I fledde from thee by manie sinnes – Scholarly Edition

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I fledde from thee by manie sinnes1This poem is a fragment of “Amor Ordinem Nescit,” lines 277-288.
          And thow didst follow me,
As if my ruin would have caus’d
          some detriment to thee.
 
How can this chuse but wounde my heart
          when I remember it,
And euer serue to humble me
          while at thy feet I sitte?2“And she had a sister called Mary, who sitting also at the Lord’s feet, heard his word” (Luke 10:39, Douay-Rheims Bible).
 
From whence my lorde, my God and all
          permitte me not to rise
Till I do loue thee as thow would’st
          The which doth all comprise.






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Source: Baker, p. 248; see Bodleian, p. 10