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[De cruce deponitur.]

Fro cros, crist was takun doun
At euesong tyme, we fynde;
Power of resurreccioun
Was hid in goddis mynde.
Þe medicyn of liyf, bi storie,
Took sithe deeþ out of toun.
Allas! þe coroun of glorie
Was þus cast vpsedoun.
We worschipe þee, crist, and blesse to þee; Ffor bi þi deeþ þou hast aȝenbouȝt þe world.