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12. Hail, Mother and Virgin Immaculate
All haile! lady, mother & virgyn immaculate,
Haile! mary, most precious that bare our savyour ihū
Haile! clarified cristall, haile! wife mundificate.
Haile! rote of grace, our ioy thow did renewe
ffor the holy gost did clerely in the yssue.
Our soles for lacke had ells perresshed sore
Nere throȝ the helpe of our highe redemptour.
Haile! mary, most precious that bare our savyour ihū
Haile! clarified cristall, haile! wife mundificate.
Haile! rote of grace, our ioy thow did renewe
ffor the holy gost did clerely in the yssue.
Our soles for lacke had ells perresshed sore
Nere throȝ the helpe of our highe redemptour.
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All haile! whose solempne glorious concepcioun
ffull of glorie and hye ioye tryumphaunte,
Bothe celestyall & terrestriall gif laude with Iubilacioun
Of new ioy & gladnesse with solace incessaunte.
Alhaile! whose natiuite to vs is solempnysaunte,
fferens lucem vt lucyfer, lux oriens,
Dyademe Angelicall, verum solem preveniens.
ffull of glorie and hye ioye tryumphaunte,
Bothe celestyall & terrestriall gif laude with Iubilacioun
Of new ioy & gladnesse with solace incessaunte.
Alhaile! whose natiuite to vs is solempnysaunte,
fferens lucem vt lucyfer, lux oriens,
Dyademe Angelicall, verum solem preveniens.
Alhaile! be thy mekenes sine viro fecunditas,
Whose Amyable Annunciacioun to vs was redempcion.
Ioye therfore be to the, tu summa suavitas,
And glorified be the houre of thy incarnacioun,
By whome we advoyde the infernall dampnacioun.
So dulcour was the ground in whom crist hym planted.
O mater most illuminate, we myȝt not the haue wanted.
Whose Amyable Annunciacioun to vs was redempcion.
Ioye therfore be to the, tu summa suavitas,
And glorified be the houre of thy incarnacioun,
By whome we advoyde the infernall dampnacioun.
So dulcour was the ground in whom crist hym planted.
O mater most illuminate, we myȝt not the haue wanted.
Haile! true chast virgyn & mother immaculate,
Whose pure purificacion to vs was purgacion.
Haile! replete with all virtue Angelicate,
Whose celestiall hye Ascendaunte Assumpcion
Was oure gret ioye and glorificacion.
Wherfore, dere lady, solistrice be for grace
That we with thy son in heyven may haue a place.
Whose pure purificacion to vs was purgacion.
Haile! replete with all virtue Angelicate,
Whose celestiall hye Ascendaunte Assumpcion
Was oure gret ioye and glorificacion.
Wherfore, dere lady, solistrice be for grace
That we with thy son in heyven may haue a place.
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