(2)
Frer menur i wil me make,
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and lecherie i wille asake;
to ihesu crist ich wil me take,
and serue in holi churche,
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all in mi ouris for to wake,
goddis wille to wurche.
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(3)
Wurche i wille þis workes gode,
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for him þat boyht us in þe rode;
from his side ran þe blode;
so dere he gan vs bie:
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for sothe i tel him mor þan wode,
þat haytit [? for 'hantith,' practises.] licherie [MS. Digby 86, c. 1275 A.D., leaf 125, back. Bodleian Library.]
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4. Les diȝ de seint bernard comenceent .I. ci tres beaus. [(Printed before in Anglia, III. 59, etc., by Varnhagen.)]
(9 stanzas of 6, aab, ccb.)
(1)
Þe blessing of heuene king,
And of his moder, þat swete þing,
Mote we all hauen!
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He ous ȝeue good beginning,
And clene lif at oure ending;
Þat auhte we alle craven.
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(2)
Lestneþ me a luitel þrowe,
Ȝe þat wilen ou selven cnowe!
Ounwis þau ich be,
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.I. shal hou tellen, alse ich can,
Wat holy writ spekeþ of man;
Lestneþ nou to me!
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