(4) What tyme þat the pilgrymes had songyne in this wise, hire aungeles wiche þat led them, ansuerid a-nothir song ful swete & ful delicious, as it sewith: Cantus angelorum.
[5 stanzas of 7 lines each, ababb, cc.]
(1)
All-myghti lord, oure blisful lord Ihesu,
Line 1
Thu myroure of the fadier in maieste,
In whom is seyn his myght and his vertue,
The welle of witte & [MS. & of.] wisdaum is in the,
To whom-is [whos.] presence now retourned we be
Line 5
With this pylgrymës which to the we bringe;
To thin honoure ful ioyefully we synge.
Line 7
(2)
Towardës the, ful longe thei haue trauayled;
Line 8
Thu wost thi selfe, how thei han be distressed.
The falsë feend so sorë hem asseyled,
And greuously diseased & oppressed;
But be thi grace, his malice was repressed,
Line 12
And thrughe thy [MS. his.] mercy weel th[e]i be releved,
And hire entent, fully thei han acheved.
Line 14
(3)
What laboure & what anguysch have we had,
Line 15
Sithe þat we took them in oure gouernaunce,
Thu wost Ihesu; and now, [lord,] we be gladde
Of alle þat we have don to thi pleasaunce;
Wherfore thu wilt with reward us auaunce
Line 19
Suche as the list a-bove[n] in thi blisse;
Eternall Ioye, we schul it neuere mysse.
Line 21
(4)
Lo, we presente in-to thin hand a-geyn,
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alle-myghty lord, þat to vs þou hast betake,
