The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  harde þay thretten me in her thoght
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                                  Þat þis sesyn schul dere by boght
                                
                                  He sent his seruentes wyth enuye
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                                  wyth sorow & wo me for to destrye
                                
                                  wel ȝe fundyne hym geynede noght
                                
                                  an-hoþer thyng was in my thoght
                                
                                  wel mor sykyr þe to make
                                
                                  agayns þi fo full of wrake
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                                  heuene & herth in present
                                
                                  To make a charter of feoffament
                                
                                  In swyche a maner be howit to be
                                
                                  Þat I most ȝeuyn my lyf for þe
                                
                                  ffor þou art dede & I am lyf [folio 124:2] 
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                                  I most deyn to ȝeuyn lyf
                                
                                  harde gatys he hauyt gone
                                
                                  In hungure & thryst & many wone
                                
                                  XXX wynter & mo þan two
                                
                                  or þan þis charter wer fully do
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                                  Cowde ye fyndyne no parchemyn
                                
                                  Þat wolde lastyn wyth-vtyn fyn

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Title: The Middle English charters of Christ ...
Author: Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
Canvas: Page 23
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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