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65. Make Me Loathe Earthly Likings

Good god, make me for þi love & þi desyre
ley doune þe birden of fleshly myre
And erthly lykingis to lothe:
My wille of þe flesh haue ladiship,
Reson of my wille haue lordship,
& þi grace be lorde vppon them boþe;
And so throw me withinne & withowte
to be soget ondir þi wille alle abowte
to alle þat is reson Right & soþe.