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RELIGIOUS POEMS

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Prayers, Songs, and Orisons to or about God, Christ, and the Virgin

1A.

1. An Orison to the Trinity

1C.

[An Orison to the Trinity]

2.

2. How Sinners Crucify Christ Each Day

3.

3. An ABC Poem on the Passion

4.

4. A Prayer of the Words of Christ on the Cross

5.

5. The Psaltere of Ihesu

6.

6. A Prayer in Memory of the Passion

7.

7. The Wounds of Christ as Remedies Against the Seven Deadly Sins

8.

8. A Second Version MERCY

9.

9. Christ Appeals to Man by the Pains of the Passion

10.

10. A Salutacion of Our Lady

11.

12.

12. Heyle, God ye schilde

13.

13. To His Mistress

15.

15. Translation of Cur Mundus Militat

Precepts and Admonitory Pieces: Signs of Death

Instructive Pieces: Religious, Moral, Ritual

Parts of the Mass in English Rime

Reflective (Exegetical) Poems

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12. Heyle, God ye schilde

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Corpus Christi 405, p. 22.

Heyle god ye schilde / modyr Holy kyng bere milde
Hefne þat in kepyng / haȝ an world wit outyn hondyng
Chaungon hys ryhte Oon kynde sosone michte
þat dede nere synne schuld chyld conseyue vyt ynne
Als sune schene / smyt þour glas wer nis ysenne
Wyt outyn tene Wemles bar Child maydyn clene