The Middle English charters of Christ ...

HARL. 237.

Carta humane redempcionis [folio 100ab]

Witnes wele al þat bene here & And efter sal be leue and dere þat I ihesus of Naȝaret fore luf of mane has sufferde deth . . . . . Line 5 . . . . . I haue gyue and made a grante to al þat askes it repentant heuyns blis withoutyn endynge als longe as I am þer kynge Line 10 (kepe I no more nore oþer thinge) Line a Kepe I no more fore al my smerte Bod luf man of þin hert Bod þat þou be in charite and luf þi nyȝtbur as I do þe Þis is þe rent þou sal gife me Line 15 as to þe chef lord of þe ffe If ony man kane say nowe Þat I ne diede for manys prow Raþer þan man sulde be forlorne ȝit walde I eft be al to torne Line 20 Witnes þe day þat turne in-to nyȝt and þe sone withdraw his lyȝt Witnes þe erth þat þen gon qwake And þe stane þat al to b[rake] Witnes þe vail þat þan gon ryfe Line 25 and men þat rais fra ded to lyfe Witnes my moder and sent Iohne And othir þat þer were . . . . . In testimonying of þe whilk thinge Mi awne sel her-to I hynge Line 30 And fore more sekirnes Þe wonde in my side þe seil it is Þis was gifyn at caluarye dayt þe first day of þe gret Mercy quod I lang Line 34

Notes

• This line is cancelled, evidently by mistake.
• Extra line. Doubtless the one the scribe meant to cross out instead of the one above it.
• Incomplete.
• The scribe first wrote gret here and cancelled it, putting first in above with a caret below.
• See description of this MS. at p. xxvi for the order in which the lines occur.