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¶ Ȝif þou chalenge my werk, and bere me doun,
Me that am werk of þy hande,
And þou in consayl helpe ȝe moun
To wykked men here synnes withstande,
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Wiþ repentaunce and sorwful [folio 125a] soun
May launce hem from þe deuelys bande:
To ȝerde of loue y moste me boun;
Lord, me chastice wiþ þat wande.
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¶ Wheþer þyn eyȝen ben fleschlye,
Or þou seest as man shal see?
Or þy dayes so sone syȝe,
As other mennys dayes be?
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Or þy ȝerys riȝt so hye,
As mennys tymes in here degre?—
For þou art god shal neuere dyȝe,
For sorwe and deþ shal from the fle—
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¶ That þou seche my wykkednesse,
And ransake my synne,
And wyte I haue noȝt doun mysse,
Bote hert and soule clene withynne.
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Soþes þer no man nesse
May skape þyn hond, and from the twynne,
Bote repentaunce and mercy kesse.
Þat now ben frendis, lord, make hem kynne.
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Lectio tertia: Manus tue feceruntme.
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¶ Thy hand made me man of resoun, [[MS. þe soun]]
And shope me al in compas,
And sodeynly þou cast me doun,
ffor knew y noȝt what þou was.
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Of me men sample take mowen,
Be ware lest þay folwe my tras.
I hadde lordship in feld and toun,
Now on a donghille is my pas.
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