The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  but as trewe loue bad me do
                                  Line 93 
                                
                                  Myne owne skynne I toke þereto
                                
                                  And whanne I hade ȝit so I-do
                                  Line 95 
                                
                                  wul fewe frendes had I þo
                                
                                  to gete me frendes I ȝaf gret mede
                                
                                  as doth þe pore þat hath gret nede
                                
                                  But for to ȝeue the I hade no more
                                
                                  for thi sowle þat was for-lorne
                                  Line 100 
                                
                                  þanne my-selfe for to ȝeue the
                                
                                  Þat for the dyed vppone A tre
                                
                                  vppone A thursday A sopyr I made
                                
                                  Both frend & foo to make heme glade
                                
                                  of [After of in this line there stands in the MS. what looks like a cancelled h.]  bred And wyne the sacramente
                                  Line 105 
                                
                                  for euyr to be youre testament [In the MS. this line was omitted from its place and was written after line 108.] 
                                
                                  the wyche is myne fesche & myne bloode
                                
                                  To tho þat here levyne vith mylde mode [folio 44b] 
                                
                                  And tho þat deyne oute of charyte
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                  Line 110 
                                
                                  here wyl I iiije wordys teche
                                
                                  to the pupyl I bydde ȝou heme preche
                                
                                  And þat þey haue heme euire in mende
                                
                                  here mende in heuene they schul fynde
                                
                                  these wordys towchene þe Sacrament
                                  Line 115 
                                
                                  Þat mend sundyrly resceyuene verament

                                  Line 116

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Title: The Middle English charters of Christ ...
Author: Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
Canvas: Page 54
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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