁊
us bidde{ð} alle þer{}to þus seggende. _+V+enite p{ra}ndiu{m}._
Cumeð to borde ⁊ understondeð bred. ac er þenne þe holie bord
bugen. ⁊ þ̵ bred understonde do we alse þe ap{ostel} bad.
seiende þus. _P{ro}bet au{tem} se ip{su}m h{om}o. ⁊ sic d{e}
pane illo edat ⁊ d{e} calice bibat._ P{ro}ue ech man him seluen.
⁊ gif he feleð {90} þ̵ he is wurðe þer{}to{;} þenne understonde
he þ̵ husel. ⁊ drinke of þe calice. þe man hit understo{n}deð
wurðliche þe cumeð þerto on bicumeliche wise. ⁊ mid bicumeliche
wede. ⁊ on bicumeliche time. On bicumeliche wise [f. 45r] cumeð
þe man þe Erest sheweð p{re}ste his sinnes ⁊ forleteð ⁊
bim{ur}neð ⁊ nimeð þerof god wissinge. ⁊ oðer {95} siðe þe holie
acxen uppen his heued. ⁊ þe six pinen þe þerto bilien.
[Linenote:
86. _bidded_ MS.]
_s{cilicet} vigilias. labores. saccu{m}. i{n}edia. siti{m}._ þ̵
is wecche ⁊ swinch. harde cloðes. smerte dintes. selde eten ⁊
lesse drinken. Þridde siðe palm sunedeies p{ro}cession. feorðe
siðes shereðuresdaies absolucio[n] þe liðe þe sinne bendes. þe
fifte siðe crepe to cruche on {100} lange fridai[.] sixte siðe
on ester euen gon abuten þe fantston. þe bitocneð þe holie
sepulc{re}. ⁊ þe seueðe siðe þ̵ holie bord bugen ⁊ þ̵ bred
bruken. bicumeliche wede ben tweire kinne. lichamliche ⁊
gostliche. þe lichamliche wedes ben manie kinnes. ac of hem ne
speke ich noht ac do of þe gostliche. þe ben ec fele kinnes. ⁊
alle hie bien {105} faire hi{m} þe þe husel underfoð. ac two
þer{}offe ben swiche þ̵ no man ne mai under{}fo. him selue{n} to
hele bute he haue here oðer on him. þe ben þus clepede.
_+V+estis innoce{n}cie. +V+estis m{isericord}ie._ an is
loðlesnesse oðe`r´ sinbote. _+V+estis innocencie restituit{ur}
in baptismo dicente sac{er}dote. [A]ccipe ueste{m} ca{n}dida{m}
⁊_ {110} _i{m}mac{u}lata{m}._ loðlesnesse understondeð þe man at
his folcni{n}ge. ⁊ þ̵ bitocneð þe c{ri}sme cloð. þe þe p{re}st
bi{}windeð þ̵ child mide. ⁊ þus seið. Underfo shrud wit ⁊ clene.
þis shrud haueð ech man on him aft{er} his fulcni{n}ge. alle þe
wile þe he hi{m} beregeð þ̵ he ne do ne ne q{ue}ðe. ne ne ðenche
no þing for þat he bie unwurðere gode{;} {115} [f. 45v] ne
loðere men{;} þe iuele is soule. Þis wede is wel bicumeliche ⁊
biheue ech man to hauen þenne he husel underfoð. Ðet oðer
gostliche shrud ich embe spece{;} is mildhertnesse. þe is nemed
ec{;} armhertnesse armheorted is þe man. þe swiðere reoweð his
sinne. ⁊ he he{m} for{}let ⁊ bet. ⁊ milce bit. alse ure
drihte{n} bad seien þus. {120}
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