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¶ Vp on his beere / ay lyth this Innocent [folio 212b]
Biforn the chief Auter / whil the masse laste
And after that the Abbot with his Couent
Han sped hem / for to buryen hym ful faste [
// de puero qui cantauit/ de gloriosa virgine // de maria quicquid sciuit puer cantans enutriuit; Maternam inopiam
// hunc Iudeus nequam strauit domo sua quem humauit; Diram per Inuidiam
// Mater querens hunc vocauit hic in terra recantauit; Solita preconia
// Puer liber mox exiuit Mortis reos lex puniuit; Iudeos &c.
] Line 1828 And whan they / holy water/ on hym caste Yet spak this child / whan spreynd was holy water And song O alma redemptoris mater Line 1831
¶ This Abbot which þat was an holy man
As monkes ben / or ellis oghten be
This yonge child / to coniure he bigan
And seyde / o deere child I halsen thee
Line 1835
In vertu / of the holy Trinitee
Tel me / what is thy cause for to synge
Sith þat thy throte is kit to my semynge
Line 1838
¶ My throte is kit vn to my nekke boon
Seyde this child / and as by wey of kynde
I sholde haue dyed / ye longe tyme agoon
But Ihesu crist as ye in bokes fynde
Line 1842
Wol þat his glorie laste / and be in mynde
And for the worshipe / of his moder deere
Yet may I synge / O alma / loude and clere
Line 1845
¶ This welle of mercy / Cristes moder swete
I loued alwey / as after my konnynge
And whan þat I my lyf sholde forlete
To me she cam / and bad me for to synge
Line 1849
This Antheme / verraily in my deiynge
As ye han herd / and whan þat I had songe
Me thoughte / she leyde a greyn vp on my tonge
Line 1852
¶ Wherfore I synge / and synge moot certeyn
In honour / of that blisful mayden free
Til fro my tonge / of taken is the greyn
And after that thus seyde she to me
Line 1856
