XXXIV.
¶ In water and blood cristenyng was wrouȝt,
Holy writ witnessiþ it well,
And in þe well of worþi þouȝt,
Man is cristened to soule hele;
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Þe blood þat all þe world haþ bouȝt,
A digne cristenyng he gan me dele;
Cryst in cristenynge forȝat me nouȝt,
Hy[s] fressche blood whan I gan fele:
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¶ Mayde modir and wyue!
Crystis blood ȝaf me bapteme,
Bystreke I was with rede streme,
Whan Iesu bled vpon a beme, [folio 129b]
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Of cipresse and Olyue.
XXXV.
¶ Iesu seyde to Nichodemus
But a barn be twies born,
Whan domesday schal blowe his bemys,
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He schulde lye as man lorn,
First bore of wombe where rewþe remys,
Siþ with font synne is schorn:
And I was cros to mannys quemys,
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I baar þe fruyt þou bere aforn,
¶ For þi beryng alone;
But I had born hym efte,
Fro riche rest man had be refte
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And in a lore logge lefte,
Ay to grucche and grone.
XXXVI.
¶ Þou were crowned heuene queen,
For þe birþen þat þou bere,
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Þi garlond is of gracious greene,
Of hell Emperesse and heuene Empere:
