The Middle English charters of Christ ...

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The Middle English charters of Christ ...
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Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
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[Baltimore,: J. H. Furst company, printers,
1914]
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English poetry
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"The Middle English charters of Christ ..." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFW1075.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.

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ASHMOLE 189.

Wette ye All that bene here [folio 109] And here-Aftre that shal be lefe & dere That I Ihesus of Naȝareth ffor the loue of man haue suffred deth A-pone A crosse wyth woundys fyve [folio 109b] Line 5 Whyle þat I was in yerth man A-lyve That I haue yeve & made A graunte To All tho þat wyll Aske it repentaunte Heuene blys wythoute yendeynge As longe I Am in heuene reynynge Line 10 Kepe I no more for All my smerte But tru loue of þe man with All thyne herte And þat þou be in full charite And loue thy neighbour As I do the Thys is the rent þat þou shalt yelde vnto me Line 15 As to þe cheffe lorde of þe fee And yf Any mane sey vnto þe nowe That I haue not dyed for manis prowe Rather þen man shuld be for-lorne Yet yeft-sones wold I be All to-torne Line 20 In wittenesse of þe daye þat turned to nyght And of the sone þat wythdrewe hys lyght In wyttenesse of þe yerth þat þen dyd quake And of þe harde stones þat All to-brake In wyttenesse of þe viele þat þen dyd reve Line 25 And of men þat rose from deth to lyue In wyttenesse of mary my moder & of seynt Iohne And of odre þat ther were meny one In wyttenesse of the whych thynge Myne owne selfe therto I hynge [folio 110] Line 30 And All-so for þe more sekernesse The wounde in my syde þe seale it ys Thys was graunted At Caluarye The fyrste daye of þe grete mercy xiiij M yeres of pardoun Line 35 wyth-oute popes twelve Eche of them .vj. yeres by themselfe Patriarkes Archebysshopys & bysshopys Also Mekell pardoun haue graunted therto The some of þe indulgence rekene or þou gois Line 40 Is xxtivj M. yeres xxxti yeres & vj days
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