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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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75

Similis factus sum pellicano solitudinis; factus sum sicut nicticorax in domicilio.

I was maad liyk the pellycan,
That vpon wylde[r]nesse hym-silf sleeþ,
So redily to the roode I ran,
For mannys soule to suffre deeþ;
And, as þe nyȝt-crowe in hir hous can
By nyȝt[e] se to holte and heeþ,
So purposide I to saue man,
For hym I ȝaf my goost and breeþ.
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