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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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34

Domine, ante te omne desiderium meum, & gemitus meus a te non [est] absconditus.

Lorde, alle my desire is the byforne,
My sorow is noght fro the hydde;
For, if my soule schuld be forlorne,
What were I better than beest or brydde?
Therfore, Ihesu, of Iewis boorne,
God and man in erthe kydde,
Lat neuer that tresoure be to-toorne,
That thow were fore soo sore betydde.
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