THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS.

PSALMS.

24. 7-8. Vndo gowre gates biliue, bid I, ...
pe king of blis cumes in gow by....

24.7.

98.1-2.

What es he?...

He es Lord of grete state,

In batayle mekill of might.

G. N. 110. 1383, 1387, 1391-1392.

3e princes, I bid ze opin wide
3oure endles gates here,

pe king of blis now in shall glide.

G. N. 108. 1347-1349.

A new sang till oure Lord ge make,..
He þat has bene wirkand
Meruailes omang vs here,

He has saue his right hand
To him and his powere.

Ful mekely has he schewed his might,
Omang al Cristen men,

He has techid ilka werdly wight

His rightwisnes to ken.

107.16. Brasen gates he brac for ay,

And iren barres ful small.
pe gates in sunder gede,
And iren bandes al brast.

G. N. 118. 1519-1528.

G. N. 108. 1363-1364.

G. N. 110. 1403-1404.

118.24. Pat God has made, þis es þe day,

Mak ioy parin we sall.

118.26.1 Blisced be he pat cumes,

In þe name of God.

G. N. 108. 1361-1362. als he hight,

G. N. 118. 1531-1532.

Here the verse from Ps. seems to have been in the author's

mind rather than that from Matt.

ISAIAH.

11.1-2. Of pe rotes of lesse
A wand sall spring,

And a flowre faire and fre....
And on þat flowre... sal rest
With al gudenes, þe Haly Gast.

G. N. 132. 1749-1754.

40.3. See Matthew 3. 3.

MATTHEW.

3.3. A voice criand in wildernes.

3. 16-17. pe Haly Gaste on him gan lend In a doune liknes pan;

G. N. 100. 1229.

pe voice of pe fader doun was send,
And þus to speke bigan,

pis es my sun withowten end,

Herknis him ilk man',

In whilk sun me likes best. G. N. 100. 1239-1245.

9.6. Tyte take þi bed and go.

G. N. 54.484.

21. 9. (Cf. Psalms 118. 26). Osanna, was paire sang,

27.15-17, 21-22.

Blisced be he þat cumes now
In Goddes name vs omang.
G. N. 28. 94-96.

At pasch of Iews pe custom was
Ane of preson to slake,
Withowten dome to lat him pas,
For þat high fest sake.

A prison þai had, hight Barabas,
þat many murthers gan make;
Wheper him or Ihesu, Pilat ass,
pai will fro presoun take.
pai cried fast, Baraban!

1 From Matt. 17. 5, Mark 9. 7.

27.24-25.

And Pilat askes þam all,
What sall Ihesus do pan?

pai say, Cros him pou sall. G. N. 56.517-528.
Water wighty askes he,

And wesse his hend by skill.
I am giltles, als ze sall se,
pis rightwis blode to spill.
pan cried pe Iews all,...

His blode on vs might fall. G. N. 60. 581-587.

27.27-29. pase knightes kene laid hand him on,
And led whare he suld dy;
His clathes of him þai don,..
A purpure mantell pareopon,
And hid his eghen hastily.1
pare pai defouled him als a fon,
And King of Iews gan cry.

27.37. See Luke 23.38.

27.42. pe Iews pan þat þare stode

Said, God sun if þou be,

Cum doun now fro þat rode,
And we sall trow in þe.

G. N. 60. 601-62.611.

G. N. 62. 621-624.

27.48. Aysell and gall raised on a rede, Within a spounge þai hide,

Vntill his mowth at drink þai bede.

27.51-52. pe stanes in sunder brac,

G. N. 62.615-617.

pe erth trembild and quaked,...
Ded men er risen out of þaire graue.

G. N. 68. 705-709.

1 From Luke 22. 64.

27.57-58. To Pilat come a knyght,

And Ihesu cors fast gan he craue..
Pilat granted þat bone

Till Ioseph of Aramathy,

And he fra cros ful sone
Toke done pat blisced body.

He wand þat cors with gude entent
In sendell new and clene,

And layd it in his monument
Whare1 nane byfore had bene.

G. N. 68. 714-724.

28. 2, 5-7. pe erth trembled and al toschoke, And angell doun was sent,

We dared for drede, and durst noght luke.... pe mekill stane þat lay...

pat angell put oway.

And pareopon him sett.

He bad wemen be noght affraid,...

For he es resen, þarfore bese payd,

Cumes nere pe suth to se!

pis es pe place whare he was laid,
Go biddes his appostles be,

He sal be sene, als he þam said,
pis day in Galile.

G. N. 72. 797-74. 812.

23.43.

LUKE.

Said þe Iews vntill,

I find in him none ill.

Fader, forgif þis men paire dede.

G. N. 42. 301-304.

A bill obouen his heuid he fest,
þat ilka man myght rede,
Latin, Ebrew, and Gru.
His titill was pusgate,
pis ilk man was Ihesu,
King of Iews, þus he wrate.

(On his left side hanged Iestas).
And said to him bi name,

G. N. 62. 619.

If pou be God, hethin lat vs pas,

Saue þe and vs fro schame!

(And on his right hand hanged Dismas,

His fere fast gan he blame),
Ouer litill, God pou dredes,

We haue pis for oure gilt,
And he for his gude dedes
Full wrangwisly es spilt.

Vnto Ihesu þan gan he pray,...

When pou cumes in þi regne for ay

Mend me with pi mercyse.

And Ihesus sone to him gan say,
I hete pe forto be pis day
With me in paradyse.
At vnderon was þis done,
Omang þam wex it mirk,
pe son wex dim ful sone,
pe vail rafe in þe kirk.

pis same day, son, be pou
With me in paradis.

G. N. 62, 631-64. 660.

sall

G. N. 122. 1579-1580.