winkin de word ¶ The virtue of the mass. YE folk all which have devotion To here mass first do your busy cure With all your inward contemplation As a mirror presenting in figure The moral meaning of our ghostly armure When a priest with ministers more and lass arrayeth him by record of scripture The same time when he shall go to mass first see that your eyen be very contemplative And calleth unto mind with hole affection How the mass here in this present life Of ghostly gladness is thief direction To hove a memory all of Christ's passion Our bame/ our treacle health/ our medicine Again ghostly gladness our restoration As doctors remember in their doctrine Of discretion if ye list to consider As ye be bounty of very troth and right You to preserve that ye do not slyder Of all that day for lack of ghostly light first every morrow or phoebus shine bright Let pale aurora conduct you and dress Unto the church of christ to have a sight For chief preservative against all ghostly sickness entering the church with great humility To here mass first at your uprising dispose yourself kneeling on your knee For to be there first at his beginning And fro the time first of his ravishing Depart not till that he hath do To all your works it shall be great furthering To abide the end of (In principio. Keep you from noise and jangeling importune The house of god is ordained for prayer With sight and scelence sadly doth continue In your default that men no noise here Gaze not about demure of look and cheer As I said erst till the priest have do Your good you shall increase in fere So ye abide the end of (In principio. In sacrifice of the old law With the heed men offered up the tail For a good beginning men should not withdraw Till it were ended Moses gave counsel A work begun is of more avail If a good end accord well thereto And for increase of your ghostly travail Abide the end of (In principio. ¶ judica me deus. The holy man the 〈◊〉 celestine Like as I find written in his life Of direct devotion & grace which is divine By god inspyrate ymagynatyfe Too enpresse the power of the fiends mortal strife Against their malice for to make resistance Bad priests should with heart contemplative Before the altar in Christ's high presence Say first this psalm with look direct to heaven judica me deus) with hole heart enter Their couscyence purge fro the sins seven Or they presume to go to the awtere The same psalm set in the sawtere For a memorial of the captivity How Iherusalem stood in great danger At Babylon that froward fell city This psalm complaineth as Lyre doth record Their long abiding within Babylon Songs of their exile might not accord With the canticles of juda and Zion Of hope despaired their comfort was near gone Like as this psalm showeth in figure But god by grace restored them everichone Home to Iherusalem by record of scripture Take of this psalm the morality Before rehearsed and on the other side Be diligent with all humility On the mass following for to abide Have this in custom and god shall the guide All that day to govern thy passage In what peril so ever thou go or ride The to defend fro trouble and damage And to give folk the more occasion To have this psalm in the more reverence And here the mass with more devotion As they be bound of troth and conscience I am full set to do my diligence After my simpleness this little psalm to translate With humble support of your patience Where as default is put the fault in lydgate. ¶ judica me deus. O thou my lord most mighty and eterne O gracious Ihesu of mercy and pity deem thou my quarrel me also dyscrene Among mine enemies or I encumbered be My dreadful enemies that been in number three The fiend/ the flesh/ brygantes most mortal The false world full of duplycyte O Ihesu help or they give me a fall. Quia tu es deus fortitudo mea. For thou art lord only of breed and length Of right considered I dare right well express Thou art my support and my ghostly strength Why wilt thou lopde suffer my simpleness For to proceed in sorrow and distress While mine enemies proudly me assail O blissful Ihesu of merciful goodness Grant of thy grace that they may not prevail. ¶ Emitte lucem tuam. Send down the light lord send down the rightwiseness The light of thy grace for consolation Thy rightwiseness my passage for to dress By perfit prayer by contemplation To test in quiet lord send thy grace down Me to convey that there be none obstacle Toward the high hill of zion Within thy holy celestial habitacle ¶ Et introibo ad altar. And I shall enter lord to thine altar Made strong in spirit grounded in sadness For as me seemeth courage face and cheer rejoiced been with spiritual gladness My youth again renewed to his fresshenes Which of old custom in vices was appalled Till thine experye gracious goodness Hath my last end again to mercy called ¶ Confitebitur tibi in eythara. I shall be shriven and confessed unto the In thilk harp which for our altar good Was set and wrested at calvary on a tree When all thy sinews were strained on a road Mary and johan under the cross stood With weeping eyen swooned oft-time Till the repast of our eternal food On easter morrow rose up before prime ¶ Quare tristis es anima mea. O thou my soul how mayst thou heavy be Sith christ hath bought the with his passion What cause hast thou for to trouble me Thy lord was slain for thy redemption Gave he not alway to thy refection On shyrethursdaye in form of wine and breed His own blessed body in consolation And on good friday was not he for the deed ¶ Speraindeo Trust in god and he right well certain Void of despair and ambyguyte For unto him I shall be shriven again My ghostly joy again all adversity Which of my cheer is the felicity While he my succour is alas whom should I dread Again all worldly perils and infernal pouste He spared not his blood for me to bleed. ¶ Interpretatio miss. Upon his heed an amity first he layeth Which is a sign a token and a figure Outward showing grounded on the faith The largeable by record of scripture Is righteousness perpetual to endure The long girdle cleanness and chastity Round on the arm the favon doth assure All soberness knit with humility Thestole also stretching far on length Is of doctors the aungelyke doctrine Mowgre heretics to stand in their strength From Christ's law never to decline Chesuble above with charity to shine As bright as phoebus in his mid spear Holdeth ever his cour●e in the right line To friend and foo stretch out his beams clear perfit priest made strong with armure Before the altar as Christ's champion Shall stand up right make no discomfiture All our three enemies to vanquish & bear down The flesh/ the world/ sathan the fell dragon first to begin or we further pass With contrite heart and low confession And so to proceed devoutly to the mass. To god above set holy his desire So that his charity shine clear and bright Before the gospel needs he must have fire Torch/ tapre/ or else wax candle light Token that christ who consider a right Is very brightness of light which is eterne To chase away the darkness of night In perfit life to guide us and govern ¶ Officium miss. Beginning the office by triple rehearse called Of custom used with the repetition Tokeneth the fire brenning in the entrayled Of old prophets by inspiration Which had a faithful fervent inspection Of Christ's coming by all their prophecies Of his birth and of his incarnation For which the office is rehearsed thrice Kyrie and christ in numbers thrice three Words of greek plainly determine Kyrie for mercy calling to the trinity With ghostly grace his people to enlumine The number is token orders nine Our orisons and prayers to present To cryst Ihesu most gracious and benign Goodly accept the fine of our intent. ¶ Gloria in excelsis. Gloria in excelsis next in order song Token of unity and of perfit pease At Christ's birth heard in latin tongue High in the air by angels doubtless Present shepherds which of the increases Toward Bethlehem holding a bright star By grace inspired they pur themself in prees To see thilk child which stint should our were This triple peace in Bethlehem first began When christ was borne of grace it died fall first peace between god and man between god and angels and also nations all Ground of this peace lay in an ox's stall Poorly lapped lord of the high empire Let us eachone unto his mercy call Send him peace that heartily peace desire ¶ Orationes. For all christian devoutly for to pray The priest at mass shall say an orison For living people that they may or they die Have repentance shrift and comunyon Souls in pain release and pardon Grace through all nations love and charity patience to the folks in prison Help to all needy that live in poverty ¶ Epistola. The pistle next is figure of sand When christ first sent as the book maketh mention His disciples and made them take on hand To preach his name in every region Peter/ Andrew/ james/ johan he sent down Their pistles/ by whom virtue 'gan cease All the synagogues domination And Christ's faith by virtue 'gan increase. The pistle is a very token and figure As say doctors of law and prophecy Of Christ's coming by evident scripture As patriarchs before died specify And johan baptist the son of zachary As a bedell told how Emanuel Before remembered of old isaiah How on that name should grow the gospel And semblably so as the morrow grey Is a messenger of phoebus uprising And bringeth tidings of the glad day So the pistle by prophecy of reading To us declareth most gracious tiding Of the gospel record for that party Mathewe the evangelist affirmeth by writing Of Ihesu cryst all the genelogye ¶ Gradale. After the the epistle followeth the grail Token of ascending up fro 'gree to gre In virtue upward procading stondemele The ground first at humility raiseth by grace faith hope and charity With perfit coming and humble patience With compassion and fraternity In Christ's passion set hole their confidence ¶ Alleluya. Alleluya in order next following Tokeneth prayer for our salvation thrice rehearsed for our laud and praising With devout heart and hold affection Unto christ direct that suffered passion Our sovereign lord most perfit and good The trayte the sequence for short conclusion Song in his laud that for us shed his blood ¶ evangelium. The gospel beginneth with token of Tau The book first crossed and after the forehead Jesus' our shield our strength in all virtue On good friday clad in purple reed A crown of thorns set sharply on his heed Four evangelists remember it in substance Us to defend from all worldly dread In Christ's gospel stand hole our chevisance ¶ Credo. The gospel red a creed after he saith Solemn days for a remembrance Of twelve articles longing to our faith Which we be bound to believe in creance Rather to die than any manner variance In any point were in our heart found For faith with work to god doth great pleasance Let us therefore believe as we be bound ¶ Offertorium. By interpretation who wisely can advert The offertory eye made of offering As when a man offereth to god his hereto richest oblacytion reckoned by writing And for Melchysedeche both priest and king Gave breed and wine to Abraham for victory For which oblation in figure remembering In each day at mass is said an offertory Token that Ihesu our saviour and our lord Again our feebleness and our impotence Rest on the altar called god's board His holy blood relics of most reverence We to receive them with devout diligence In form of breed and wyme for a memory figure that the lamb chief of Innocence Offered his body grounded of the offertory ¶ Ptefatio. next the secret after the offertory The preface followeth before the sacrament Angels rejoice with laud honour and glory From heavenly court by grace they are sent And at the mass they abide and be present All our prayers devoutly to report To him that sitteth above the firmament Souls in pain they refresh and comfort ¶ Sanctus. The old prophet holy isaiah Saw in heaven a crown of dignity Where Seraphin song with every hierarchy Sanctus/ sacntus/ before the trinity After the preface rehearsed times three With voice melodious and after that hosanna With in excelsis before thy majesty Before the sacring of our ghostly manna. ¶ Memento. Of mementoos at mass there betwayne The first remembreth of folk that been alive The second is for them that suffer pain Which by the mass be relieved by their live Out of torment as clerks can dyscryne Singing of masses and Christ's passion And remembrance of his wounds five May most avail to their remission ¶ Elevatio sacramenti. With all your might and your best intent awaiteth after the consecration At the lifting up of the holy sacrament Saith Ihesu mercy with hole affection Or else say some other perfit orison As ye have in custom devoutly Or else say this little contemplation Which is written here in order by and by Hail Ihesu our health our ghostly food Hail blessed lord here in form of breed hail for mankind offered on the road For our redemption with thy blood made reed Stonge to the heart with a spear heed Now gracious Ihesu for thy wounds five Grant of thy mercy before I be deed Clean housel & shrift while I am a live O lamb up offered for man in sacrifice Nailed to the cross of merciful meekness Whose blood down trailed in most piteous wise To scour the rust of all my wickedness Of all my synnnes to the I me confess Now lord mercy put not in delay But grant me Ihesu of thine high goodness Meek shrift and housel before mine ending day O blessed fruit borne of a pure virgin Which with thy passion boughtest me so dear For mary's sake thine eeres down incline Here mine orison by mean of her prayer The for to please teach me the manner Void of all virtue save only of thy grace Grant in the form lord as I see the here The to receive I may have life and space My lord my maker my saviour and my king When I was lost thou were my redemptor Support and succour here in this living Against all enemies my sovereign protector My chief comfort of all worldly labour Grant me lord confession and repentance Or I of death pass the sharp shower The to receive unto my pleasance Let thy mother lord be present in this need That A may claim of mercy more than of right Mine heritage for which thou didst bleed And grant me Ihesu of thy might Each day of the to have a sight For ghostly gladness in to my lives end And in spirit to make mine heart light The to receive or Ihens wend O paschal lamb in isaiah figured Our spiritual manna breed contemplative Sent down from heaven which we be assured Against all fone strongest confortatyfe Tokened in paradise upon the tree of life Which should have restored Adam unto his place Grant me Ihesu for a restoratyfe The to receive or Ihens pass Thou art in figure o blessed Ihesu Against Satan mine heavenly champion My joshua my prince of most virtue That hinge seven kings upon Gaboan ghostly Samson that strangled the lion And slew the dradon with all his heeds seven Grant or I die christ for thy passion I may receive this breed descended down fro heaven As I said erst of angels thou art food Repast unto pilgrims in their pilgrimage celestial breed to children that been good figured in Ysaac thirty winter of age To caluarye when thou took thy pass O Ihesu mercy grant or I be deed And or decrepitus put me in dotage To have a repast of thy celestial breed My ghostly trust/ charity/ hope/ and faith Mine advertence my mind and my memory All of accord my soul unto the saith Have on me mercy o sovereign king of glory Which sitteth highest in evenly cosystory Ihesu let mercy surmount thy rigour That thy passion allay my purgatory first by receiving of the my saviour ¶ Pater noster. For to excite and move your courage To devout prayers of hole affection The pater noster unto all manner aeges Is most according & most sovereign of renown Jesus' himself made this orison And taught his disciples how they should pray Muse not thereon make no comparison To his doctrine all christian must obey Short and compendious up stretching to heaven Unto the height celestial mansions Each clause told divided in to seven most notable gracious petitions Clerks all concluded in their reasons Above all prayers it hath the sovereignty So it be said in your affections Of ghostly love and perfit charity Without charity availeth no alms To cloche naked ne hungry folk to feed visit the seek nor prisoners in distress Harborowed the poor nor none alms deed If charity faileth your journey may not speed Nor all these virtues if troth be well sought Your pater noster nor your creed Where charity availeth little or nought Beware ye priests when ye mass sing That love and charity be not far absent O ghostly people before make reckoning That your conscience and you be at one assent Or ye receive that holy sacrament Enuey and rancour that they be set aside And perfit charity be aye with you present That grace to godward may be our sovereign guide Pater noster if it be said a right It doth exclude all imperfection So that grace hold the torch light That charity by true affection And fervent love have the domination From his place all hatred to remove That false envy have no possession When this prayer is said in his order dew ¶ Agnus. Of agnus dei at mass be said three The first twain beseeching for mercy The third prayeth for peace and unity Again all perils mortal and worldly christ as a lamb was offered on the cross grudged not but suffered patiently To make redemption reform our loss This lamb remembered in salamon's songs Called Cantycorum most amorous of delight In reformation of our courageous wrong Sometime was song this lamb both reed & white Reed and rubefyed by full great despite His blessed body with blood so was distrained The aungelyke witness could find no respite With bloody drops his face was so berayed This paschal lamb on Easter day he rose Called both a lamb and a lion A lamb for offering which lay three days close Low in the earth for our salvation But at his mighty resurrection He named was the lion of juda For which the church rejoicing that season singeth for gladness oft-times hallelujah This Agnus det brought with him peas To all the world at his nativity Grace gladness of virtue great encreas For which the people of love and high degree Kiss the par a token of unity Which kissing plainly doth signify How peace is cause of all felicity Of lolkes governed by prudent policy ¶ Post common. At the post common the priest doth him remove On the right side saith Dns vobiscom five times he doth the people salue During the mass as made is mention figure the day of his resurrection five times soothly he did appear To his disciples for consolation And first of all to his mother dear Salue sancta parens he to his mother said Which was to her rejoicing sovereign Which these words when christ Ihesu abraid Upon whose uprist Mary magdalyne With weeping eyen for constraint of her pain Abode the rising of her lord Ihesu With other maryes the gospel telleth twain Brought ointments most sovereign of virtue Poetes say that love hath no law Things well expert in these ladies three Which work all night and rose or the day daw Of woman heed and of femynyte Desire love and womanly pity Caus'd them their journey for to take early in the morrow the sepulchre for to see Of christ Ihesu all night they died wake Let us as truly in our inward intent As early rise mass for to here With such devotion as these ladies went With perfit charity and love as enter To sick their lord and their spouse dear Take ensample let us do no lass By mortal meaning follow we the manner early each morrow for to here mass After the priest saith Ite missa est He granteth the people a manner of licence To depart and he toward the east lift up his hands with devout reverence Prayeth for all that were in presence To have their part of all that he hath do Taking their leave devoutly with silence The end abiding of In principio Departing fro mass with peace and unity figured was sometime in Exodo When the children of israhel fro the country Returned again maugre king Pharaoh The reed see departed was in two A prognostic in their pilgrimage That Christ's mass should us deliver so From sathanas might out of all servage And eke as clerks in books rehearse Concluding according all in one How that Cyrus sometime king of Perce To prisoners that were in Babylone Gave licence and freedom for to gone Iherusalem again for to edify Right as the freedom of us everichone Renewed was by coming of Messye As in desert children of israhel Fed with manna abode there forty year We Christ's people following the gospel Let by grace be of right good cheer Our ghostly food at meet and at soupere Through this desert all peril for to pass Best refection to glad all our cheer Every morrow early to here mass Lord of thy grace while that we be here In this desert of worldly wilderness With life according our mass for to here That peas/ charity/ compassion/ & cleanness May so continue & shine in their brightness With wholesome hand and also alms deed To inspire the rich to part of their richesse With poor folk in heaven shall be their meed Hearing of mass giveth a great reward ghostly health again all sickness And medicine record of saint bernard To people Innocent that plain for weakness To faith refreshing in weariness And to folk that gone in pilgrimage It maketh them strong set them in sickness graciously to explete their viage The mighty man it maketh more strong Recomforteth the seek in his languor giveth patience to them that suffer wrong The labourer it beareth up in his labour To thoughtful people refreshing and succour Gracious counsel to folk disconsolate sustaineth the feeble conveyeth the conqueror Maketh merchants their fairs fortunate It maketh men more meek to their correction In ghoosty love fervent and amorous It giveth sweetness and delectation To all people that been gracious True obedience and folk religious Grace at departing & faith saint johan to borrow Defence of all enemies malicious To all that here mass devoutly in the morrow Hearing of mass doth passing great avail At need at mischief folk it doth relieve Causeth saint Nycholas to give good counsel And saint julyan good hostel at eve To behold saint Crystofer none enemy shall him grieve And saint Loy your journey shall preserve Horse ne carriage that day shall not mischief Mass herd before who doth these saints serve parting fro mass beginning your journey Call saint Myghell you to fortify For sudden haste and good prosperity And for good tiding saint Gabryell shall you gye And raphael by record of Thobye Shall be your leech and your medicine Mass heard you hearts doth apply These observance to keep each day or ye dine Albon for England/ saint Denyse for France blessed king Edmonde for royal governail Thomas of Caunterbury for his meek sufferance At westminster saint Edward shall not fail That none enemy shall hurt nor prevail But saint George shall make you freely to pass Hold up your banner in peace and in battle Each day when ye devoutly here mass ¶ Scdm Augustinum in Fasciculus morum. Thus is the mass our spear and eke our shield Our mighty pavyse our sword and our defence Our mighty castle our shyltron in the field Our strongest bolkwerke again all violence For who so ever abide with reverence To In principio the conclusion of the mass Grace shall guide him and conduit his presence Again all his fone of high estate or lass That day a man devoutly here mass While he is present he shall not wax old In going thither his steps more and lass Be or angels numbered and I told His venyall sins reckoned many fold Of negligence and oaths that be light They be forgiven for grace passeth gold And all that time appeareth not his sight Hearing of mass letteth no viage As it hath well be proved in certain Prayers at mass doth greatest advantage With Christ's passion to souls in their pain The mass also doth other things twain To soul and body it doth consolation If he pass that day by death sudden It standeth for his housel and communion Of meet and drink received at the table Mass heard before be more comfortatyfe In double wise plainly this is no fable To increase of virtue called vegetatyfe By remembrance so as the tree of life Should have preserved Adam fro sickness So the sacrament against all ghostly strife Reneweth a man that day he heareth mess So as manna was restoratyfe To children of Israel again bodily travail Let us well trust in our ymagynatyfe How moche the sight may help and prevail Of the sacrament unpossible for to fail Us to sustain in bodily gladness Again ghostly fone more than plate or mail Namely that day that we devoutly here mess Mass heard before the wind is not contrary To mariners that day in their sailing And all thing that day that is necessary God sendeth to prevail that day in their feeding Women also that gone on traveyling Folk expert have found thereof a proof That have herd mass in the morning Were delivered and felt no mischief So as thine heed hath a precellence Above all members in comparison So christ Ihesu of magnificence Through his divine disposition Set the mass for short conclusion As on shyrethursdaye the gospel ye may read For a prerogative about every orison To help all them that to him call at need Some folk affirm in their opinion And say that they have red it in story A mass is equal to Christ's passion To help souls out of purgatory Of all virtues greatest dyrectory Which conveyeth and leadeth man by grace Hearing of mass enprynte in thy memore To kneel or stand and change not thy place All these things poised in a balance Let folk on the morrow early up rise first of intent to do god pleasance In their hearts wisely advertise No time is lost during that service For which let no man plainly be in doubt But god shall dispose in many wise To increase all thing that they go about ¶ Here endeth the virtues of the mass. 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