Here begynneth þe Prioresse prolog of Dominus dominus noster [[No gaps in the MS. between the stanzas.]]
¶ O Lord our lord / thy name / How merveilous
Is in this large world ysprad koth she
For nat onely thy laude / precious
Perfourmed is / by men of dignitee
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But by the mouth of children thy bountee
Perfourmed is / for on the brest soukyng
Som tyme / shewen they / thyn herying
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¶ Wherfore in laud / as I best can or may
Of the / and of the white lilly flour
Which that the bare / and is a maide all-way
To tell a storie I woll do my labour
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Nought that I may encrece hir honour
For she hir-self/ is honour and þe rote
Of bounte next hir son / and soules bote
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¶ O moder maide / o maide moder free
O bussh vnbrent/ brennyng in Moises sight/.
That ravysshedest doun / from the deitee [Eg. 2726 folio 177b]
Thurgh thyn humblesse / the gost þat in the light/
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Of whos vertue / whan he thy goost light/
Conceyued was / the faders sapience
Helpe me to tell it/ in thy reuerence] [[Eg. 2726 ends]]
Lady thyn bountee / thyn magnificence [folio 156a]
Thy vertu / and thyn gret humylitee
There may no tonge expresse / in no science
ffor som tyme lady / or men preyen to the
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Thow gost biforn / of thyn benygnytee
And getest vs the light / of thyn preyere
To gyden vs / vn-to thy sone so deere
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