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 ...

Hit ys my flessh, lorde, and nat I, That grocheth ayenst thyn hard reddure. Line 464 But, lorde, as I am thy creature, And that ylke god that boughtest me, So my care recouere and cure With Parce michi, domine! Line 468
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Dies mei transierunt, cogitaciones mee dissipate sunt, torquentes cor meum.
My dayes, lorde, passed are, Line 469 And olde I am, I am no faunt. My thoughtes wandre wyde whare, ffor they ben, lorde, full variaunte. Line 472 Myne herte they greuyn wonder sare, ffor euer aboute hym they haunte. Thys maketh me to drowpe and dare That I am lyke a pore penaunte. Line 476 Though I be, lorde, vnsuffisaunte, Any helpe to gete of the, Yet, for I am thy creaunte, Lorde, Parce michi, domine! Line 480
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Noctem verterunt in diem, et rursum post tenebras spero lucem.
The nyght they turned in-to the day, Line 481 ffor they maden me to wake all nyght. I myght nat slepe by no way, Suche thoughtes were in myn hert plyght. Line 484 In derkenesse dymme as I so lay, Yet hoped I after the clere day lyght; But thoughtys me so trobled ay, That I was than a wofull wyght. Line 488 But, lorde, as thow art mekyl of myght, All euyll thoughtes put fro me, And that I of the may haue a syght, Lorde, Parce michi, domine! Line 492
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Si sustinuero, infernus domus mea est; in tenebris straui lectulum meum.
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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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