A Wycliffite expansion of The Lay Folk’s Catechism, by John de
Gaytryge, likewise in nonrhyming alliterative verse
Note: For a shorter version in
The Lay Folks’ Catechism, see
671; the rhyming paraphrase of the Ten
Commandments occurs separately: see
5843.
Title(s): Lay Folk’s Catechism
Subjects: instruction, religious; religous instruction
Versification: —
alliteration
2.Source: York, York Minster Library XVI.L.12, ff. 1
ra-50
ra
First Lines:Alle maner of men schulden holde goddis biddingis
for wiþouten
holding of hem may no man be saued…
Last Lines:…þanne shulden men bygynne to werre on enemyes next hem
as
meede & neede & kynde techiþ cristene men
Note: Portions on Ten Commandments through the Spiritual Works of
Mercy.
Attributed Title: here begynneþ þe ten comaundementis (f. 1ra)
Editions: Simmons, Thomas Frederick, and Henry Edward Nolloth, eds.
“The Lay Folks’ Catechism.”
EETS
o.s. 118 (1901); repr. 1987: 3-99.