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| The Deposition: detail from the Passion and Resurrection sequence [late fourteenth century], All Saints Pavement, York |
At þe tyme of none iesu gun cry;
he wytte his saul to his fadyr, [Eli].
A knyght smat him to þe hert, had he no mercy;
pe sone be-gane to wax myrk qwen iesu gun dy.
lord out of þi syd ran a ful fayre flud
As clere as well water our rannson bi þi blode.
(From the York Hours of the Cross, in The Lay Folks Mass Book (London: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 1968), 82-87.)
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