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(4)
¶ And for to putten vs / from suche Idelnesse [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]]
that cause is / of so grete confusion
I haue here don / my feithful besynesse
after the legende / in translacion
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right after thi glorious liff / and passion
thow with thi garland / wroughte of rose and lylye
the mene I / maide / and martir / seynt Cecelye.
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(5)
¶ And thow that floure art / of virgynes alle
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of whom that Bernard / list so wel to write
to the at my bigynnyng / first I calle
thow comforte of vs wrecches / do me endite
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thi maidens deth / that was thorugh hir merite
the eternal liff / and of the fende victorie
as men mow after rede / in hir storie.
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(6)
¶ Thow maiden and moder / doughter of thi sone] [[Arch. Seld. B. 14 extr. ends]]
Thou welle of mercy synful soules cure [folio 171a]
In whom þat god for bounte chees to wone
Thou humble and heih ouer euery creature
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Thou nobledest so ferre oure nature
That no desdeyn þe makere hadde of kynde
his sone in blood and fleissch to cloþe and wynde
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(7)
¶ Wiþinne þe cloystre blisful of þine sydes
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Took mannes schap þe eterne loue and pees
That of þe trine compas lord and gyde is
Whom erþe and see and heuene out of reles
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Ay herien and þou virgine wemmeles
Bare of þy body and dwelledest/ mayde pure
The creatour of euery creature
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