Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum:
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That gaf the olifaunt · his last mortal wounde •
Machabeorum tellith this story is no fable •
And as hercules · in his conquest stable •
Bare vp the hevenes · in his humanyte •
ffor whom my sorwes · were made most lamentable •
Whan I behield hym · thus nayled to a tre •
Mankyndes quarel · made victorious •
ffor than leviathan · was bounde and ouerthrowe •
Whan witħ his tryumphes · most synguler glorious •
My sone had sougħte · with his bloode precious •
Conquerid the dragon · for al his felle pouste •
And dryve hym hom to his Infernal house •
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Whan first my sone · was nayled to a
tre • late euery man in this matier take heede •
And euery womman · in this world alive •
Com nere to me · to se his sides blede •
His love his detħ · his kyndenes to discryve •
To se the mysteryes · of his woundes fyve •
As bawme and triacle · of most soverante •
Clierly distillyng · to fynd sorow blyve •
Downe from my sone · I nayled to a tre •
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Trust in his mercy · and I wilbe evene • And humbly knele · be fore his face •
ffor almankynde · be mediatrice and meane •
Of synful folk · to releve the trespas •
That he witħ vengeaunce · shal hem nat manance •
Like theyr dismerites · to show his cruelte •
But shew to the his mercy and his grace •
That for theyr love · was nayled to a tre •
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