But also for vs, yn þys world; [vs here yn þe werlde.]
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Be a man yn sykenes, or yn prysoun,
weyferyng, or yn temptacyun,
Or yn any ouþer trauayle,
Þe sacrament wyl vs auayle;
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hyt wyl delyuer vs out of peyne, [folio 70a]
Ȝyf oure beleuë be certeyne;
And þat was weyl shewed yn dede
Yn Ingland, so seyþ seynt Bede;
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Yn hys bokys wrytyn þyr ys [A tale.]
A feyre myrácle of þe messe.
[Bede's Tale of Jumna and Tumna; or, How an Abbot's Mass|singing made the Fetters fall off a Knight in Prison.]
what tyme seynt Bede was man lyuand,
were many kyngës yn þys land;
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Betwyxë tweyn was grete batayle,
For whych þyng y telle þys merueyle;
þe toon hyght Edfryde of þe norþe cuntre,
þe toþer of Lyndëseye was he:
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Edfryde had grete seygnourye, [seynurrye.]
Seynt Audre housbonde, of Ely. [husb. of St. A. of E.; l. 10689.]
þys batayle was, [was O, om. H.] þurgh here boþe [boþe her.] assent,
Besyde a watyr, men calle Trent:
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Syre Edfrydes broþer hyȝt Elfwynne,
He was slayn þe [Þat.] batayle ynne;
On boþe partyys, ne was none
So feyre a knyȝt of flesshe and bone,
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Ne so doȝty was of armes;
Þarfore seynt Bede pleyneþ hys harmys.
An noþer knȝyt also was felte [eke was felde.] dowun
Almoste dede, and fyl yn swoun:
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Þe namë of þys ȝungë knyȝt,
'Iumna,' seyþ seynt Bede, he hyȝt.
whan þys Iumna had long leyn,
He couerd, and sette hym vp aȝeyn,
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