A Confession of Sins, and a Prayer to Christ. [From a cut-down leaf of a late 14th-century MS., sent by the Rev. J. R. Burton, Headmaster of Kidderminster Grammar School, to the Deputy-Keeper of MSS. at the British Museum, Mr. G. F. Warner, who kindly showd it to me, and got Mr. Burton's leave for me to copy and print it.]
Swete ihesu crist, to þe,
Copable wrecche ich ȝelde me,
Of sennes þat ich habbe ydo
Yn al my lyue hider-to,
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In pride, yn wraþþe, in vyl enuye,
Yn glotonye, yn lecherye,
Yn sleuþe, lord, yn þy seruyse,
And of þis wordles coueytise:
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To ofte ich habbe, yn myne lyue,
Ysenȝed wit my wittes fyue,
Wit eren yhered, wit eȝen syȝt,
Wit senfol speche dey & nyȝt,
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Wit cleppinges, wit kessenge also,
Wit hondes yhandled, wit fet ygwo,
Wit herte senfolliche yþoȝt,
Wit al my body euele y wroȝt;
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And of al my [grete] folye,
Mercy, lord, mercy, ich crye!
Al-þaȝ ich senȝede euere,
Lord, ich for-soc þe neuere.
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Ȝef þou me none med[e]
Efter my senful dede, [. . . . .]
