The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  Anon sche felle downe in swownyng
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                                  There be-fore me at my dying
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                                  The peynes þat y suffurde were full sore
                                
                                  But for my modur þey were þe more
                                
                                  When y leyde myn hedd here & þere
                                
                                  my modur chaunged all hur chere
                                
                                  ffull fayne sche wolde haue holpen me
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                                  But for þe yewes hyt myght not be
                                
                                  Peynes þat sche suffurde were full smert
                                
                                  The swerde of sorowe perysched hur hert
                                
                                  When to seynt Iohn y hur be-toke
                                
                                  Sche caste on me a drery loke
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                                  As thowe y had hur all for-sake
                                
                                  And anothur sone y had be-take
                                
                                  But or þys chartur þus wreten was
                                
                                  Well ofte sche seyde allas allas
                                
                                  Vpon my schouldur y leyde my hedd
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                                  Whan y drowe faste vn-to my dedd
                                
                                  ffor so bare y was of worldly goode
                                
                                  When y schulde dye vpon the rode
                                
                                  That y ne hadd where-of to take
                                
                                  Reste to myn hedd for to make
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                                  Pore and ryche for to haue in mynde
                                
                                  Whan þou in þe worlde no reste may fynde

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Title: The Middle English charters of Christ ...
Author: Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
Canvas: Page 71
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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