Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...

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¶ Ihesu com fro heuene blisse, And tok flesch in a mayden fre, Lowely, and most [of] mekenesse, Hyd vnder flesch [[MS. flesch fleschly]] oure fraternite; Line 60 Now wold [he] take my soule to his, ffor he suffred pyne and pouerte. Ȝit sumwhat y myȝte acorde to þis; But why shulde my soule hate me? Line 64
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¶ Whan Ihesu and my soule be met, Sone my werkis þey aspiȝe; Here wit on me fast þey whet: 'In shame, and skorne, and vylenye, Line 68 To folwe þy fleschly lustes let, Or ellis boþe ȝe shal dyȝe.' Þus am y vnder and ouer set. She spettes on me, and doþ me fyȝe. Line 72
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¶ Wiþ me, my soule he doþ þrete, And makeþ my soule me to hate. Wiþ plesande wordis, he hoteþ here gete In heuene blisse, a quenes astate. Line 76 Þan comeþ she hom in wraþþe-ful hete, Bedeþ here lette, boþe erly and late, Casteþ me doun, and doþ me bete, And tredeþ on me, and makeþ debate. Line 80
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¶ Thanne renneþ she aȝen as she were wood; To Ihesu, þy sone, she doþ flyȝe. He fedeþ here wiþ his flesch and blood, But þanne here þouȝtes mownten hyȝe. Line 84 She biddiþ me water and bred to food; As mortkyn forsaken, she let me liȝe. She holdeþ me euyll, and no þyng good, But a stynkyng carayne in here eyȝe. Line 88
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Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...
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