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¶ And for to putte vs / from swich ydelnesse
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That cause is / of so greet confusion
I haue here doon / my feithful bisynesse
After the legende / in translacion
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Right of thy glorious lyf/ and passion
Thow with thy gerland / wroght of rose & lilie
Thee mene I / mayde and martir Seinte Cecilie
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(5)
And thow / that flour of virgines art alle [Inuocacio ad mariam.]
Of whom that Bernard / list so wel to write
To thee / at my bigynnyng I first calle
Thow confort of vs wrecches / do mendite
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Thy maydens deeth / that wan thurgh hir merite
The eternal lyf/ and of the feend victorie
As man may after / reden in hir Storie
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¶ Thow mayde and moder / doghter of thy sone [folio 166a]
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 desdaign / the makere hadde of kynde
His sone / in blood & flessh / to clothe & wynde
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¶ With Inne the Cloistre blisful / of thy sydis
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Took mannes shape / the eternal 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 thow virgyne wemmeles
Bar of thy body / and dweltest mayde pure
The creatour / of euery creature
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