(6)
Wel ofte wan hi slepe,
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wit soru hic ham þoit soit;
Wan hi wake and wende,
hi þenke in mi þoit,
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Allas þat man beit wode!
bi-holdit an þe rode,
and silit hic [han broit] [MS. rubd.]
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Hir souelis in to sin,
for any worlde hit [? worldis.] win,
þat was so der hi-boyt.
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2. Hail, Mary! Digby MS. 2, leaf 6, back.
(A ryme-beginning poem. [See Early English Poems and Lives of Saints, in Philol. Soc. Trans. 1872, and note the frequent central rymes here.] 5 stanzas of 8 lines, aaaa abab.)
(1)
Hayl, mari! hic am sori:
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haf pite of me, and merci!
mi leuedi, to þe i cri:
for mi sinnis, dred ham hi,
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wen hi þenke hat hi sal bi,
þat hi haf mis hi-don
in worde, in worke, in þoith, foli:
leuedi, her mi bon!
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(2)
Mi bon þu her, leuedi der,
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þat hic aske wit reuful cher!
þu len me her, ['lefdi der' follows, dotted under as a mistake.] wil hic am fer,
do penanx in mi praier;
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ne let me noth ler, þat þu ber,
at mi nendin day;
þe worlais, þai wil be her,
fort[to] take þair pray.
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