¶ Prologe
O lord oure lord þin name how merueilous
Is in þis large word y-spredde quod she
ffor nought only þyn laud precious
Parfourned is by men of dignite
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But by þe mouth of children þin bounte
Parformed is for on oure brest soukynge
Som tyme schewen þey þin heryynge
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¶ Wherfore in laude as I can best or may
Of þe and of þe white lyly flour
Which þat þe bar and is a mayde alwey
To telle a story I wol don my labour
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Nought þat I may encrece hire honour
ffor sche hireself is honour and þerto roote /
Of bounte next hire sone of soules boote
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¶ O mooder mayde O mayde moder fre
O busch vnbrent brennyng in moyses sight
That rauyscheþ doun fro þe deytele
þurgh þin humbles þe gost þat in þe alight
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Of whos vertu whan he in þin herte alight
Conceyued was þe fadres sapience
Help me to telle it in þin reuerence
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¶ Lady þin bounte and þin magnificence
þin vertu and þin gret humilite
Ther may no tonge expresse in no science
ffor som tyme lady er men preye to þe
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þou gost biforn and þin benignite
And getest vs to light þurgh þin prayere
To gyden vs vnto þin sone so clere [folio 212a]
