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Geyn the guyse / of kynges riche crownes
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My deere sone / weryd a crowne of thorn
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Of gold and perle / ageyn ther statly gownes
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Ageyn ther rydyng / gret meyne them beforn
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My sone on foote / hath his cros I born
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Ageyn ther seetys / of stonys and perre
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And for mankynde / that was thoruh synne lorn
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He poore and nakyd / was nailed to a tre
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Ageyn ther beddyn / statly hi
gh and softe
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Of worldly pryncis / with pilwes for ther hed
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Vpon the Roode / my sone was lefft a loffte
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With bloody purpil / his mantil maad al red
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Markid with a spere / and for mankynde ded
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And gruchchid no thyng / thoruh his humylite
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To me noon ese / what that I took heed
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And sau
gh my sone / thus nailed to a tre
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ffor
Adamys synne / thus was my sone slayn
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thoru
gh the Oold serpent bi thassent of eve
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Whan thoruh my meeknesse / mankynde was mad fayn
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Hir name turnyd / ther thraldam to releve
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And
gabriel cam / my meeknesse for
to preve
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Sent by oon accoord / of al the trynyte
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But ful soore aftir / it did my herte greve
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Whan I my sone sau
gh nailed to a tre
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