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A breue rehersall of the great profet and remedy founde by true oblacion made to this moniall.
 
 


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A breue rehersall of the great profet and remedy founde by true oblacion made to this moniall.

These forsayd myracles/and other many one
Infinite to reherse all seriously
This virgin shewed/by singuler deuocion
Unto all people sicke and in miserye
Desiryng her prayers/and suffrages mekely
All suche departed from her with gladnesse
Whiche came to her presence/in wo and heuenesse
Among all myracles after our intelligence
Whiche Radegunde shewed by her humilite
One is moost vsuall had in experience
Among the common people/noted with hert fre
By offeryng of otes/after theyr degre
At her holy aulters where myracles in sight
Dayly haue be done by grace day and nyght
By oblacion of othes/halt/lame/and blynde
Hath ben restored/vnto prosperite
Dombe men to speke/aboue cours of kynde
Sickemen delyuerd/from payne and miserie
Maydens hath kept theyr pure virginite
Wyddowes defended from greuous oppression
And clarkes exalted/by her to promocion
Many other myracles/she shewed expresse
To euery estate/religious and rurall
By her great vertue/merite/and goodnesse
Whiche be nat rehersed/here in speciall
But who so lyst to knowe her myracles all


May forther enquire/of theyr benignite
The boke of her myracles where in they written be
Whiche miracles/who redeth ceriously
Marke/mynde/and bere them well away
Shall fynde that our lorde god/the kyng of glory
Sheweth his myghty power day by day
For all suche: whiche in theyr hartes fynde may
Hym to loue/and serue aboue all thynge
And hym to folowe/gladly in theyr lyuynge
Lyke as dyd/this virgyn pudicall
As in her lyfe I haue made mencion
She forsoke the pleasures/great and small
Of this worlde: and set all her affection
Porely to lyue in strayte religion
In prayer/fastyng/and worthy penaunce
With watche/labour/and simple sustinaunce
She viseted the sicke persons impotent
And ministred/with good hert and mynde
To them suche thynges/as were conuenient
She succurred both lame/halt/and blynde
And the sore lazers/where she dyd them fynde
She wasshed/and touched theyr sores tenderly
And neuer abhorred/any malady
Her almes she gaue/there as she sawe nede
To monasteries/and persons religious
Brefely to speke/many a vertuous dede
She fulfylled: for whiche our lorde Iesus
For her shewed suche miracles glorious

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What tyme she was here in this worlde lyuyng
And also syth her hens away partynge.