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And for to putte vs / fro swich ydelnesse
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That cause is / of so greet confusion
I haue heer doon / my feithful bisynesse
After the legende / in translacion
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Right of thy glorious lif and passion
Thou with thy gerland/ wroght with rose and lilie
Thee meene I / mayde and mooder Cecilie
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ANd thow / that flour of virgines art alle [folio 190a] [¶ Inuocacio ad Ma|riam.]
Of whom that Bernard/ list so wel to write
To thee / at my bigynnyng first I call
Thou confort of vs wrecches / do me endite
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Thy maydens deeth / that wan thurgh hire merite
The eterneel lyf / and of the feend victorie
As man may after / reden in hire storie
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Thow mayde and mooder / doghter of thy sone
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Thow welle of mercy / synful soules cure
In whom / that god for bountee / chees to wone
Thow humble and heigh / ouer euery creature
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Thow nobledest so ferforth / oure nature
That no desdeyn / the makere hadde of kynde
His sone / in blood and flessh / to clothe and wynde
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With-Inne the Cloistre blisful of thy sydis
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Took mannes shape / the eterneel loue and pees
That of the tryne compas / lord and gyde is
Whom erthe and see / and heuene out of relees
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Ay heryen / and thou virgine wemmelees
Baar of thy body / and dweltest mayden pure
The creatour / of euery creature
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