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Jesu Christ have mercy on me
A Prayer to Jesus — three couplets
Subjects: Christ, prayers to; prayers, to Christ
Versification: — two-line — aa



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral Library 91 [Robert Thornton MS], f. 213v
Transcription:
Ihesu criste haue mercy one me
Als þu erte kynge of mageste
And forgiffe me my synnes all
Þat I hafe donne bathe grete and small
And brynge me if it be thi will
Till heuene to wonne ay with þe styll Ame
Note: Follows 6265 and precedes ‘A sermon þat Dan John Gaytrye made’.
Facsimiles:
Brewer, Derek Stanley, and A. E. B. Owen. “Introduction.” The Thornton Manuscript (Lincoln Cathedral MS. 91). London: Scolar Press, 1975.
Editions:
Perry, George G., ed. Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse from R. Thornton’s MS. EETS o.s. 26 (1867); repr. 1973: orig. ed. 9l.
Horstmann, Carl, ed. Yorkshire Writers. 2 vols. London, Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895-96: 1.368.
Patterson, Frank A. The Middle English Penitential Lyric. Columbia University Studies in English. New York: Columbia Press, 1911: 82.
Comper, Frances M. M. The Life of Richard Rolle, Together with an Edition of his English Lyrics. London: J. M. Dent, 1928, 1933; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929: 295.