John Hurleston, Prayer for alms, and for protection(?) of royal Edward —
twelve fragmentary lines
Author(s): John Hurleston
Subjects: almsgiving; Edward VI; Edward IV; Edward V; patronage, pleas for
Versification: —
eight-line —
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1.Source: Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Eng. 1054, f. 149
v
First Lines:…great aduertence
[ ] and geue ys almes
[ ] and in their
presence
[ ] haue their prayse…
Last Lines:…father full of mercie
[ ]th euery thinge secrete
[ ]
Edwarde the openlye
[ ] the lif euerlastynge
Note: Added by hand of the sixteenth century to blank leaf at end of
Hardynge’s Chronicle, folio now partly torn away, with loss of
beginnings of lines.