By my trothe, ye.
Clennes cumth in and Con. steylyth away.
Not so, my friends, here me speake. Mum!
Corage.
Where is Concupiscence becum?
Clennes.
My presens hath put her to flyght!
Where Clennes doth in place apeere,
Ther is Concupiscence gone quighte.
This is not signed by Redford; it is only conjecturally his.
The other works of Redford's in the MS. book (additional MSS. 15,233) appear to be separate poems, with titles (some apparently inserted in his reprint by Halliwell Phillips). The numbers to the right refer to the pages in Halliwell Phillips's reprint.
| 1. | Lamentation of boys learning the prick song. (14 stanzas of 4 lines each) | 62 |
| 2. | "Nolo Mortem peccatoris: hœc sunt verba Salvatoris." (23 stanzas of six lines each) | 68 |
| 3. | "Long have I been a singing man." (8 stanzas of six lines each) | 80 |
| 4. | "Will and Power." (3 stanzas of seven lines each) | 86 |
| 5. | "The Pleasure of Godliness." Besides some irregular opening lines. (22 stanzas of six lines each) | 92 |
| 6. | "The goodness of all God's gifts." (11 stanzas of seven lines each) | 97 |
| 7. | "The sinfulness of man." (8 stanzas of eight lines each) | 100 |
Reducible, "he will be reducible" (M[37],b), reclaimable.