[6-text p 187]
Ȝaf in hir þought wiþinne a litel space
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That in þat place after hir sone sche cryde
wher as he was cast in a put besyde /
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O grete god þat parformedist þin laude
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by mouth of Innocentȝ lo here þy might
This gemme of chastite þis emeraude
And eek of martirdom þe ruby bright
Ther he with þrote I-kut lay vpright
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He . Alma redemptoris gan to synge
So lowde þat al þe place bigan to rynge
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The cristen folk þat þurgh þe strete went/
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In comen for to wonder vpon þis þing
And hastily for the prouost þay sent
He cam anoon wiþoute tarying
And heriede crist þat is of heuen kyng
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And eek his moder honour of mankynde
And after þat þe Iewes let he bynde
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This child with pitous lamentacioun
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vp taken was syngyng his song alway [folio 202b]
And with honour of gret processioun
Thay caried him vnto þe next abbay
His modir swownyng by þe beere lay
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Vnneþe might þe poeple þat was þere
This newe Rachel bringe fro þe beere
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With torment and with schamful deth echon
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This prouost doþ þese Iewes for to sterue
That of þis moerder wist and þat anoon
he wolde no such cursednesse obserue
Euel schal haue þat euyl wol deserue
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Therfore with wilde hors he dede hem drawe
And after þat he heng hem by þe lawe
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