[6-text p 189]
My litel childe nowe wil .I. feche þe
Whan þat þe greine. is fro þi tonge ytake
Be nouht agast .I. wil þe nouht for-saake
Line 1859
¶ This Holy monke þis Abbot him mene .I.
His tonge oute cauht and toke awey þe greyne
And he ȝaf vpe þe gost ful softly
And whan þe Abbotte hadde þis wondere seyne
Line 1863
His salte teres strikled doune as reyne [folio 189a]
And gruffe he fel al platte to þe grounde
And still he laie as he had bene ybounde
Line 1866
The [Couent] Eke ley vpon þe pament
Wepeinge and heriinge Cristes moder dere
And after þei rise and forþe been went
And toke aweie þis marter fro his bere
Line 1870
And in a tombe of Marble stones clere
Enclosen þei his lytel body swete
There he is nowe god lene vs for to mete
Line 1873
O ȝonge hewe of Lincolne sleyne also
Wiþ cursed Iewes as it is notable
ffor it nys bot a litel while a-goo
Preye eke for vs we sinful folke vnstable
Line 1877
Þat of his Mercie god so merciable
On vs his grete mercie multiplye
ffor reuerence of his moder Marye
Line 1880
Explicit fabula priorisse.
