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Nou passe we forþ / in vre gate
To seinte Marie / þe Nunciate
Two Mile is bitwene .I. vnder-stonde.
But þi aren / sumdel longe.
Þer is writen / as I. ow say.
Of vre ladi / in þat way.
A-doun heo com wiþ Angeles.
To a Frere of þat hous.
And seide to þat ilke mon.
Þat out of dedly synne / þider com.
Fro þe fuir of helle / heo wolde him schilde.
As heo was Mayden / and moder Mylde.