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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Pelle et carnibus vestisti me, ossibus et neruis compegisti me.
With flesshe and felle thow hast me cladde, Line 181 With bones and synewes togeder knyt. Lyfe and mercy of the I hadde. To gouerne me thow yaue me wyt. Line 184 To kepe thyne hestes thow me bade, And seydest that I shuld, for hit, In heuen blysse be euer gladde; [folio 11b] And yet I woll nat fro syn flytte, Line 188 But freelte, lord, so me smytte, Vnnethe kepte ys oone for me. Nat for than I pray the yet ffor Parce michi, domine. Line 192
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Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti michi.
Lyfe and mercy thow yaue me ay. Line 193 When I wold thy mercy craue, Thow seydest to me nat ones nay, But glad was when I wold hit haue. Line 196 Thow were redy nyght and day With mercy, lord, me to saue; But I denyed hit alwey, So woodly syn made me to raue. Line 200 I seruyd syn, and was hys knaue. I dyd that was ayenst me. Now, lord, when I am leyde in graue, Than Parce michi, domine. Line 204
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Et visitacio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
Thy vysitacion, lorde, hath kepte Line 205 My spyryte, that ys me withyn. ffor when I wolde to syn haue lepte, Than holy grace made me to blyn. Line 208 And ofte tyme I haue sore wept, The more grace of the to wyn. And thus with wepyng haue I wypt My soule, lord, from dedly synne. Line 212
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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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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., limited,
1904-
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