Octosyllabic Prayer to Christ University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/THEODORE.Xpist.Octo Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Octosyllabic Prayer to Christ
Christum peto, Christum preco Christo reddo corde laeto gratis, homo, imo fono, uti latro tetro metro pendens ligno petit regno fore, uiso paradiso in †clalisso† in abysso hoste truso ac deluso. Sic et ego quantum queo manus Deo leuo meo, quo cum †reuo† fruar eo. †Gignans† chio patri pio fletus riuo quando uiuo. Sarcem turno pauli culmo uti uideo stirpem limeo