The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  hard he þrette me in his þought
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                                  That seynge scholde be dere bought
                                
                                  he sente his seriantes wiþ enuye
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                                  wiþ woo and sorow me to destroye
                                
                                  wele he founde him gayned nought
                                
                                  another help was in my tought
                                
                                  More seker the to make
                                
                                  agayn thi foo ful of wrake
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                                  heuene and Erthe in present
                                
                                  To make a chartre of feffement
                                
                                  In which manere be-houethe to be
                                
                                  That I moste ȝeue my lyf for the
                                
                                  ffor thou art dede thorough rief
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                                  I moste deye to ȝeue þe lyf
                                
                                  Many a way I haue I-goo
                                
                                  In hunger therst chele and woo
                                
                                  Thratty ȝere and more þanne [Ms. þanme.]  too
                                
                                  Or my dede were fully doo
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                                  Ne myght I fynde no parchemyn
                                
                                  ffor to laste wiþ-oute fyn

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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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