SHORT RELIGIOUS POEMS
FROM MS. HARL. 7322 (FIRST TREATISE, OF THE END OF THE 14TH CENTURY, WHICH HAS ENGLISH VERSES MIXED IN THE LATIN PROSE). [The full stops are mostly those of the MS.]
Christ on the Cross.
Ho þat siþ him one þe Rode. [folio 7]
iesus his lemmon.
And his moder bi him stonde
Sorë wepinde, and seynt iohan.
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And his syden istongë sore.
For þe loue of þe, man.
Wel shulde he his sunne forsake.
Wetë terës and eke leten.
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Þat of loue can.
All is Lost on Death.
[See p. 253.]
Memento nouissima tua, quia hec sunt signa mortis, videlicet:—
Whanne þe ffet coldetȝ. [folio 7b]
and þe tunge ffoldetȝ.
And þe shyne sharpetȝ.
And þe þrote Roteletȝ.
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And þe hew ffalewetȝ.
And þe Eyȝen dasewetȝ
