10659. _Whan Constantyn._ The Christian church began first to be endowed with wealth and power under the emperor Constantine the Great. 10649. Luke i, 52. 10695-10699. Instead of these lines, Whitaker's text has the following:-- And bereth name of Neptalym, Of Nynyve and Damaske. For when the holy kynge of hevene Sende hus sone to eerthe, Meny myracles he wroughte, Man for to turne, In ensample that men sholde See by sad reyson That men myghte nat be savede Bote thorw mercy and grace, And thorw penaunce and passioun, And parfyght byleyve; And bycam a man of a mayde, And _metropolitanus_ And baptisede an busshoppede Whit the blode of hus herte, Alle that wilnede other wolde Whit inwhight byleyve hit. Meny seint sitthe Suffrede deth alsoo, For to enferme the faithe Ful wyde where deyden, In Inde and in Alisaundrie, In Ermanye, in Spayne; An fro mysbyleve Meny man turnede. In savacion of mannys saule Seynt Thomas of Cauntelbury Among unkynde Cristene In holy churche was sleye, And alle holy churche Honourede for that deyinge: He is a forbusur to alle busshopes, And a bryghthe myrour, And sovereynliche to alle suche That of Surrye bereth name, And nat in Engelounde to huppe aboute, And halewen men auters. In the remainder of this passus, Whitaker's text differs much from the one I have printed, but in such a manner that to give here the variations it would be necessary to reprint the whole. In the remainder of the poem, the variations are not great or important, being only such as we always find in different copies of poems which enjoyed considerable popularity. 10716. Isai. iii, 7. 10721. Malach. iii, 10. 10733. Luke x, 27. Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo, et ex tota anima tua, et ex omni mente tua, et proximum tuum sicut teipsum. 10755. John xi, 43. 10787. _litlum and litlum_, by little and little, gradually. It is the pure Anglo-Saxon phrase. In the Anglo-Saxon version of Genesis xl, 10, the Latin _paulatim_ is rendered by _lytlum and lytlum_. 10844. Psal. xxxvi, 24. 10891. Matth. xii, 32. 11000. Luke i, 38. 11023. Matth. ix, 12. Mark ii, 17. Luke v, 31. 11033. Matth. xxvi, 37. 11044. Matth. xi, 18. 11075. Matth. xxi, 13. 11121. Matth. xviii, 7. 11238. Matth. xxvii, 46, and Mark xv, 34. 11300. Rom. iv, 13. 11322. John i, 29 and 36. 11396. Matth. xx, 40. 11518, 11520. _lo! here silver ... two pens._ It must be remembered that at this period the mass of the coinage, including pence, halfpence, and farthings, was of silver; copper came into use for the smaller coinage at a later period. Two pence of Edward III would be worth about two shillings of our modern money. 11670. John xii, 32. 11708. _tu fabricator omnium._ This was one of the hymns of the catholic church. 11866. Luke xiii, 27. 11883. 1 Corinth. xiii, 1. 11894. Matth. vii, 21.