IHESUS CRISTUS.
ffili, recordare quia recepisti bona in vita tua. [MS. sua]
Touȝ Iours eyeȝ pour en quer
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Ke dieu vous voylle en fyn dampner
Si vous aueȝ saunȝ contredist
En ceste secle tut vostre delist.
Eueriday ha þou in herte dredyng
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Leste god þe dampne at þe endyng
Ȝif þow haue al þe world at wille
Wiþ-oute wiþ-stondyng loud or stille.
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IUDYTH.
Omnes qui placuerunt deo, per multas tribulaciones transierunt.
E touȝ les seinȝ passeȝ sount
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Par dure greuaunce de ceste mound:
E vous, ky estes peccheur,
Quideȝ passer saunȝ nul estur?
Siþen þeos seyntes ben passed euerichon
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Out of þis world wiþ tribulacion,
Þou, þat art a sinful man,
Wenest þow wiþ-outen to passen þan?
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NABUGODONOSOR.
Contra omnes precipue qui contempserunt me egredere, nec parcet oculus tuus.
Cum plus vous a-forceȝ de bien fere,
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De le maufe auereȝ plus forte guere;
Mes len ne scet en a-saut
Ki chet bas ne ky mounte haut.
Þe more þou peynest þe wel to do,
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Þe strengor werre þe fend meueþ þe to;
But in a-saut men wite not wel-neih
Ho falleþ doun, ho clymbeþ an heih.
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LABAN.
Quare abiecisti me, & me ignorante fugere voluisti?
Ky se retret de vanite
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E ce doyne a bounte,
De male gent serra mesdit,
Mes a deu ert le plus parfit.
