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The Wheatley Manuscript


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I [AN ORISON ON THE PASSION]
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II [A PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN]
  
III [HYMN TO ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST.]
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IV. [THE SEVEN PENITENTIAL PSALMS]
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Quia prospexit de excelso sancto suo; Dominus de celo in terram aspexit.

For he say fro his holy heiȝt,
To erþe oure Lord say out of heuene,
He say man walke vndir þe weiȝt
Of alle þe deedly synnes seuene;
He say man þoru þe feendis sleiȝt
Lygge slepynge in [a] synful sweuene;
Therfore he vouchide saaf to fiȝt
To God and man were oonyd euene.
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