And what hastou don him and whare
Þat haþ þe kept from al þis care?
Ȝif þou toke þus goode kepe
Whon þou awakest of þi slepe,
Line 328
Hou mony goodnesses he haþ þe do,
And euer is to þe aboute mo,
Þow schuldest him loue souereynli
Ouer al þis world, witterli;
Line 332
Þou schalt him fynde so bisy now
Euermore a-boute þi prow
As non oþur þyng he aboute were
But þe to kepe whil þou art here.
Line 336
Whon þou hast þouȝt in þis wyse,
A-Morwe soone vp arise
And þonke þi lord of al þis goode,
Þat for þe wolde dye on Roode,
Line 340
And sei to him wiþ herte fre
In þis maner þat i sei to þe:
Gracias ago tibi, domine Ihesu criste, qui me [mise|rum peccatorem] [so MS. Simeon] in hac nocte custodi[sti], [pro|texisti], visitasti, sanum saluum & incolimem ad hanc horam peruenire fecisti, & pro alijs vniuersis beneficiis que [MS. qui] michi tua sola bonitate contulisti. Qui viuis & regnas deus per omnia. [The English translation is omitted.]
Sey þus, for hit is to þi by-heue,
Line 343
Boþe on Morwen and at eue.
[vv. 355-362 are not in the Spec.] ÞEnk þenne, I rede, also,
Ar þat þou to þi bed go,
Hou þou hast spendet þi tyme honeste
Whon þou vp ros til þou go to reste;
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And whon þou hast bi-þouȝt þe wel,
Bi-sech god merci eueridel
Of al þe synnes þat þou hast wrouȝt,
And goodnesse þou hast do nouȝt
Line 352
Whil vr lord þe lante miht,
In þat day ne in þat niht.
And loke þou do non oþur dede
Til þou haue þe Comaundet, I rede,
Line 356
Þe and alle oþur goode eke
In to þe hond of god ful meke,
