For clerkis with clere corounes,
Þe mete of mercy haue in mynde;
Þe godspelleres with benysouns,
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To fest þei bid euery freende,
As well beggers as barouns;
To goddis borde þei bid hem bende
¶ Ihesus holt vp his ende,
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To defende vs with a fowle (egle) in flyȝt,
A dere oxe luk haþe diȝt.
Mark a lyoun fell in fiȝt,
Mathew a man ful kende.
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¶ Þe Egle is frikest fowle in flye,
Ouer all fowles to wawe hys wenge;
In þis ensaumple Iohan say eslye,
As he slombrid in slepynge,
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In goddis godhed he say full hyȝe,
Þe heyȝtes of hys hyȝe kynge.
With-oute any . . . . . [[The rest is lacking.]]
