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A certein tresour þat sche þider ladde
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And soþ to sayn vitaile gret plente
They haue hir ȝeuen and cloþes eek sche hadde
And forþ sche sayleþ to þe salte see
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O my Constaunce ful of benignite
O Emperoures ȝonge doughter deere
he þat is Lord of fortun be þi steere
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Sche blesseþ hir and with ful pitous voys
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Vnto þe croys of crist þan seyde sche
O cler o welful auter holy croys
Rood of þe lambes blood ful of pite
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That wissh þe world fro old iniquite
Me fro þe feend and fro his clowes keepe
That day þat I schal drenchen in þe deepe
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Victorious tre proteccioun of trewe
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That oonly were worthy for to bere
That kyng of heuen with his woundes newe [folio 77a]
The white lamb þat hurt was with a spere
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Flemer of feendes out of him and here /
On which þy lymes feithfully extenden
Me kepe and ȝif me might my lyf to menden
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Ȝeres and dayes flette þis creature
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Thurghout þe see of Grece in to þe strayte
Of Marrok as it was hir aduenture /
O many a sory mele may sche bayte
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After hir deth ful / ofte may sche wayte
Or þat þe wilde wawe wol hir dryue
Vnto þe place þer as sche schal arryue
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Men mighten aske why sche was nouȝt slayn
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Ek at þe fest. who might hir body saue
And I answered that demaunde agayn
who saued Daniel / in thorrible Caue
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