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Scribantur hec in generacione altera, populus qui creabitur laudabit Dominum.

In anoþer kynrede lete þese be writen,
Thanne schal preise God þe peple vnbore,
For who-so may þese wondris wyten
Ouȝte to þanke God þerfore;
And þat is for we falsly flyten,
Hys fair[e] flesch was al to-tore;
For mannys sake so sore smyten
Was neuere noon siþen ne bifore.