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What maner thynge is death.
  
  
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What maner thynge is death.

Death is nought els sothly
But departyng bytwene the soule & the body
And as I haue somdele before sayde
This may be called a deathes brayde
And a very remembrynge of mannes lyfe
When the soule parteth from the body with stryfe
As ye may knowe in your thought
That kyndely darckenes is to be felt nought
But where that no maner lyght is se
Proprely there is darckenes in euery degre
So that darckenes is byreyuynge of lyght
So is death of lyfe, when a man is hence twyght
Thus fareth death, that all men dredeth moste
When the lyfe fayleth, they yelde vp the ghoste.