¶
An
exhortacyon
made
to
Relygyouse
systers
in
the
tyme
of
theyr
consecracyon
by
the
Reuerende
fader
in
god
Iohan
Alcok
bysshop
of
Ely.
¶
I
aske
the
banes
betwix
the
hyghe
and
moost
myghty
prynce
kyng
of
all
kynges
sone
of
almyghty
god
and
the
virgyne
Mary
in
humanyte
Cryste
Ihesu
of
Nazareth
of
the
one
partye
.
And.
A.
B.
of
the
thother
partye
/
that
yf
ony
man
or
woman
can
shewe
ony
lawfull
Inpedyment
other
by
ony
precontracte
made
or
corrupcyon
of
body
or
soule
of
the
sayd
.
A.
B.
that
she
ought
not
to
be
maryed
this
daye
vnto
the
sayd
myghty
prynce
Ihesu
that
they
wolde
accordynge
vnto
the
lawe
shewe
it
.
GOod
syster
we
are
here
gadred
before
almyghty
god
and
all
his
sayntes
in
heuen
in
his
chirche
here
mylytaunt
to
solempne
this
noble
spowsage
bytwene
the
sayd
sone
of
almyghty
god
and
you
/
whiche
spowsage
muste
be
of
your
partye
desyred
with
all
your
hoole
herte
&
free
wyll
/
not
compelled
by
none
of
your
frendes
/
nor
for
cause
of
worldly
worshyp
nor
ease
of
your
body
/
but
oonly
for
the
loue
&
seruyce
ye
owe
to
the
sayd
myghty
prynce
/
to
serue
hym
&
obeye
hym
&
kepe
his
commaundementes
/
and
all
other
men
&
worldly
worshyp
renounce
and
forsake
and
hym
to
loue
aboue
all
thynge
/
&
his
preceptes
to
performe
and
all
other
thynge
to
do
that
perteyneth
to
a
good
wyfe
.
How
moche
be
ye
bounde
vnto
hym
that
wyl
consent
that
ye
be
maryed
vnto
hym
so
grete
a
prynce
&
almyghty
/
and
ye
a
wretche
his
creature
&
of
a
poore
lynage
.
For
the
common
vsage
is
kynges
to
mary
togydre
.
Dukes
and
Erles
togydre
/
and
poore
people
togydre
/
and
seldome
seen
the
ryche
and
the
poore
mary
togydre
/
and
yet
this
moost
myghty
prynce
lorde
of
heuen
&
of
erthe
for
the
loue
he
bereth
vnto
you
to
make
you
his
quene
/
his
fader
of
heuen
to
be
your
fader
his
moder
to
be
yours
.
And
so
by
this
maryage
all
your
kynred
shal
be
of
cosynage
by
affynyte
to
the
fader
of
heuen
/
our
lady
all
the
angels
with
all
the
hole
Genelogy
of
Cryste
/
to
whiche
honour
and
excellence
no
carnall
spowsage
coude
exalte
you
.
Therfore
yf
ye
contynue
his
faythfull
&
true
spowse
commyttynge
your
mynde
your
wyll
&
all
your
werkes
to
obserue
his
commanndementes
/
your
rewarde
shall
be
as
in
your
Ioynter
&
dowery
excede
all
rewardes
that
can
be
thought
&
may
be
geuen
vnto
man
.
FYrste
syster
yf
ye
wyll
be
spowsed
to
this
noble
prynce
&
so
be
determyned
in
your
mynde
.
I
saye
thyse
wordes
to
you
of
the
holy
ghoost
.
(
Audi
filia
et
vide
&
inclina
aurem
tuam
et
obliuiscere
populum
tuum
et
domum
patris
tui
)
That
is
to
saye
/
doughter
here
see
and
gyue
humble
attendaunce
/
yf
ye
wyll
be
spowsed
to
this
myghty
prynce
/
ye
muste
forgete
and
relynquysshe
Ioye
and
felycyte
of
this
worlde
/
and
the
house
of
all
your
generacyon
/
your
fader
and
moder
and
all
your
carnall
frendes
/
and
ye
muste
folowe
hym
in
condycyons
/
and
leue
your
olde
name
and
condycyons
and
to
be
called
after
his
name
▪
his
name
is
Ihesus
Nazarenus
.
And
soo
ye
muste
be
called
Nazarena
.
It
is
wryten
(
Nazarei
candidiores
niue
interpretantur
virgulti
vel
floridi
siue
custodientes
aut
separati
a
mundo
vel
vncti
siue
sancti
aut
consecrati
)
That
is
to
saye
.
Ye
muste
be
as
a
yonge
grene
braunche
and
as
a
floure
and
as
a
keper
of
the
tresour
of
your
husbonde
and
seuered
from
the
worlde
as
a
noynted
holy
and
consecrate
quene
/
for
thyse
propertees
amonge
other
hath
your
spowse
.
Fyrste
ye
muste
be
as
a
yonge
grene
braunche
/
the
whiche
loseth
his
fayre
beaute
whan
he
is
seuered
from
the
rote
.
The
rote
of
all
Relygyon
is
Ihesu
of
Nazareth
that
is
charyte
(
Quia
deus
caritas
est
)
And
who
soo
euer
is
not
in
charyte
he
departeth
hymselfe
from
almyghty
god
.
Soo
ye
muste
loue
your
spowse
Ihesu
aboue
all
thynge
/
he
muste
be
in
your
mynde
/
in
your
soule
/
in
your
herte
/
and
in
all
your
werkes
.
And
of
hym
specyally
ye
muste
speke
/
for
yf
ye
haue
ony
pleasure
for
to
speke
of
ony
other
thynges
of
the
worlde
or
of
ony
other
man
/
thenne
wyll
he
be
wrothe
.
For
as
saynt
Gregory
sayth
(
Prouidendum
ergo
nobis
est
quia
intueri
non
debet
quod
non
licet
concupisci
.
Et
iohannes
)
Cryste
sayth
(
Qui
studet
eligantes
facies
inspicere
ipse
fornacem
passionis
accendit
)
For
he
wyll
that
ye
kepe
oonly
and
entyerly
vnto
hym
your
fyue
wyttes
/
to
haue
noo
pleasure
for
to
loke
vppon
man
or
woman
/
nor
to
here
of
noo
worldely
thynges
/
nor
speke
of
noo
concupyscence
/
nor
handell
noo
contagyous
thynges
/
but
oonly
that
shall
be
to
his
pleasure
and
seruyce
.
For
as
saynt
Ierom
sayth
.
There
was
neuer
man
soo
Ielous
of
his
wyfe
and
taketh
hede
of
his
werkes
and
dedes
as
our
lorde
your
spowse
wyll
take
hede
of
you
For
ye
can
thynke
noo
thought
but
he
knoweth
it
/
nor
speke
noo
worde
but
he
hereth
it
/
nor
be
in
noo
place
but
he
is
there
presente
/
nor
noo
thynge
can
dysceyue
hym
/
therfore
ye
muste
loue
hym
aboue
all
thynge
and
be
in
parfyte
charyte
with
all
your
systers
and
his
people
and
seruauntes
.
Also
Cryste
Ihesu
is
called
(
Flos
campi
)
The
floure
of
Nazareth
/
the
beaute
of
this
excedeth
all
other
vertues
and
it
is
so
noble
a
tresoure
that
it
can
not
be
praysed
/
and
therfore
virgynyte
is
honoured
in
almyghty
god
.
And
Cryste
the
heede
and
the
leder
therof
and
the
fyrste
thynge
that
he
dyde
in
erthe
whan
he
became
man
he
sette
vp
his
housholde
of
virgyns
and
men
of
chastyte
for
to
serue
hym
and
his
chirche
here
in
erthe
/
as
he
was
by
virgyns
the
angels
serued
in
heuen
/
his
moder
was
and
is
perpetuall
virgyne
.
Iohan
Euangelyste
his
Secretary
a
virgyne
.
Iohan
the
Baptyst
a
virgyne
.
Ieremye
the
prophete
a
virgyne
/
and
angeles
in
heuen
virgyns
and
Innumerable
there
syngynge
and
folowynge
the
lombe
of
god
the
seconde
persone
/
and
euer
newe
songes
of
Ioye
and
glorye
.
The
angels
of
heuen
honoureth
virgyns
as
theyr
brethern
and
systern
And
as
it
is
wryten
(
Apocal.
xix
)
The
angell
of
god
wolde
not
suffre
saynt
Iohan
Euangelyste
to
worshyppe
hym
/
for
loue
he
was
a
virgyne
as
he
was
and
angell
and
man
of
the
erthe
.
And
therfore
Saynt
Bernarde
sayth
.
What
is
more
full
of
beaute
than
is
chastyte
(
Quid
castitate
decorius
.
Que
mundum
de
inmundo
conceptum
semine
de
hoste
domesticum
de
homine
angelum
facit
)
The
angels
worshypped
saynt
Agnes
and
cladde
hyr
in
a
garment
of
chastyte
/
crowned
saynt
Cecylye
/
saynt
Agas
shewed
hyr
holynesse
/
saynt
Katheryne
buryed
/
and
delyuered
from
deth
Susanne
.
And
as
it
is
wryten
Numeri
.xxxi.
(
Omnes
feminas
virgines
reseruare
alias
omnes
iubentur
interfici
)
That
is
to
saye
.
That
where
all
the
people
sholde
be
destroyed
and
slayne
for
synne
/
yet
god
almyghty
commaunded
to
spare
virgyns
.
And
therfore
sayth
saynt
Ancelme
(
Don
est
salus
nisi
quem
tu
virgo
peperisti
)
Saynt
Margarete
hadde
the
deuyll
vnder
hyr
feete
and
bounde
hym
/
and
he
cryed
&
sayd
/
leue
ye
yonge
mayde
ye
destroye
me
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
Saynt
Iulyan
bette
hym
and
putte
hym
to
grete
rebuke
/
and
therfore
the
deuyll
worshyppeth
virgynyte
as
it
is
radde
in
Thobye
the
sixte
chapytre
.
For
ryght
as
the
deuyll
hath
power
of
all
vnclene
lyuers
/
ryght
soo
he
honoureth
virgyns
and
feereth
theym
bycause
of
the
angelles
.
And
therfore
Saynt
Iohan
Crysostomus
sayth
(
Castitas
est
res
angelica
per
quam
solum
singulariter
homines
angelis
assimulantur
)
And
that
angels
haue
in
heuen
by
felycyte
.
A
man
or
a
woman
beynge
theyr
in
virgynyte
haue
by
grace
and
by
grete
labour
.
Virgynyte
by
grace
hath
dyuerse
preuyleges
.
Fyrste
it
replenyssheth
paradyse
(
tricesimasecunda
questione
prima
ca.
Nupcie
)
The
seconde
that
virgynyte
is
a
vertue
that
man
oonly
may
please
god
with
fayth
(
in
aut●
.
de
leuo
.
F.
Scimus
colla
.iij.
the
.iij.
)
It
is
the
begynnynge
of
other
vertues
(
In
aut●
.
quomon
op.
ep̄i
.
F.
neque
autem
sacras
.
the
.iiij.
)
That
oonly
amonge
wymmen
a
virgyn
is
to
be
consecrate
.xxv.
di.
Sicucius
.
the
.v.
)
Virgyns
martyrs
and
there
other
/
and
hath
(
Aureolam
tricesimasecunda
questione
quinta
.
Si
paulus
)
For
as
matrymony
replenyssheth
the
erthe
with
childern
/
ryght
so
a
virgyne
replenyssheth
paradyse
(
tricesimasecunda
questione
.i.
Nupcie
)
Moders
of
childern
of
the
worlde
hath
grete
besynes
and
sorowe
for
to
brynge
forthe
theyr
childern
/
a
virgyne
is
in
quyetnesse
and
bryngeth
forthe
hyr
children
in
grete
Ioye
as
it
is
wryten
(
Mathei
.xxij.
Que
parate
erant
intrauerunt
cum
eo
ad
nupcias
)
And
as
it
is
wryten
(
Canticorum
secundo
.
Sicut
lilium
inter
spinas
sic
amicamea
inter
filias
)
Virgynyte
is
lykened
vnto
a
lely
the
leuys
of
the
lely
that
conserued
the
beaute
therof
is
sobrenesse
of
mete
and
drynke
/
the
contrarye
therof
is
shewed
in
Loth
beynge
dronken
fyled
his
owne
doughters
(
Genesis
decimonono
.xv.
q.
i.
Inebriauerunt
)
Iheronimus
(
Uirgo
binum
fugiat
pro
veneno
)
As
who
sayth
/
a
virgyne
sholde
hate
wyne
as
venym
.
¶
Custos
.
YE
muste
also
be
a
custos
/
a
keper
of
all
suche
thynges
as
this
daye
shall
be
delyuered
vnto
you
in
the
name
of
your
spowse
&
folowe
him
therin
.
For
and
ye
kepe
not
all
thynges
in
theyr
beynge
as
he
hath
made
theym
/
they
sholde
forthwith
be
destroyed
/
and
therof
Dauyd
sayth
(
Nisi
dominus
custodierit
ciuitatem
&c.
)
So
ye
muste
kepe
the
tresour
of
your
spowse
Cryste
perteynynge
to
his
fayth
&
to
haue
in
your
remembraunce
&
wyll
to
kepe
the
foure
thynges
that
shall
be
delyuerd
vnto
you
this
daye
/
your
veyle
&
your
mantyll
both
beynge
of
blake
&
a
rynge
with
a
lyght
of
waxe
berynge
in
your
honde
/
and
in
kepynge
of
thyse
it
shal
be
shewed
as
ye
loue
your
husbonde
.
This
veyle
and
mantyll
remembred
ryght
well
the
virgyne
saynt
Agnes
whan
she
sayd
(
Posuit
signum
in
faciem
mean
vt
nullum
amatorem
preter
cum
admittam
)
That
is
to
saye
.
He
hath
couerd
my
soule
Inwarde
and
myn
heede
with
a
veyle
/
that
and
yf
I
wyll
loue
ony
man
better
than
hym
I
shall
goo
to
the
colour
of
my
veyle
and
that
is
euerlastynge
deth
.
In
lyke
wyse
she
shewed
that
hyr
spowse
Cryste
Ihu
had
Indued
hyr
with
a
garment
all
sette
with
precyous
stones
/
that
is
to
saye
/
with
charyte
/
fayth
hope
/
hum●●●●●
/
obedyence
/
abstynence
/
&
prayer
/
&
Inbroudred
a●●●hyse
f●●●●
vertues
in
the
blake
garmente
of
her
body
and
soule
here
knytte
togydre
/
whiche
may
euery
vertuous
persone
dayly
vse
and
encrease
to
his
rewarde
by
grace
and
free
wyll
that
be
geuen
vnto
hym
yf
he
wyll
seke
therfore
.
And
therfore
the
sayd
sayut
Agnes
songe
&
sayd
to
all
virgynes
(
Induit
me
d●s
ciclade
auro
detexta
)
(
Anulus
)
Also
I
haue
by
the
auctoryte
geuen
vnto
me
by
Cryste
Ihu
to
delyuer
vnto
you
this
daye
a
rynge
in
token
of
maryage
Indyssolyble
to
be
made
betwix
you
&
hym
.
For
as
saynt
Poul
sayth
/
ye
muste
herafter
remembre
no
thynge
but
that
is
godly
/
&
therfore
the
sayd
saynt
Agnes
cryed
with
a
grete
voyce
agaynst
the
deuyll
&
hym
that
tempted
hyr
to
vnclenly
desyres
sayenge
(
Discite
a
me
pabulum
mortis
.
quia
ab
ali●●
amatore
preuenta
sum
)
And
shewed
vnto
hym
and
vnto
all
the
people
with
a
mery
voyce
(
Anulo
suo
subornauit
me
dominus
noster
ihesus
cristus
et
tanquam
sponsam
decorauit
me
corona
)
That
is
to
saye
.
All
the
pleasures
and
temptacyons
of
the
worlde
departe
from
me
/
for
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
with
his
rynge
hath
wedde
me
and
hath
crowned
me
with
a
crowne
of
euerlastynge
Ioye
yf
I
kepe
truly
my
loue
&
spowsage
vnto
hym
.
¶
Lumen
.
ALso
remembre
the
lyght
that
ye
brynge
with
you
/
that
sygnefyeth
Cryste
Ihesu
that
is
(
Uera
lux
que
illuminat
omnem
hominem
venientem
in
hunc
mundum
)
Whos
fayth
by
his
chirche
taught
you
ye
muste
entyerly
kepe
&
se
your
lyght
go
not
out
but
be
brennynge
in
your
soule
and
in
your
mynde
by
the
blessyd
Incarnacyon
/
passyon
/
resurreccyon
/
and
the
moost
blessyd
lyfe
of
our
sauyour
Cryste
Ihesu
/
and
that
ye
falle
in
none
erthely
synne
/
heresye
nor
errours
by
ony
mannes
techynge
/
nor
dyspute
not
the
rules
of
your
relygyon
/
but
with
all
reuerence
and
obedyence
that
ye
may
do
ye
take
theym
/
obeye
theym
/
and
obserue
theym
.
And
what
so
euer
your
abbesse
or
the
rewlers
of
your
relygyon
commaunde
you
to
do
/
byleue
it
is
for
the
helth
of
your
soule
and
accordynge
to
your
relygyon
/
and
honour
and
loue
theym
as
your
fader
and
moder
/
ye
must
be
pacyent
amonge
your
systers
and
suffre
theym
/
ye
muste
be
meke
/
ye
muste
ete
and
drynke
suche
metes
and
drynkes
as
ye
be
commaunded
/
and
whan
ye
haue
not
halfe
slept
ynough
ye
muste
ryse
/
ye
muste
synge
in
your
course
&
ordre
with
your
systers
/
and
take
no
hede
though
your
voyce
be
not
moost
swetest
and
clere
/
soo
ye
haue
a
swete
deuocyon
/
ye
muste
serue
your
systers
and
wesshe
theyr
feete
/
for
Cryst
Ihesu
to
whom
ye
shall
be
spowsed
vnto
was
obedyent
to
his
fader
and
suffred
deth
/
and
wesshed
also
he
god
and
man
the
feete
of
his
dyscyples
poore
fysshers
.
¶
Nazarena
.
ALso
ye
muste
be
Nazarena
/
that
it
to
saye
/
deseuered
from
the
worlde
/
as
Ihesus
Nazarenus
sayth
hymself
(
Regnum
meum
non
est
in
hoc
mundo
)
But
though
your
body
be
here
in
this
worlde
corporally
/
your
mynde
&
your
soule
to
be
with
Cryste
Ihesu
/
and
soo
take
the
worlde
in
all
thynge
therin
and
saye
with
saynt
Poull
.
The
worlde
is
to
me
a
payne
/
and
I
to
the
worlde
/
my
Ioye
is
oonly
in
Cryste
crucefyed
.
So
syster
your
pleasure
and
conuersacyon
muste
oonly
be
in
the
crosse
of
Cryste
/
that
is
penaunce
/
in
fastynge
/
prayer
/
and
mortyfycacyon
of
your
enemy
the
flesshe
/
and
let
it
not
haue
his
wyll
/
kepe
you
within
your
monasterye
and
departe
not
therfro
(
.xvi.
q.
i.
placuit
.
n.
)
For
ryght
as
a
fysshe
deyeth
that
is
without
water
ryght
soo
a
man
or
woman
of
Relygyon
beynge
without
theyr
cloyster
is
deed
in
theyr
soules
.
Remembre
the
storye
of
the
bybell
that
Dena
Iacobs
doughter
she
wolde
not
kepe
hyr
within
/
not
close
as
she
was
commaunded
/
but
wolde
go
forth
amonge
yonge
people
and
soo
was
corrupte
and
rauysshed
/
and
therof
folowed
Infenyte
manslaughter
and
murdre
.
Moyses
beynge
in
monte
of
Relygyon
he
spake
with
god
/
without
he
spake
but
with
man
(
.xxxvi.
di.
c.
Si
)
A
woman
of
Relygyon
or
a
man
beynge
in
theyr
cloyster
in
prayer
they
speke
with
god
/
without
they
speke
with
the
deuyll
/
&
therfore
an
holy
fader
sayd
/
ryght
as
an
henne
that
hath
egges
leueth
hyr
egges
shall
of
them
neuer
come
chekens
So
shall
none
be
good
Relygyous
man
or
woman
that
leueth
the
place
of
Relygyon
.
And
as
it
is
rad
in
(
Vitis
patrum
)
Ther
was
a
monke
by
longe
space
tempted
by
the
deuyll
&
he
resysted
hym
sore
/
at
the
laste
he
brought
the
monke
to
the
dore
where
he
sholde
departe
from
the
place
of
Relygyon
/
he
made
there
a
crosse
and
cryed
to
the
deuyll
/
thou
haste
pulled
me
hyder
/
pulle
me
now
ferder
&
thou
canst
but
it
shall
neuer
lye
in
thy
power
.
¶
Uncta
.
ALso
remembre
ye
be
anoynted
in
your
Baptyme
&
confyrmacyon
and
now
to
be
made
perfyte
Nazarena
Crystis
wyf
of
Nazareth
ye
shal
be
sanctefyed
&
consecrate
&
so
your
name
to
be
put
in
the
grete
kalender
amonge
the
virgyns
&
spowses
of
Cryst
Ihu
in
heuen
(
Ihesus
nazarenus
was
vnctus
oleo
leticie
pre
oibus
partibus
suis
)
And
that
geuen
vnto
his
manhone
to
anoynte
with
vertue
&
grace
in
this
present
lyf
/
&
with
euerlastynge
Ioye
his
louers
&
seruauntes
/
&
therfore
saynt
Iohn
Baptyst
sayth
(
Nos
omnes
recepimus
grām
in
plenitudine
eius
)
No
thynge
we
haue
suffycyent
of
ourself
but
all
cometh
of
his
grace
/
&
therfore
yf
ye
wyll
be
anoynted
with
this
noble
oyle
of
mercy
and
grace
in
this
present
lyf
&
to
come
to
be
anoynted
in
euerlastynge
Ioye
.
Ye
must
do
that
was
commaunded
in
the
gospell
by
the
wyse
ma●dens
that
sholde
be
spowsed
vnto
Cryste
●●●●nge
〈◊〉
et
emite
oleum
)
Go
and
seke
vnto
ye
may
bye
&
haue
this
oyle
of
grace
/
and
therfore
the
noble
lady
sayd
to
all
hyr
gentylwymmen
as
it
is
wryten
in
the
boke
of
all
songes
(
In
odore
vnguentorum
tuorum
currimus
)
That
is
to
saye
/
ryght
as
an
hounde
that
hath
founde
blood
or
percynge
of
a
beest
stryken
&
seketh
&
ceaseth
not
tyll
he
fynde
it
.
So
our
sauyour
Cryste
Ihesu
was
wounded
&
loste
blood
&
percyd
of
his
blessyd
lyf
in
this
worlde
/
to
euery
man
to
taste
&
folowe
it
tyll
he
fynde
hym
.
Ye
shal
not
syster
nede
to
seke
ferre
tyll
ye
fynde
percyd
&
sauour
/
as
Dauyd
sayth
(
Sicut
cernus
ad
fontes
aquarum
)
Of
this
swete
oyntement
of
Cryste
for
he
sayth
by
his
prophete
Dauyd
(
Prope
est
dns
oibus
inuocantibus
eum
)
He
is
redy
to
euery
body
whan
he
is
called
vppon
.
Example
therof
.
Mary
Magdaleyn
she
brought
with
hyr
oyntement
of
denocyon
&
sought
hym
and
therfore
soone
she
founde
hym
.
Soo
it
is
your
dewte
to
seke
Cryste
Ihesu
to
whom
ye
shal
be
wedded
nother
at
Nazareth
Bedleem
nor
Iherusalem
/
but
ye
shall
fynde
hym
here
within
your
owne
chirche
the
same
god
and
man
Cryste
Ihesu
/
and
for
your
very
loue
&
contemplacyon
go
to
an
awter
within
your
chirche
/
or
to
anymage
of
our
lady
where
Gabryell
saluteth
hyr
/
Remembre
the
mercy
&
the
loue
that
the
fader
of
heuen
bare
to
all
mankynde
sent
his
angell
to
a
yonge
mayde
/
&
of
hyr
clene
blood
of
virgynyte
god
&
man
was
Ioyned
togydre
.
Thenne
go
to
an
other
awter
or
place
that
sheweth
the
Natyuyte
of
Cryst
&
how
that
he
lyeth
in
grete
pouerte
in
haye
&
betwix
two
beestes
&
hath
no
comforte
but
this
yonge
mayde
his
moder
to
be
fedde
of
hyr
breste
.
And
so
for
to
go
to
other
places
with
in
your
chirche
for
your
deuocyon
of
remembraunce
of
his
passyon
.
And
specyally
ones
/
twyes
/
or
thryes
of
the
daye
that
ye
seke
hym
in
your
mynde
deuoutely
at
the
mount
of
Caluarye
.
That
is
that
ye
shall
knele
before
the
crucyfixe
where
his
ymage
is
made
remembrynge
how
he
god
&
man
that
neuer
had
offended
but
toke
mannes
nature
here
for
the
grete
loue
&
redempcyon
therof
&
put
vnto
so
paynfull
and
shamefull
deth
in
the
myddes
of
the
worlde
his
moder
beyng
present
/
his
hondes
&
his
feet
nayled
vnto
the
tree
/
his
herte
stryken
thorugh
/
and
yet
in
all
this
payne
his
charyte
was
so
moche
that
he
prayed
vnto
his
fader
of
heuen
to
forgeue
all
them
that
so
vyolently
&
so
wrongfully
put
hym
to
deth
/
and
desyred
of
his
fader
that
all
mankynde
sholde
be
forgeuen
of
theyr
trespaces
/
for
the
offence
of
our
fyrste
formed
fader
Adam
&
the
gates
of
heuen
to
be
opened
to
all
them
that
wolde
byleue
in
hym
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
to
remembre
some
deuoute
place
of
his
Resurreccyon
&
blessyd
Ascensyon
/
and
how
he
shall
come
to
make
an
ende
of
this
present
worlde
&
deme
it
.
(
Per
ignem
)
And
calle
you
&
all
mankynde
to
accompte
of
theyr
demea●●●
concernynge
his
fayth
/
&
of
you
how
ye
haue
kep●e
your
spowsage
&
promyse
made
vnto
hym
.
And
yf
ye
syster
wel
&
Iustely
&
truly
obserue
your
name
that
ye
shall
be
called
by
after
your
husbonde
/
as
Nazarena
/
that
is
to
saye
(
virgulti
)
fayre
braunches
full
of
fruytes
of
vertue
in
your
Relygyon
&
floures
of
virgynyte
&
keper
of
commaundementes
of
your
spowse
/
despysynge
pleasures
&
pompe
of
the
worlde
/
leuynge
it
vnto
the
folysshe
maydens
of
the
worlde
/
and
anoynte
your
soule
by
holy
lyuynge
and
so
be
(
Sancta
)
as
Cryste
is
(
Sauctus
)
&
consecrate
your
soule
to
almyghty
god
/
sayenge
vnto
him
with
the
holy
mayde
&
martyr
saynt
Agnes
and
saynt
Awdry
(
Nichil
in
terris
desydero
preter
te
)
I
desyre
nothynge
in
this
present
lyfe
but
the
Ihesu
to
be
my
keper
&
defender
/
&
to
haue
the
pryncypally
in
my
mynde
&
thought
/
and
than
doubte
ye
no
thynge
systers
/
but
it
shall
be
sayd
vnto
you
&
euerychone
of
you
.
(
Unguentum
effusum
nomen
tuum
ideo
adolescentile
dilexerunt
te
nimis
)
The
angels
of
heuen
beynge
thyse
fayre
yonge
maydens
&
gentylwymmen
.
For
ye
bere
the
name
of
Nazareth
that
is
theyr
maker
&
lorde
wyll
make
Infenyte
myrthe
&
defende
and
kepe
your
persone
&
not
departe
from
tyll
they
synge
this
songe
moost
blessyd
that
may
be
sayd
vnto
you
(
Ueni
sponsa
xpi
accipe
coronam
quam
tibi
p̄paranit
in
eternum
)
That
is
to
saye
come
mayde
Nazarene
Crystis
spowse
to
present
&
receyue
for
thy
rewarde
the
specyall
crowne
of
glory
called
(
Auriola
)
that
I
wyll
not
geue
nor
rewarde
with
/
but
my
specyall
louers
martyrs
virgyns
&
prechers
/
&
that
ye
may
so
do
here
that
ye
may
receyue
this
noble
crowne
I
beseche
almyghty
god
for
his
grete
mercy
Amen
.
¶
Here
endeth
an
exhortacyon
made
to
Relygyous
systers
in
the
tyme
of
theyr
consecracyon
by
the
Reuerende
fader
in
god
Iohan
Alcok
bysshop
of
Ely.