The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  When I þat ȝyft ȝyf schulde
                                  Line 13 
                                
                                  I dyd as þe lawe wolde
                                
                                  A maydyn I demyd to me
                                  Line 15 
                                
                                  ffor no chalange schuld be
                                
                                  ffol der-worthly sche kepyd me
                                
                                  Tyl I my tyme wold se
                                
                                  XL wekys & XL dayes
                                
                                  To fulfylle þe old lawe
                                  Line 20 
                                
                                  þat mayden was trewe & fre
                                
                                  Sche receyuyd me for þe
                                
                                  ȝyf me þy manhede & þy grace
                                
                                  þus come þat seysyng fyrst in place
                                
                                  When þat seysyng was do [folio 301b] 
                                  Line 25 
                                
                                  ful gret enuy had þy fo
                                
                                  Belsabub & sathanas [Ms. sathamas.] 
                                
                                  Had grete ferly why hyt was
                                
                                  þat asseyed me with foly [Opposite this line in the margin is some writing illegible to the editor.] 
                                
                                  With couytyse & gloteny
                                  Line 30 
                                
                                  Wyle he wyst I was a man
                                
                                  But synne yn me fonde he non [Opposite this line in the margin is some writing illegible to the editor.] 
                                  Line 32

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Title: The Middle English charters of Christ ...
Author: Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
Canvas: Page 21
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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