[6-text p 187]
Ȝaue in her þouht in wiþ a litel space
þat in þat place after her sonne sche cried
Thare he was cast in a putte be side
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¶ O grete god þat parfourmed þin laude
Be mouþe of Innocence Lo here þi myht
This gemme of chastite þis emeraude
And eke of Marterdom þe ruby briht
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Þere he wiþ þrote ycorue leie vpriht
He Alma redemptoris gan to singe
So longe þat al þe place gan to ringe
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¶ The cristen folke þat þoruhe þe strete wente
In Camyne to wonderne of þis þinge
And hastely þei for þe prouost sente
He cam anone wiþ-outen any taryinge
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And herieþ crist þat is heuen kinge
And eke his moder honoure of mankinde
And after þe Iewes lete he binde
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¶ This childe wiþ pitous lamentacioune
Vp taken singeinge his songe al weye
And wiþ honoure of grete processioune
Thei Carien him to þe next Abbeye
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His modere swoneynge be þe bere laye
Vnneþ myhte þe peple þat was þere
This newe rachel bringe fro his bere
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¶ Wiþ torment and wiþ schamful deþe ilkone
This prouost doþe þes Iewes for to sterue
That of þis morder wist and þat anane
He nolde none suche cursednesse obsirue.
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Euel schal haue þat yuel wil deserue [folio 188b]
There-fore wiþ wilde hors he did him drawe
And after þat he hinge him be þe lawe
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