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 ...

Of all diseases yet rekeuere, And se my lorde in hys turete, With whom I hope to dwelle euer. Line 620 Though I be synfull, lorde, take me neuer In any thyng that may displese the. Thy blysse, late me haue for euer, Thorough Parce michi, domine! Line 624
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Quare de vulua eduxisti me, qui vtinam con|sumptus essem, ne oculus me videret?
lord, why leddest thow so me Line 625 A, Oute of the wombe that I was in? Wold god I had consumed be With-in myn oune moders skynne, Line 628 That the eye, with whyche I se, Had nat seyn nomore ne mynne, That I myght in that degre Neuer haue wyste what had be synne, Line 632 ffor syn maketh me from the to twynne, That of nought madest thow me. Thy mercy, lord, make me to wynne With Parce michi, domine! Line 636
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ffuissem quasi non essem, de vtero translatus ad tumulum.
And, wold god, that I be hadde Line 637 As a thyng that neuer was; ffor all with synne I am be-stadde, And euery day I do trespas. Line 640 No wonder though I be vngladde, And though I synge often allas; ffor pure woo I wexed madde, Nere goddys mercy my solas. Line 644 Lo, lorde, lo, I am ryght as A wytles man withouten the; But as thow of plente mercy has, [folio 15a] So Parce michi, domine! Line 648
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Nunquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur breui?
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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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