The Middle English charters of Christ ...

                                
                                  What reste y had oonly for the
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                                  When y hynge naylyd vpon a tree [folio 42a] 
                                
                                  Well may þou know þat y had none
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                                  ffor there y was amonge my foone
                                
                                  And when þou among þy foon art broght
                                
                                  Be redy to suffur wyth all yowre þoght
                                
                                  To stonde at the barre hyt ys full harde
                                
                                  As ye be worthy to take rewarde
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                                  Thou þat for me suffurste wronge
                                
                                  Thou schalt be soþely on my ryȝt honde
                                
                                  And þou that vengest the vpone þy brodur
                                
                                  There stondest þou not but on þat othur
                                
                                  If thou wylt the sothe knowe
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                                  Soche as þou sowest soche schalt þou mowe
                                
                                  I fele me now so full of woo
                                
                                  That owt of þe worlde y muste go
                                
                                  With peynes of dethe harde am y bounde
                                
                                  My soule schall passe here in þys stounde
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                                  Be-holde now man wyth herte & eye
                                
                                  ffor thy loue how y schall dye
                                
                                  I honge on crosse for loue of the
                                
                                  ffor-sake thy synne for loue of me
                                
                                  Mercy aske and amende þe sone
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                                  And y [y is inserted above the line.]  for-yeue þe that ys mysdoone

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Title: The Middle English charters of Christ ...
Author: Spalding, Mary Caroline, 1877-
Canvas: Page 73
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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