[6-text p 187]
Yaf in hir thoght inwith a litel space
That in that place / after hir sone she cryde
Where he was casten / in a pit bisyde
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O grete god / that parfournest thy laude [¶ Auctor]
By mouth of Innocentz / lo heere thy myght
This gemme of chastite / this Emeraude
And eek of martirdom / the Ruby bright
Line 1800
Ther he with throte ykoruen lay vpright
He Alma redemptoris / gan to synge
So loude / þat al the place gan to rynge
Line 1803
¶ The cristene folk / that thurgh the strete wente
In coomen / for to wondre vp on this thyng
And hastily / they for the Prouost sente
He cam anon / with outen tariyng
Line 1807
And herieth Crist that is of heuene kyng
And eek his mooder / honour of mankynde
And after that / the Iewes leet he bynde
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¶ This child / with pitous lamentacion [folio 154b]
Vp taken was / syngynge his song alway
And with honour/ of greet procession
They carien hym / vn to the nexte Abbay
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His mooder swownynge / by his beere lay
Vnnethe / myghte the peple þat was theere
This newe Rachel / brynge fro his beere
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¶ With torment and with shameful deeth echon
This Prouost dooth the Iewes for to sterue
That of this mordre wiste / and that anon
He nolde / no swich cursednesse obserue
Line 1821
Yuele shal he haue / þat yuele wol deserue
Therfore / with wilde hors / he dide hem drawe
And after that he heng hem by the lawe
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