[6-text p 529]
(8)
¶ Assembled is in þi magnificence
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Wiþ mercy goodnesse and with such pite
þat þou art þe sonne of excellence
Nouȝt only helpest hem þat prayen þe
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But ofte tyme of þin benignite
fful frely er þat men þin helpe beseche
þou gost byforn and art here lyfes leche
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(9)
¶ Now help þou meke and blisful faire mayde
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Me flemyd wrecche in þis desert of galle
Thenk on þe womman Canane þat sayde
That whelpes eten some of þe crommes alle
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þat from here lordes table ben y-falle
And þough þat I þe vnworþy sone of eue
be synful ȝit accepte my byleeue
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(10)
And for þat feiþ is deed wiþoute werkes
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So for to worchen ȝif me witte and space
þat I be quyt from place þat most derk is
O þou þat art so fair and so ful of grace
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Be myn aduocate in so heih a place
Ther as wiþouten ende is longe Osanna
Thou cristes moder and doughter of Anna
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(11)
And of þin light my soule kepe in prison
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That troubled is by þe contagioun
[of my body / & also bi the wighte [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]]
of erthely lust / & fals affeccion]
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O heuene o refute O saluacion [folio 171b]
Of hem þat ben in sorwe and in destresse /
· Now help for vnto my werk I wol me dresse /
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