Rewardyng hem with blisse for hirë mede
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That don hire devoire as thei may & kan:
Thanked be thu, [o] Ihesu, god and man!
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(7) A lamentacioun of the grene tree, complaynyng of the losyng of hire appill.
[40 stanzas of 7 lines each, ababb, cc.]
(1)
Ofader god, how fers & how cruel, [folio 63]
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In whom the list or wilt, canst þou the make!
Whom wilt thu spare? ne wot I neuere a deel,
Sithe thu thi sone hast to the deth be-take,
That the offended neuere, ne dide wrake,
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Or mystook him to the, or disobeyde,
Ne to non othere dide he harm, or seide.
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(2)
I had ioye éntiere, & also gladnesse, [folio 63b]
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Whan þou be-took him me to clothe & wrappe
In mannës flesch. I wend, in sothfastnesse,
Have had for euere Ioyë be the lappe;
But now hath sorwe caught me with his trappe;
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Mi ioye hath made a permutacioun
With wepyng & eek lamentacioun.
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(3)
O holy gost, þat art alle comfortoure
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Of woful hertës that wofullë be,
And art hire veray helpe & counceyloure,
That [eke] of hey vertue shadówist me
Whan þat the clernesse of thi diuinite
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So shynyng in my feerful gost alight,
Which that me sore agasted & affright,—
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(4)
Whi hast thu me not in thi rémembraunce
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Now at this tymë, right as thu had tho?
O whi is it noght [vn-]to thin pleasaunce
Now for to schadwe me as weel also,
That hid from me myght be my sonës woo?
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Wherof, if þat I may no counfort haue,
ffrom deth-is strok there may no thing me save.
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