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William of Shoreham's
Poems.

[Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 17,376.]

De septem sacramentis. De psalmo,
Exercitatus sum et defecit spiritus.

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Man does not know whence 4 he comes, nor whither he shall go.

All his life is troubled with 7 sorrow and pain.

8 And when he is dead,

his body lies there like a

stock, all joyless.

Wipe-poute alle manere blisse.

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5. In the MS. the 'bob' of every stanza is written in the margin to the right of the first line, a curved line running down from the rime-word of the 'bob' to the corresponding one of the last line.

12. penkeste [: lengeste], phonetically pengste [: lengste].

13. And hondred for An h.

SHOREHAM

B

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25. In depes, y is written over the first e in a later hand.

33. helle, MS. telle.

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34. sauuement, above it soule sauacioun, written with pencil by a later

hand.

43. by, read pys?

51. styze, MS. steyze.

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At Confirmation the

baptized are marked for communion with those

in heaven.

To wesschen ous cryst schedde his blod
And water out of hys wonde.
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¶ Here-of spronge þe sacremens
Of holy chyrche digne ;
And his to segge sacrement

Of holy þynge signe.

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888

For gode,

91

Hou myзte fayrer signe be

pane of þe water and blode?

(14)

¶ Man, porwe pat blod þi soule his bouzt

Fram þe fendes powere;

And porwe þat water iwessche þart

Of þyne sennes here.

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95

Nou loke,

98

3oure Cristendom his tokene prof

Of criste pat we toke.

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For, zef þou uangest pane cristendom, (5) 99

And for pan bi-lef[s]t clene,

pou schelt be marked to pet stede

To wichen heuen) his ymene;

To sope,

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97. 30ure, ur in a smaller handwriting, evidently a later addition to what looks more like 3a than 30.

101. stede, in a later hand on erasure.

105. MS. toope, second o inserted by a later hand.

109. MS. in alle manere, in later addition, above the line.

I. The 7 Sacraments. 4. Penance. 6. Extreme Unction. 5

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