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Quoniam non est in morte qui memor sit tui. In inferno autem quis confitebitur tibi?
For in deeth is noon þat the thenkith on;
Who schal knowlech to the in helle?
Whan bodyes stynke[n] vnder stone,
Where soules been no man can telle;
Therfore, Ihesu, thow felle oure foon,
That al day on vs [y]elpe and [y]helle,
And graunt vs, or we hennes goon,
Þat we be waschen in mercy welle.
Who schal knowlech to the in helle?
Whan bodyes stynke[n] vnder stone,
Where soules been no man can telle;
Therfore, Ihesu, thow felle oure foon,
That al day on vs [y]elpe and [y]helle,
And graunt vs, or we hennes goon,
Þat we be waschen in mercy welle.
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