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CXXXVI.

[A gentill Jhesu]

A gentill Jhesu
Who is that that dothe me call
what woldist þou haue
I a synner that offt doth fall
mercy of þe I crave
ye my maker I call the
why louyst þou me
than leve thy syn
or I nyll the
and thynk on this lesson
that now I teche the
a I will I will
gentill Jhesu
Vppon the cross nailid I was for þe
suffyrd deth to pay þi rawnsum
for sake þi syn man for þe loue of me
be repentant make playne confession
to contryte harts I do remyssion
for I am not vengeable be not dispayryd
gayne gostly enmys þynk on my passion
Whi art þou froward sith I am mercyable Jhesu
a Jentill Jhesu
my blody wownds downe raylyng be this tre
loke on them well and haue compassion
þe crowne of thorne þe speres þe nailis þre
the percide hand and fote of Indignacion
my hart ryven for thy redempcion
let now vs twayne In þis thyng be tretable

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loue for loue be [by] Just conuencion
Whi art þou froward

[etc. ut supra].


I hade on petur and mawdlen pyte
ffor þi contrite of thy contricion
saynt tomas of [Juds?] Incrudelite
he put his hands depe In my syde adown
role vp this mater grave it In þi reson
Why art þou vnstable syth that I am kynde
my blode best tiacle for þi transgression
be not þou froward

[etc. ut supra].


Thynk ageyn perde on my humilite
Cum to stole record well this lesson
gayn fals envy thynk on my charyte
my blode all spent by distillacion
Why did I this—to saue þe from preson
hang this littell table
afore þyne harte
swetter þan bawme
gayne gostly poyson
be þou not affraide etc.

[ut supra].


Lord on all synffull here knelyng on kne
Thy deth remembryng of humble affeccion
O Jhesu graunt of þi benignite
of that þi fyve wellis plentness of fusion
cald þi fyve wounds by computacion
from surfetts reprovable
now for þi [OMITTED]
meke mediacion
at hir request
be to vs merciable Jhesu
A Jentill Jhesu.