COnfitemini domino & inuocate nomen eius; Annun|ciate inter gentes opera eius. [Ps. 104 (105).]
Aue Mater filij, per quam [r. quem?] liberantur
Qui sub mole criminum [MS. crimini] pressi condempnantur:
Ipsi, per quem federa gracie ditantur,
Pie nos confedera cum hijs qui saluantur.
Heil Modur of Sone i-blest,
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Þorwh whom dyliuered beone
Þei þat wiþ crymes ben opprest,
And dampned wiþ-outen wene.
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To him, þorwh hom [MS. him] euer-mo
Bondes of grace ben maade,
Meke [MS. Make] him þou bynde us to,
Wiþ hem þat ben saue and glade.
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COnfitemini domino, quoniam bonus, quoniam in seculum misericordia eius. [Ps. 105 (106).]
Aue cuius filio pie confitemur,
Quod Egipti tenebris; [MS. tenebras] per hunc amouemur [MS. admonemur]
Qui pro nobis gladium ponit super femur, [cf. Ps. 44, v. 4.]
Quo accinctus dimicet, ne nos expugnemur.
Heil to whos sone in soþnes
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We knowleche wiþ good fey,
Þat of Egiptus derknes
Þorwh him we ben [don] a-wey;
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Þe whuche for vs haþ put a swerd
Vppon his syde ful riht,
And so igurt nis nouȝt a-ferd,
ffor vs redi to fiht.
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Confitemini domino, quoniam bonus, quoniam in seculum misericordia eius. [Ps. 106 (107).]
Aue Mater domini qui te preelegit,
Qui cateruas hostium [MS. hominum] moriens confregit [ef. Ps. 106, v. 16.]
Et inferna uisitans, predo quos abegit
A predonis faucibus preda factus egit.
Heil Modur of þe lord of al
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Þat þe to-fore oþur haþ chosun;
Þat cumpaygnyes grete and smal
[Of] þe fendes dyȝinge haþ brokun,
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And aftur þat helle visityng,
Þe [r. þat þe?] rauynour drof a-way,
