[6-text p 187]
Yaf in hir thought in with a litel space
That in that place / after hir sone she cryde
Wher he was casten / in a pit bisyde
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¶ O grete god / that parfournest thy laude
By mouth of Innocentz / lo here thy myght
This gemme of chastitee / this Emeraude
And eek of martirdom / the Ruby bright
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Ther he with throte ycoruen / lay vpright
He Alma redemptoris / gan to synge
So loude / that al the place gan to rynge
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¶ The cristen 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
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And herieth Crist that is of heuene kyng
And eek his moder / honour of mankynde
And after that the Iewes leet he bynde
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¶ This child / with pitous lamentacion
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 moder swownyng by his beere lay
Vnnethe myghte / the peple that was there
This newe Rachel / bryngen fro his beere [¶ Rachel plorans filios suos noluit consolari &c.]
¶ With torment and with shameful deth echon
This Prouost dooth thise Iewes for to sterue
That of this mordre wiste / and that anon
He nolde / no swich cursednesse obserue
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Yuel shal haue / that yuel wol disserue
Ther fore with wilde hors [he di [[MS torn]] ]de hem drawe
And after that he [. . . . . [[MS torn]] ]
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