[6-text p 185]
Thogh þat I / for my Prymer shal be shent
And shal be beten / thries in an houre
I wol it konne / oure lady for to honoure
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¶ His felawe taughte hym / homward priuely
ffro day to day / til he koude it by rote
And thanne he soong it / wel and boldely
ffro word to word / acordyng with the note
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Twyes a day / it passed thurgh his throte
To scoleward / and homward / whan he wente
On Cristes moder / set was his entente
Line 1740
As I haue seyd / thurgh out the Iuerye
This litel child / as he cam to and fro
fful murily / wolde he synge and crye
O Alma redemptoris / euere mo
Line 1744
The swetnesse / his herte perced so
Of Cristes moder / that to hir to preye
He kan nat stynte / of syngyng by the weye
Line 1747
¶ Oure firste foo / the Serpent Sathanas
That hath in Iewes herte / his waspes nest
Vp swal and seyde / o Hebrayk peple allas
Is this to yow / a thyng that is honest
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That swich a boy / shal walken As hym lest
In youre despit and synge of [. . . . . [[MS torn]] ]h sentence
Which is agayns / oure l[. . . . . [[MS torn]] ]
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¶ ffro thennes forth / the Iewes han conspired [folio 211b]
This Innocent out of this world to chace
An homycide / ther-to han they hired
That in an Aleye / at a priuee place
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And as the child / gan for by for to pace
This cursed Iew / hym hente / and heeld hym faste
And kitte his throte / and in a pit hym caste
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