Aug. 25. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



141 



" By the, lady, ymaked is the pes 



Betwix angellis and man, it is no dout ; 

 Blissit be god, yat suich a moder ches, 

 Ye passing bounte spredeth all about : 

 Yo' yat our hertis sterne be and stout, 

 You cast to crist befor ivs suich a meyne, 

 That all our gilt forgevin be ws cleue. 



" Paradice zettis all open bene throu the. 

 And brokin bene the zettis ek of hell ; 

 By the ye waurld restorit is pardee ; 

 Of all wertu you art ye spring and well ; 

 By thee, all gudnes, schortlie for to tell, 

 In hevin and erth be j'ine ordinaunce 

 Performet is our saulis sustenaunce. 



" Now, sene you art of suich autorite. 

 You petius lady and virgin vainles, 



Pray yi dier sone, my gilt forgeue it me. 

 Of ye request, I know weill doutles : 

 Than spare not to put the furth inpres, 



To prey for us, cristis moder so deir; 



For yi prayer he will beneyngly heir. 



" Apostill and frend familiar of crist. 



And virgin, ychose of him, sanct Johne ; 



Schynyng apostle and euuangelist, 

 And best belouit amangis yame Ichone : 

 With our lady, I pray ve, you be one, 



That on to crist sal for us all preye ; 



Do vis for us, cristis darling, 1 seye. 



" Mary and Johnne, hevj^nis gemmis tweyne, 

 O lichtis twoo, schynyng in ye presence 

 Of our lord god, now" doth yC lusty pevne. 

 To wesche away our cloude full of offence ; 

 So yat we raycht maken resistance 

 Agane the feynd, and mak him to be waile, 

 That yo'' prayer may us so moche availl. 



" Ye bene the twoo, I know weralv. 

 In quhich the fader God can edefy, 



By his sone only gottin speciallj' 



To him a hous, quharfor to you I cry, 

 Beeth leichis of our synfull malady, 



Prayeth to god, lord of "misericord, 



Our old giltis that he not record. 



" Be ye our help and our protectioun, 

 Sene for mercy of yo"" benignite. 

 The preuelege of his dilectioun 

 In you, confermyt God, upone the tre 

 Hanging; and to one of you, said he, 

 Eicht in this wys, as I reheVs now can, 

 • Behold and see, lo heir yin sone, woman I ' 

 " And to that vther, ' Heir is yi moder too ; ' 

 Yan pray I you for that great sueitnes 

 Of the haly luf yat god betwix vou twoo 

 With his mouth maid and of his hie nobles 

 Commandit hath you throu his blissitnes. 

 As moder and sone to help us in our neid 

 And for our synnis mak or hartis bleid. 



" Un to j'ou tweyne now I my soule commend, 

 Mary and Johne, for my saluacioun, 

 Helpeth me yat I my lif mav mend, 

 Helpeth now that'the habitacioun 

 Of the holy gost, our recreacioun, 

 Be in my hart now and euermor; 

 And of my soule wesch away the sor. 

 « Explicit oratio Galfridi Chauceik." 

 As it Is highly probable that other minor poems 

 from the pen of England's first, and, with one 

 No. 304.] 



exception, England's greatest poet, are still lying 

 enshrined among the many volumes of Early MS. 

 poetry still preserved to us, and that their exist- 

 ence may be known to some readers of "N. & Q.," 

 I shall be well pleased should the present attempt 

 to recall attention to Chaucer and his writings be 

 the means of inducing them to give his admirers 

 the benefit of such knowledge. 



Philo- Chaucee. 



THE LATE THOMAS BODD. 



The eulogy with which the late Mr. Rodd has 

 been so deservedly mentioned by Dr. Bliss, and 

 in the Oxford Obituary, induces me to propose 

 that the correspondents of that amiable and intel- 

 ligent bookseller should communicate in the pages 

 of " N. & Q." some of the valuable communi- 

 cations received from him, which they may have 

 preserved. The letter from which the following 

 extracts are selected is dated August 16, 1846, 

 and evinces the same insatiable pursuit of know- 

 ledge with which he was animated — 



" In the morning of life when the spirits are young." 



1 cannot but feel what delight it would have 

 afforded Mr. Rodd, had his life been spared, to 

 have witnessed the progress of " N. & Q.," and to 

 have made it the channel of imparting his vast 

 miscellaneous bibliographical knowledge. 



" You are quite right in presenting the volumes 

 of your catalogue to parties who have behaved 

 liberally towards you, i. e. towards the library. 

 Why not advertise it on the wrapper of the Gen- 

 tleman's Magazine, and the Manchester papers ? 

 Few persons are aware of such a catalogue being 

 in print, and still fewer that there is a third 

 volume : reduce the price to as low a sum as 

 possible should you act upon this suggestion.* 



" What is the meaning of your question. What 

 think you of our University ? Is it a project for 

 one in your part of the world ? I must plead 

 ignorance, and beg pardon for not having paid 

 attention to an announcement of such importance. 

 If the Lancashire people really entertain such a 

 project, and act upon it with their characteristic 

 promptitude, energy, and durability, it will be an 

 era in the history of the world ; as I am certain 

 that they will carry human learning to as high a 

 pitch as the human intellect is capable of, just as 

 they have done manufactures and commerce. All 



* Bibliotheca Chethamensis : sive Bibliothecas publica3 

 Mancuniensis ab Humfredo Chetham Armigero fundataa 

 Catalogus exhibens Libros in varias Classes pro varietate 

 argumenti distributus. Quanta potuit fide et diligentia 

 edidit Joannes Radcliffe, A.M., Bibliothecse supra dictse 

 Gustos, ac Collegii ^nei Nasi apud Oxonienses Socius. 



2 voll. 8vo. Mancunii, 1791. Vol. iii. . . . Contexuit, 

 Indices adjecit, atque edidit Gulielmus Parr Greswell, 

 Mancunii, 1826. 



