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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.280–1.
[1]
f. 109
Haue on god in worship take not his name in veyne halow þin halyday worshyp þi fadir and modir sle no man doo no lechery do no thefte bere no fals wytnes desire noght þi neghtbures wyff desire noght þi neghtbures thyng.
‘Þe x commowndementes of god’. Simple list of the Ten Commandments.
Other texts: see [8] below.
[2]
f. 109
Pryde enuy wrath couetyse gloteny slewth lechery.
‘Þe vij dedly synnes’. Simple list of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Other texts: see [8] below. See Ee.4.37 [6].
[3]
f. 109
Fede þe hungry gyf drynke to þe thrysty clothe þe naked herber þe howsles vysett þe seeke delyuyr prisoners and bery þe pour whan þey be deed.
‘Þe vij bodyly dedes of mercy’. Simple list of the Seven Works of Bodily Mercy.
Other texts: see [8] below.
[4]
f. 109
Teche hem þat cannot gyf hem consel þat askes chastyse þi sugett comforth þe sory forgyf hem þat trespase to þe haue rewth on þe synner pray for þin enmy.
‘Þe vij gostly dedes of mercy’. Simple list of the Seven Works of Spiritual Mercy. Wells Rev. 7:2517 [51].
Other texts: IMEP 16, indexing BodL Laud misc. 23 [9], lists several different versions of this text; the version given here seems closest to that indexed in IMEP 8, Oxf. Trinity Col 86 [6]. See also [8] below.
[5]
f. 109
Fayth hop charyte righwysnesse wysdam strenght and mesur.
‘Þe vij princypal vertues’. Simple list of the Seven Principal Virtues.
Other texts: see [8] below.
[6]
f. 109
Syght heryng tastyng smellyng handylyng goyng.
‘Þe v bodyly wyttys’. Simple list of the Five Bodily Wits.
Other texts: see [8] below.
[7]
f. 109
Mynde vndirstandyng wylle reson ymaginacion.
‘Þe v goostly wyttis.’ Simple list of the Five Spiritual Wits.
Other texts: see [8] below.
[8]
f. 109
Mynde of þe kyndnes of god and of þi last ende undirstandyng of his benefetes and his lore wylle to wyrschyp hym in thoght and dede wiþowtyn any werynes reson to rewle þi dedys both inward and owtward wiþowt any blyndnes ymaginacion of medfull warkes of dredfull dedys of joy and of payn pater noster aue crede thys viij are euery man and woman hold and bownde to know and kun and to to tech oþer att her power.
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