The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  In condicioune ȝif thou be kynde
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                                  And my loue-dedes haue in mynde
                                
                                  ffree to haue and fre to holde
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                                  wiþ alle þe purtenaunce to wolde
                                
                                  Myn Erytage þat is so free
                                
                                  ffor homage ne for feaute
                                
                                  Nomore wolle I aske of the
                                
                                  A foure leued gresse ȝilde thou me
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                                  That oon leef is shrift of herte [folio 47] 
                                
                                  That oþere for synne hert smyrt
                                
                                  The thridde in wille nomore do so
                                
                                  The fourthe drede me euere mor
                                
                                  whanne thise to-gydre sitte
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                                  A trewe loue men clepyn hit
                                
                                  Off þis be nouȝt be-hynde
                                
                                  ffor thorowe þe ȝere thou may hit fynde
                                
                                  Or to seche hit in my wonde
                                
                                  ffor there may trewe love be founde
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                                  ȝif thou be fallen and gretely mys-take
                                
                                  My dede wolle I not for-sake

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Title: The Middle English charters of Christ ...
Author: Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
Canvas: Page 30
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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