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FAyr swete fader full gret defawtē me holdeth for syn¦ners / yt haue leste your lawe Now for trouthe their was neuyr man had more of pou{er}te & defawte than he had in his hende / and thys sheweth seynte barnarde that seyth. ¶Lignum defuit capiti. terra pedi vestimentum corpori. potus ori. a¦micus consolacioni· ¶Alas what defawte was thys / the tre failed to hys hede / the erthe failed to hys feete / clothyng fayled to hys body / euery frende failed to hys con¦forte / Now beholde more veryly of thys gret defawte that the tree fay¦led to his hede for the crosse where he hinge was withoute hed. for whan he was so wery & hys hede greued hym that was so sore betyn & bro∣sed wyth many grete strokes▪ that vnethe hys necke myght bere hyt hyt was so astoned wyth peyne / & whan he had so grete nede to reste hys wofull / hede he founde not so moche ease that he had ony place to lene hyt to. he was streyned so hye vpon the crosse that hys hed might towche no parte therof / A what vnmesurable peynes / and sorowes he had / there founde he an ouyr hard and sharpe pelow / for the hede of so noble and gret a kynge as he was O good lorde whan we fele ony gret peyne or febilnesse in our hedis we wyl haue softe pelowys vndir our harde hedys / and some woman or some mā to hold hit for taswage the peine but he had nother the ton nor ye tothyr but skornars as hym self seyth be Ierom the prophete. ¶Factus sum in derisum omni populo meo canticū eorum tota die