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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»a S. X. JuLT 21. '60. 



Ine hys P3'ne hys stronge therst 

 Sthanchede hy wyth galle ; i 



Sothat Godes holy lombe 



Of senne wesche ous alle." — p. 85. 



Moreover, as a book of dally prayer- for the 

 laity, the Horce B. V. Marice ad usum Sarum, 

 was drawn up, and in all educated people's hands : 

 in it, besides many beautiful prayers addressed to 

 our divine Redeemer, we have the ofSce De 

 Cruce ; and how that form of supplication taught 

 the unspeakable merits of the Atonement, may be 

 gathered from the words of its first collect : — 

 " Domine Jesu Xpe fili del vivi pone passionem, 

 crucem et mortem tuam inter indicium tuum et 

 animas nostras," &c. The devotion to the five 

 great wounds of our Lord upon the cross was of 

 old in universal favour : it had given it a beau- 

 tiful symbolism by our forefathers, who loved to 

 look upon those five wounds as so many well- 

 springs of that blessed blood which washes away 

 the guilt of all those sins committed in those five 

 bodily senses of ours ; and the sour eisel, and the 

 bitter gall which drenched the mouth of our dying 

 Lord, they understood were tasted by Him in 

 especial atonement for each and all our sins of 

 speech, while He wore the crown of thorns to 

 satisfy for all our sins of wicked thought. The 

 above devotion showed itself in many ways ; thus 

 John Baret says : — " I wille have at myn inter- 

 ment at my diryge and messe v. men clad in 

 blak in wurshipye of Jbus v. woundys — eche of 

 them holdyng a torche of clene vexe." — Bury 

 Wills, printed by Camden Soc. p. 17. ; and Arch- 

 bishop Scrope, as he was about to be so wrongfully 

 beheaded, thus addressed his executioner : — " de- 

 precor, ut des mihi cum gladio tuo quinque vul- 

 nera in collo meo, quae sustinere cupio pro amore 

 Domini mei Jesu Christi, qui pro nobis obediens 

 patri usque ad mortem quinque vulnera princi- 

 palia sustinuit." — Anglia\Sac. ii. 370. 



With those who could not read, as well as with 

 such as could, in fact with all, high and low, rich 

 and poor, learned and unlearned, the saying of 

 the beads was a most favourite devotion ; so much 

 so that a pair of" Pater-nosters" was always worn 

 openly about the person, and became an article 

 of dress. Now the object, nay, the very essence 

 of that form of prayer is to set before the mind 

 in due succession the incarnation, the great in- 

 cidents in the life, the death upon the cross, the 

 rising from the grave, the going up to heaven of 

 our Lord ; in other words, to remind us of every 

 thing belonging to the whole mystery of the 

 Atonement. 



Our old English hymns and pious songs abound 

 with passages to our purport : — Vexilla regis pro- 

 deunt, Sfc. 



" The Kynges baneres beth forth y-lad ; 



The rode tokne is nou to-sprad. 



Whar he that wrouth havet al monkinne, 



An-honged was vor cure sinne. 



To washen ous of sinne clene 



Water and blod ther ronne at ene," &c. 



ReliquicB Antiques, i. 87. 



" Swet Jhesus, hend and fre, 

 What was i-strawgt on rode tre, 

 Nowthe and ever mid us be 



and us schild fram sinne ; 

 Let thou nogt to belle te 



thai that beth her inne ; 

 So brigte of ble, thou hire me, 



hoppe of all man-kynne, 

 Do us i-se the Trinitd 



and hevene riche to wiune."— 76. ii. 190. 



" Jhesu Crj'st, myn lemman swete, 

 That for me deyedes on rode tre, 

 Wiht al myn herte I the biseke, 



For thi wndes to and thre 

 That al so faste in myn herte 



Thi love roted mute be, 

 As was the spere into thi side, 

 Whan thou sulfredis ded for me ! " 



lb. ii. 119. 



From some beautiful lines on " Love," take the 

 following : — 



" Crist made to man a fair present, 

 His blody body with love y-brent, 

 That blisful body his lyf hath sentj 

 For love of man whom sin hath blent. 

 O, love ! love ! what hastow ment ? 



His herte is rent, his body is blent 



Upon the roode tree ; 



Wrong is went, the devel is shent, 



Crist, thorug the raygt of thee." — Ih. i. 1G6. 



" In manus tuas. 



" Loverd Godd, in hondes tine, 

 I Wquethe soule mine, 

 Thu me boctest with thi deadd, 

 Loverd Godd of sothfastheedd." — lb. i. 235. 



" Man, be war, Sfc. 



" Thi tunge is mad of fleych and blod, 

 Evele to spekyn it is not good, 

 But Cryst that deyid upon the rood, 

 So gyf us grace our tunges to spare," &c. 



" Prey to Cryst with blody syde. 

 And othere woundes grile and wyde, 

 That he for-geve the thi pryde 

 And thi syanys that thou hast doo." 



lb. ii. 165, 166. 



In his verses upon the seven sacraments, Wil- 

 liam de Shoreham says thus of the Eucharist : — 



" Alle taketh that rygt body 



Thyse men at hare houslynge : 



And that hys swete Ihesu Cryst 



Ine flesche and eke ine blonde, 

 That tholede pyne and passyoun. 



And diath opene the roude," &c. 



And in other verses : — 



" We the honreth, Ihesu Cryst, 



And blesseth ase thou os tougtest ; 

 For thourg thy crouche and passyon 

 Thys wordle thou for-bougtest." 



pp. 25. 82. 



