But only off entent to wynne
The love off Cryst; & ffor hys sake,
All they han vp-on hem take,
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Seyng how, ffull long aforn,
Cryst to suffre was yborn,
And fforbar nat to be ded.
And sythen he that was her hed
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Suffrede peynys, deth, & woo, [folio 8b]
The membrys wolde endure also, [[in alle St.]]
And ffolwe ther hed on al [Omnes ellecti caput suum.] thyng,
As Seyn Gregoir in hys wretyng [Gregorius.]
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Recordeth pleynly (who taketh hed)
Off allë chose, [[alle Choys St., al chose C.]] Cryst ys hed;
ffor wych, the membrys, as was due,
Affter ther hed lyst to sue,
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Wych by example wente a-fore,
To whom thentre was not fforbore.
ffor swych as deydë ffor hys love,
By wyketys entrede in above,
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Vp the gatë, hih aloffte,
Thogh ther [[ther was MS.]] passage was not soffte;
The porter lyst hem nat to lette.
And ther pencellys vp they sette [Camb. cap. iii.: "j seyh the penselles hanginge steyned red with blood."]
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On cornerys, wher them thouhtë good,
Al steyned with ther ovnë blood.
And whan that I parceyved yt,
I conceyvede yn my wyt,
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That who scholdë ther-with-Inne
Entre by fforce, he most yt wynne
By manhood only, and by vertu.
ffor, by record off Seyn Mathew,
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The hevene (as by hys sentence,) [Regnum celorum vim patitur.]
Wonnen ys by vyolence.
Crysostom Recordeth ek also,— [Magna violencia est, nasci in terra, & celum capere, [rapere St.] & ha|bere per virtutem quod non potest haberi per naturam. Crysosto[mus].]
Who lyst taken hed ther-to,—
That gret vyolence & myght
yt ys, who that loke a-ryht,
A man be born in erth her downe,
