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Gyff all the feelde wythe champyonne blodde bee stente [118],
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Brand gives "A charme to staunch blood: Jesus that was in Bethleem born, and baptyzed was in the flumen Jordane, as stente the water at hys comyng, so stente the blood of thys man N. thy servvaunt, thorw the virtu of thy holy Name [+] Jesu [+] & of thy Cosyn swete Sent Jon.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten
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The following "Charme to Stanch Blood" is taken from a manuscript of the fifteenth century: "Jesus, that was in Bethlehem born, and baptyzed was in the flumen Jordane; as stente the water at hys comyng so stente the blood of this man N. thy serwaunt, throw the virtu of thy holy name,
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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