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The prince was slayne the servaunt went at large •
and to deliuer his sogett from prison •
The lorde tak1 on hym for to bere charge •
To quite mankynde by obligacion •
Selid with v wondis he paid oure raunson •
Man to restore to paradice his cite •
Þis man not bounde I axe this question •
To blessied Ihesu to bowe his knee •
Sixx hundirtħ2 tyme with Sixti tolde be numbre •
In paulis pistiłł Ihesu man may Rede •
multitude of ffyndis to encombre •
To pay oure raunson his blode he did shede •
Not a Smale part but ałł he did out blede •
ffor adam appul pulcked from the tree •
Ihesu died for shame mane taake3 hede •
Gyf thanke to Ihesu and blow a downe thy knee •
Ałł þis thynges considerd that I tolde •
mane where euer thow holde thi passage •
Towarde Ihesu ałł wey that thow holde •
Wtih the4 fix loke one is ve sayge •
Crouned with thourne for oure gret out k5 rage •
haue this in mynde and lerne on thynge of me •
That day non ennie shałł do vs no damage •
Whan to Ihesu devoutely bowe oure knee •
Withe in my Closet and my litełł couche •
O blesfułł Ihesu and by my beddys syde •
That none enmy neuer no fer shall me touche •
The name of Ihesu with me shall euer a bydde •
My lodestere and my Souerain gide •
In this worlde here bothe on6 londe and see •
O Ihu Ihesu for ałł thy folk provyde •
Wiche to thy name deuoutly bowe ther knee •
Notes
  1. When compared with "k" in "bulwarke" at verse eighteen it's apparent that there is no terminal "e" as we might expect. ↩
  2. The upper curved ascender of the "h" here is difficult to see from the microfilm facsimile available, but it is visible in the manuscript. It also appears that this "h" is intended to be barred. ↩
  3. there is a curved line between the first and second glyphs here that suggests a suspension. ↩
  4. The EETS edition and (Harley 218 as its exemplar) has "eyȝe" here, but here it appears to be "the." ↩
  5. This appears to be a misreading on the part of the scribe. Based on the hand in other places in the manuscript it looks like it would be k (or possibly l), but here's enough oddness to the lower bow that I cannot be sure. ↩
  6. Unlike with other terminal "n" in the work here the scribe does not include the curved mark terminating the glyph. This supports the idea that the curved "n" is intended as a suspended letter with in the terminal position. ↩

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