The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark.

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The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark.
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Godstow nunnery.
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London :: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1911 [i.e.1905-11.]
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"The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA2738.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2025.

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[folio 8] Marcius.
iij d Kl With his blode, Seynt dauid! he did me wedde: [1. David, Episc.]
e vj Ns Pray for me now, with sacred Seynt Chedde, [2. Cedda, Episc.]
xj f v Ns That I to hym my couenaunt wole holde
g iiij Ns That for me was both bought and solde.
(10)
xix A iij Ns In þis world here shul not we longe ben;
viij b ij Ns Vn-to a noþer contrey we ben bought.
c Nonas Now pray for us, moost holy virgyn! [7. Perpetua et Felicitas, VV. et MM.]]
xvj d viij Ids That in oure wey no wise we erre nought,
v e vij Ids But al oure werkes both in worde and þought
f vj Ids Be made so plesaunt vnto þi hyȝe spouse
xiij g v Ids That we may ben seruantes in his hyȝe house.
(11)
ij A iiij Ids O holy doctour, blessid pope Gregour! [12. Gregorius, Papa.]
b iij Ids That sendist seynt Austyn in to Englonde,
x c ij Ids In my temptacion I may fynde socour
d Idus. By comfort of þi moost gracyous soonde:
xviij e xvij Kls But ȝit by þi writyng I vndurstonde
vij f xvj Kls That al þis wrecchid lyfe is here ful harde.
g xv Kls Now pray for us, blessid kyng Seynt Edwarde. [18. Edwardus, R. et M.]
(12)
xv A xiiij Kls We ben ful myche dayly in goddes dette;
iiij b xiij Kls Good bisshop Cuthbert, pray þu now for us; [20. Depositio Cuth|berti.]
c xij Kls And þou holy Abbot, good Seynt Benette, [21. Benedictus, Abbas,]
xij d xj Kls Help whyle we stond in þe myre now þus,
j e x Kls That oure good lord now, swete ihesus,
f ix Kls May make us þerof a mytigacion
ix g viij Kls In reuerence of his Annunciacion. [25. Annunciatio Do|minica.]
(13)
A vij Kls O blessid lady! with þis Emanuel [Rubricated in error.] ,
xvij b vj Kls Now for his glorious Resurreccion, [27. Resurrectio Do|minica.]
vj c v Kls Helpe us, with þine angel Gabriel [28. Gabriel, Arch|angel.]
d iiij Kls For his worshipful salutacion,
xiiij e iij Kls And for his mervelous incarnacion
iij f ij Kls Which þat wrought was þorgh þe holigost.
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