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<Text id=AllitMA>
<Title>Alliterative Morte Arthure</Title>
<Edition>Transcribed from The Alliterative Morte Arthure, edited, with an introduction, notes, and glossary by Valerie Krishna</Edition>
<Date>1440</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>AllitMA</locdoc>
<l n=1>How grett glorious Godd, thurgh grace of Hym seluen,</l>
<l n=2>And the precyous prayere of Hys prys Modyr,</l>
<l n=3>Schelde vs fro schamesdede and synfull werkes,</l>
<l n=4>And gyffe vs grace to gye and gouerne vs here,</l>
<l n=5>In this wrechyd werld, thorowe vertous lywynge,</l>
<l n=6>That we may kayre til Hys courte, the kyngdom of Hevyne,</l>
<l n=7>When oure saules schall parte and sundyre fra the body,</l>
<l n=8>Ewyre to belde and to byde in blysse wyth Hym seluen;</l>
<l n=9>And wysse me to werpe owte som worde at this tym</l>
<l n=10>That nothyre voyde be ne vayne, bot wyrchip till Hym selvyn,</l>
<l n=11>Plesande and profitabill to the popule &t;at them heres.</l>
<l n=12>&Y;e that liste has to lyth or luffes for t . . .
