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CONFESSION by CHARLES D'ORLEANS

Poem Explanation

First Line: MY GHOSTLY FADIR [OR, FADER, FATHER], I ME CONFESS
Last Line: FIRST TO GOD AND THEN TO YOU.
Gostly fader, I me confesse,
First to God and then to you,

That at a window -- wot ye how? --
I stale a cosse of grete sweteness,
Which don was out aviseness;
But hit is doon not undoon now.
My gostly fader, I me confesse,
First to God and then to you.

But I restore it shall doubtless
Agein, if so be that I mow;
And that to God I make a vow
And elles I axe foryefness.
y gostly fader, I me confesse,
First to God and then to you.


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