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A facie ire [et] indignacionis tue, quia eleuans allisisti me.

A-fer fro þe face of þi greuaunce
Thow droue me down wiþ vprisyng,
Fadir, I was to thi plesaunce
Lyfte up as God in God dwellyng;
But, for to stynte al disturbaunce
Of man þat synnede not ceessyng,
Thow droue me adoun to chese a chaunce,
As man for man the deeþ takyng.