The siege of Jerusalem

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& ȝo a mayde vnmarred þat neuer man touched Line 101 As clene as clef þer cristalle sprynges Line 102 Without hosebondes helpe saue þe holy goste Line 103 A kyng & a knaue child ȝo conceyued at ere Line 104

Line 104 A touche of þe trinyte touched hir hadde Line 105 Þre persones in o place preued to gedres Line 106 Eche grayn is o god & o god bot alle Line 107 & alle þre ben bot one as eldres vs tellen Line 108 Þe first is þe fader þat fourmed was neuer Line 109 Þe secunde is þe sone of his sede growyn Line 110 Þe þridde in heuen myd hem is þe holy goste Line 111 Neþer merked ne made bot mene fram hem passyþ Line 112 Alle ben þey endeles & euer of o myȝt Line 113 & weren endeles euer [er] þe world was bygonne Line 114 As sone was þe sone as þe self fader Line 115 Þe holy goste with hem hadde þey euer Line 116 Þe secunde persone þe sone sent was to erþe Line 117 To take careynes kynde of a clene mayde Line 118 & so vnknowen he came caytifes to helpe Line 119 & wroȝt wondres ynowe ay tille he wo driede Line 120 Wyne he wroȝt of water at o word ene Line 121 Ten lasares at a logge he leched at enys Line 122 Pyned myd p[ar]il[sye] he putte to hele Line 123 & ded men fro þe deþ eche day rered Line 124 Croked & cancred he keuered hem alle Line 125

Line 125 Boþ þe dombe & þe deue myd his der wordes Line 126 Dide myracles mo þan y in mynde haue Line 127 Nis no clerk with countours couþe aluendel rekene Line 128 Fyf þousand of folke is ferr to here Line 129 With two fisches he fedde & fif ber loues Line 130 Þat eche freke hadde his fulle & ȝit ferre leued Line 131 Of brede & of broken mete bascketes twelue Line 132 Þer suwed hym out of an cite [seuenty] & twey Line 133 To do what he dempte disciples wer hoten Line 134 Hem to citees he sende his sawes to preche Line 135 Ay by two & by two til hy wer a-twynne Line 136 Hym suwed of an-oþer cite semeliche twelue Line 137 Pore men & noȝt prute aposteles wer hoten Line 138 Þat of cay[ti]fes he ches holy churche to encresche Line 139 Þe out-wale of þis worlde þis wer her names Line 140 Peter James & Jon & Jacob þe ferþe Line 141 & þe fifþe of his felawys Phelip was hoten Line 142 Þe sixte Symond was caled & þe seueþ eke Line 143

Line 143 Bertholomewe þat his bone neuer breke nolde Line 144 Þe eyȝt man was Mathu þat is myche yloued Line 145 Tadde & Tomas her ben ten euen Line 146 & Andreu þe elleueþ þat auntred hym myche Line 147 Byfor princes to preche was Petrus broþer Line 148 Þe laste man was vnlele & luþer of his dedis Line 149 Judas þat Jesu Crist to þe Jewes solde Line 150 Suþ hymsulf he slowe for sorow of þat dede Line 151 His body on a balwe tree to-breste on þe myddel Line 152 Whan Crist hadde heried helle & was [to] heuen passed Line 153 For þat mansed man Mathie þey chossyn Line 154 Ȝit vnbaptized wer boþe Barnabe & Poule Line 155 & noȝt knewen of Crist bot comen sone after Line 156 Þe princes & þe prelates aȝen þe paske tyme Line 157 Alle þei hadde hym in hate for his holy werkes Line 158 Hit was a doylful dede whan þey his deþ caste Line 159 Þrow Pilat pyned he was þe prouost of Rome Line 160 & þat worliche wif þat arst was ynempned Line 161 Haþ his visage in hir veil Veronyk ȝo hatte Line 162 Peynted priuely & playn þat no poynt wanteþ Line 163

Line 163 For loue he left hit hir til hir lyues ende Line 164 Þer is no gome [o]n þis [grounde] þat is grym wounded Line 165 Meselry ne meschef ne man vpon erþe Line 166 Þat kneleþ doun to þat cloþ & on Crist leueþ Line 167 Bot alle hapneþ to hele in [ane] hand whyle Line 168 At Rome reyned þe emperour quoþ þe kyng riche þan Line 169 Cesar synful wrecche þat sent hym fram Rome Line 170 Why nadde þy lycam be leyd low vnder erþe Line 171 Whan Pilat prouost was made suche a prince to jugge Line 172 & or þis wordes wer [wel] wonne to þe ende Line 173 Þe canker þat þe kyng hadde clenly was heled Line 174 With out faute þe face of flesche & of hyde Line 175 As newe as þe nebbe þat neuer was wemmyd Line 176 A corteys Crist seide þe kyng riche þan Line 177 Was neuer worke þat y wroȝt worþy þe to telle Line 178 Ne dede þat y haue don bot þy deþ mened Line 179 Ne neuer sey þe in siȝt goddis sone der Line 180 Bot now [be] bayne [to] my bone blessed lord Line 181

Line 181 To stire Nero with noye & newen his sorowe Line 182 & y schal buske me boun hem bale to wyrche Line 183 To do þe deueles of dawe & þy deþ venge Line 184 Telle me tit quoþ Titus what tokne he lafte Line 185 To hem þat knew hym for Crist & his crafte leued Line 186 Nempne þe trinyte by name quoþ Nathan at þries Line 187 & þer myd baptemed be in blessed water Line 188 Forþ þey fetten a font & foulled hym þer Line 189 Made hym cristen kyng þat for Crist werred Line 190 Corrours in to eche coste þan þe cours nomen Line 191 & alle his baronage broȝt to Burdewes hauen Line 192 Suþ with þe sondes-man he [s]ouȝt to Rome Line 193 Þe ferly & þe fair cure his fader to schewe Line 194 & he gronnand glad grete god þanked Line 195 & loude criande on Crist carped & saide Line 196 Worþy wemlese God in whom y byleue Line 197 [Als] þou in Bethleem was born of a bryȝt mayde Line 198 Sende me hele of my hurt & heyly y a-fowe Line 199 To be ded for þy deþ bot hit be der ȝolden Line 200

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