N-Town Cycle, Play 40

[Pentecost]

Modo de die Pentecostes. Apostoli dica[n]t genuflectentes; Spiritus Sanctus descendat super eos, et cetera.

  1  PETRUS. Honowre,
  2  ANDREAS wurchipp,
  3  JACOBUS MAJOR and reverens,
  4  JOHANNES. Glorye,
  5  PHILIPPUS grace,
  6  JACOBUS MINOR and goodnes,
  7  THOMAS Dygnité,
  8  BARTHOLOMEUS vertu,
  9  SYMON and excellence,
 10  MATHEUS Bewté, -
 11  JUDAS blyssynge,
 12  MATHEAS and bryghtnes
 13  PETRUS. Be to țat Lord [of] heye wurthynes,
 14  ANDREAS Whiche hath performyd țat he vs hyght,
 15  JACOBUS MAJOR. And vs enbawmyd with suche swetnes,

 16  JOHANNES. Whiche to dyscrye fer passyth oure myght.
 17  PHILIPPUS This we all wel kenne.
 18  JACOBUS MINOR Now, gracyous Lord Jesu,
 19  THOMAS Conferme us in ți vertu,
 20  BARTHOLOMEUS And graunt us grace evyr it to sew.
 21  SYMON Sey we all togedyr, amen. Amen.

Et omnes osculant terram.

 22  PRIMUS JUDEUS. Now, felawys, take hede, for be my trewthe,
 23  3ondyr syttyth a dronkyn felachepp.
 24  SECUNDUS JUDEUS. To don hem good, it were grett ruthe.
 25  TERCIUS JUDEUS. 3a, I prey God 3eve hem all shenschepp!
 26  PRIMUS JUDEUS. Muste in here brayn so sclyly doth creppe
 27  țat ței cheteryn and chateryn as they jays were.
 28  SECUNDUS JUDEUS. 3a, were they ony wel browth asclepe,
 29  It wore almes to țe revere hem to bere,
 30  There hem to baptyze!
 31  PRIMUS JUDEUS. țat were, as thynkyth me,
 32  A jentyl sporte to se;
 33  A bettyr game to be
 34  Cowde no man devyse.

 35  PETRUS. Serys, alas, what do 3e mene?
 36  Why scorne 3e now țus Goddys grace?
 37  It is nothynge as 3e do wene:
 38  țer is no drunke man in țis place.
 39  Wherefore ryght grett is 3owre trespace.
 40  But, syrys, lyst what it doth sygnyfye:
 41  Fulfyllyd is now to mannys solace
 42  Of Johel țe pregnaunt prophecye,
 43  In whiche țat he
 44  That 3e han seyn
 45  In wourdys pleyn
 46  Declaryth serteyn.
 47  Now blyssyd God be.

 48  Amen.