The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  nakyd I stode A-monge myne foone
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                                  for other soker had I none
                                
                                  Redy þey werne me to dysese
                                
                                  But neuyr one þere me to please
                                
                                  they madene þere skourges grete
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                                  wherwyth my body schulde be bete
                                
                                  And thow I wolde haue pleynned me
                                
                                  Þere schulde none socure haue [After socure, A has been cancelled, and after haue h has been cancelled.]  bene
                                
                                  ful sore a-ferde for-sothe I was
                                
                                  quan they ledde me forth so gret A pace
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                                  Towarde A peler they ledde me swythe
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                                  And þere A-boundene And betyne I was be-lyue
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                                  And waschyne wyth myn owene blood
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                                  Þat one þe erthe A-boute colde it stode
                                
                                  And so ij stoode boundene al þat nyghte
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                                  Tyl one þe morowe þat it was daye lyghte
                                
                                  Strayned wel herde vppone A tre
                                
                                  As parchemente myghte to be
                                
                                  heryth nowe And ȝe schul wetyne
                                
                                  howe thys charture was wretyne

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Title: The Middle English charters of Christ ...
Author: Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
Canvas: Page 58
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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