The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  Yf thou loue me haue this in mynde
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                                  And to thy enemy loke þou be kynde
                                
                                  Ensample þou myȝt se by me
                                
                                  ffor loue of my foes y honge on tre
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                                  Be mercyfull y bydd the
                                
                                  And on thyne enemyes haue pite
                                
                                  And as y do by thyne do þou by myne
                                
                                  y-sauyd yf þou wolt be fro hell pyne
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                                  Yf þou do as y the telle
                                  Line a 
                                
                                  Y warant the fro the paynys of hell [These lines occur in this MS. only.] 
                                  Line b 
                                
                                  And that witnysseth mo than one [folio 236b] 
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                                  Mark luke mathu and Iohne
                                
                                  And namely my moder swete
                                
                                  that for me the blody teris did lete
                                
                                  There sche stode vndir the rode
                                
                                  he sey my body all in blode
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                                  ffram the foote vp to the hedd
                                
                                  there was noght ellis but blod reede
                                
                                  No word to me myght sche speke
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                                  Hit semyd hir hert to breke
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                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  ffor sorow of hir y made a crye
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                                  And seyde Eloy lamazabatany [See p. xxxiv for mark of ownership at the end of this folio.] 
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Title: The Middle English charters of Christ ...
Author: Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
Canvas: Page 68
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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