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Man thus on Rood I hang for thee / Forsake thy sin for love of me
‘How Crist spekes tyll synfull man of his gret mercy’ — six 6-line stanzas
Note: For similar lines see 2199, 4275, and 6135; compare also 201.
Title(s): ‘How Crist spekes tyll synfull man of his gret mercy’
Subjects: Christ, appeal of, to man
Versification: — six-line — aabccb


Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson poet. 175 (SC 14667), f. 93va
First Lines:
Man þus on rode I hymg for þe
ffor sake þi syn for luf of me…
Last Lines:
…Man þe same I will do þe
þer for lete at my lare
Attributed Title: Now crist spekes tyll synfull man of his gret mercy (f. 93va)
Editions:
Brown, Carleton Fairchild, ed. Religious Lyrics of the XIV Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1924. 2nd ed., rev.: G. V. Smithers, Oxford, 1952: 60-1.
2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Don. C.13, f. 165vb-166ra
First Lines:
lo hou I hinge on rode for þe
forsake þi syn for loue of me…
Last Lines:
…þat with syn was forlayn
& als of oþir ma
Note: 5 stanzas.
3.Source: London, British Library Cotton Galba E.IX, ff. 51va2-51vb
First Lines:
Man þus on rode I hing for þe
forsake þi sin for luf of me…
Last Lines:
…Man þe same I will do þe
þarfore lete at my lare
Note: Latin rubric above first line, by scribe: ‘In cruce sum pro te . qui peccas desine pro me / desine do neman . dic culpam corrige intam’.
Editions:
Hall, Joseph. “Short Pieces from MS Cotton Galba E.ix.” Englische Studien 21 (1895): 201-9: 208-9.
Horstmann, Carl, ed. Yorkshire Writers. 2 vols. London, Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895-96: 2.457.