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f.225 recto
Folio 223 VersoFolio 224 RectoFolio 224 VersoFolio 225 RectoFolio 225 VersoFolio 226 RectoFolio 226 VersoFolio 227 RectoFolio 227 VersoFolio 228 RectoFolio 228 Verso

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Folio 225 Recto
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With maria called magdaleyne •
Erly eche morowe while my lyfe may dure •
ffrom slouthe and slommbre my selfe I shałł restreyne •
To Seke Ihesu at his sepulture •
Whom for to fynde yf I may recovre •
To haue possession of hym at liberte •
There were in hertis no richer creature1 •
To whome ałł creaturis bowe shałł there kne •
In mercyfułł Ihesu to put a very prefe •
of his mercy that no man dispeyre •
Vpon the crosse gaffe graunte to þe thevffe •
To paradise with hym to repayre •
maugre Cerberus and ałłe his crewelte2 •
O gracius Ihesu benynge and debonayre •
Take out of helle Soulis many payre3 •
haue mercy on ałł þat bowe to þer knee •
The name of Ihesu Swetteste of names ałł •
Gevyn gostely emnis holsumist treacle •
ffor wo so euer vnto this name calle •
Of cankered Surfetis fynt reles by meracle •
To yeffe blende light lanterne and spectakle •
And brightest myroure of ałł felicite •
Support and Shelde dyffence and chaste obstacle •
To ałł þat knelle to Ihesu on ther knee •
Patriarkis and prophetis on be on •
The rechasis4 rearchis and all þe orderis ix •
xii apostleis and marteris euerychoun •
holy confessouris and euery pure virgyn •
To blessied Ihesu most mekely shałł enclyne •
ffoules fysshen and bestis of the See •
kynde thought þem by natureyl disciplyne •
mekelly to Ihesu to bowe a downe your knee •
Notes
  1. The initial glyph seems odd for "c" based on elsewhere in the manuscript, but I am not sure what esle it could be. ↩
  2. there is what appears to be a suspension mark over the e, but there is no glyph that is obviously missing from the word. As this is line seven of the verse in the EETS edition it could be related to that, but it would be an odd way to do so. ↩
  3. This is line five in the EETS edition. ↩
  4. Here unlike in other places the deletion has been dotted underneath but not struck through in red. ↩

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