The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  Hard he threted me in his thoght
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                                  þat seseyng suld be dere boght
                                
                                  He sent his sergaunce with mais|troy
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                                  With wa & sorow me to destroy
                                
                                  And [Ms. Ad with a final curl. Cf. line 4.]  wele he fand him gayned noght
                                
                                  Ane other help was in my thoght
                                
                                  Mare syker þe to make
                                
                                  Ogayne þi fa full of wrake
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                                  Heuen & erth in present
                                
                                  To mak a charter of feffement
                                
                                  In slyke a maner bus it be
                                
                                  þat me bus gyf my lyf for þe
                                
                                  ffor þou ert ded & I am lyfe
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                                  I most dy to gyf þe lyfe
                                
                                  Many a way haue I to ga
                                
                                  In hunger & threst & cald all swa
                                
                                  Thretty wynter & mare þan two
                                
                                  Or my ded war I-do
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                                  Ne myght I fynd na parchemyne
                                
                                  ffor to last with-outen fyne

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Title: The Middle English charters of Christ ...
Author: Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
Canvas: Page 22
Publication: [Baltimore,: J. H. Furst company, printers,; 1914]
Subject terms: English poetry

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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