He me send, or þat [omitted.] i deye,
Sorow of hert and ter of ye,
Cler and [Clene.] clensud þat i be,
Or i to my graue tee;
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So þat i mow [mote.] on domus day
To þe [thi.] dom cum with-out dedli [omitted.] fray
And wend to [to þe.] blis in [wiþ.] cumpanie,
Þer [MS. þei.] os [þat.] men schul [schal.] neuer dye,
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But dwelle in ioy wit oure lord riȝt [wiþ ouȝte driȝt, read oure Driȝt.] ,
Þer is euer day and neuer niȝt,
Þat last schal with-outen ende;
Now iesu crist [us] [ous.] þidur send [
MS. 11,748 adds two lines:—
Iesu, þat deidest one þe rode tree,Graunte ous þis for charite. Amen.
Then follows at once:—
These armes of crist bothe god and manSeint peter discriued ham.What man þes armes ouer-ȝaithAnd for hure synnes sory and schriue beethTo seye hit a twelfe monthe eche day wiþ good chereHe haþ sixe thowsaund and seuen hundred and fiue and fifty ȝereAnd half a ȝere and dayes threThis is y-grauntyd for to beAnd for the vernicle haue he mayFourty dayes eueryche dayAnd for the pytye with good chereGrauntyd is sextene thowsaund ȝereAnd sixe [an] thirty dayes þer-toFor to segge euery day A pater noster and v. Aue maria wiþ o Crede.
] . amen.
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