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Assembled is in thee / magnificence
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With mercy / goodnesse / and with swich pitee
That thou / that art the sonne of excellence
Nat oonly / helpest hem that preyen thee
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But often tyme / of thy benygnytee
fful frely / er that men / thyn help biseche
Thou goost biforn / and art hir lyues leche
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(9)
Now help thow meeke / and blisful faire mayde
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Me flemed wrecche / in this desert of galle
Thynk on the womman Cananee / that sayde
That whelpes eten / somme of the crommes alle
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That from hir lordes table / been yfalle
And though that I / vnworthy sone of Eue
Be synful / yet accepte my bileue
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(10)
And for that feith is deed / with-outen werkis
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So for to werken / yif me wit and space
That I be quit fro thennes / þat moost derk is
O thou / that art so fair / and ful of grace
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Be myn Aduocat in that heighe place
Theras with-outen ende / is songe Osanne
Thow Cristes mooder / doghter deere of Anne
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And of thy light my soule in prison lighte [folio 190b]
That troubled is / by the contagion
Of my body / and also by the wighte
Of erthely lust and fals affeccion
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O hauene of refut o saluacion
Of hem / þat been in sorwe / and in distresse
Now helpe / for to my werk I wol me dresse
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