¶
An
exhortacyon
made
to
Relygyous
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
virgyn
Mary
in
humanyte
Cryste
Iesu
of
Nazareth
of
the
one
partye
.
And
.
A.B.
of
the
thother
partye
/
that
yf
ony
man
or
woman
can
shewe
ony
lawfull
Impedyment
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
Iesu
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
spousage
bytwene
the
sayd
sone
of
almyghty
god
and
you
/
whiche
spousage
must
be
of
your
partye
desyred
with
all
your
hole
herte
and
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
wyf
.
How
moche
be
ye
bounde
vnto
hym
that
wyll
consent
that
ye
be
maryed
vnto
him
so
grete
a
prynce
&
almyghty
/
&
ye
a
wretche
his
creature
&
of
a
poore
lynage
.
For
the
common
vsage
is
kynges
to
mary
togyder
.
Dukes
and
Erles
togyder
/
and
poore
people
togyder
/
and
seldome
seen
the
ryche
and
the
poore
mary
togyder
/
and
yet
this
moost
myghty
prynce
lorde
of
heuen
&
of
erthe
for
the
loue
he
hereth
vnto
you
to
make
you
his
quene
his
faer
of
heuen
to
be
your
fader
his
moder
to
be
yours
/
&
so
by
this
maryage
all
your
kynred
shall
be
of
cosynage
by
affynyte
to
the
fader
of
heuen
/
our
lady
all
the
angels
with
all
the
hole
Genelogy
of
Cryst
/
to
whiche
honour
and
excellence
no
carnall
spousage
coude
exalte
you
.
Therfore
yf
ye
contynue
his
faythfull
&
true
spouse
commyttynge
your
mynde
your
wyll
&
all
your
werkes
to
obserue
his
commaundementes
/
your
rewarde
shall
be
as
in
your
Ioynter
&
dowery
excede
all
rewardes
that
can
be
thought
and
may
be
gyuen
vnto
man
.
FYrst
syster
yf
ye
wyll
be
spoused
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
spoused
to
this
myghty
prynce
/
ye
must
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
Iesus
Nazarenus
.
And
soo
ye
muste
be
called
Nazarena
.
It
is
wryten
(
Nazarei
candidores
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
anoynted
holy
and
consecrate
quene
/
for
thyse
propertees
amonge
other
hath
your
spouse
.
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
Iesu
of
Nazareth
that
is
charyte
(
Quia
deus
caritas
est
)
And
who
so
euer
is
not
in
charyte
he
departeth
hymselfe
from
almyghty
god
.
Soo
ye
muste
loue
your
spouse
Iesu
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
/
than
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
stndet
eligantes
faci
es
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
vpon
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
wyf
and
taketh
hede
of
his
werkes
and
dedes
as
our
lorde
your
spouse
wyll
take
hede
of
you
For
ye
can
thynke
no
thought
but
he
knoweth
it
/
nor
speke
no
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
Cryst
Iesu
is
called
(
Flos
campi
)
The
floure
of
Nazareth
/
the
beaute
of
this
excedeth
all
other
vertues
&
it
is
soo
noble
a
tresour
that
it
can
not
be
praysed
/
and
therfore
virgynyte
is
honoured
in
almyghty
god
.
And
Cryste
the
heed
and
the
leder
therof
and
the
fyrste
thynge
that
he
dyde
in
erthe
whan
he
became
man
he
sette
vp
his
husholde
of
virgyns
&
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
.
Ieremy
the
prophete
a
virgyne
/
and
angelles
in
heuen
virgyns
&
Innumerable
there
syngynge
and
folowynge
the
lombe
of
god
the
seconde
persone
/
and
neuer
newe
songes
of
Ioye
and
glorye
.
The
angels
of
heuen
honoureth
virgyns
as
theyr
brethern
&
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
&
man
of
the
erthe
And
therfore
Saynt
Bernarde
sayth
.
What
is
more
full
of
beaute
than
is
chastyte
(
Quid
castitate
decorius
.
Que
mundum
de
immundo
conceptum
semine
de
hoste
domesticum
de
homine
angelum
facit
)
The
angels
worshypped
saynt
Agnes
and
cladde
her
in
a
garment
of
chastyte
/
crowned
saynt
Cecylye
/
saynt
Agas
shewed
her
holynesse
/
saynt
Katheryne
buryed
/
&
delyuered
from
deth
Susanne
.
And
as
it
is
wryten
Numery
.xxxi.
(
Omnes
feminas
virgines
reseruare
alias
onnes
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
therfor
sayth
saynt
Ancelme
(
Non
est
salus
nisi
quem
tu
virgo
peperisti
)
Saynt
Margarete
hadde
the
deuyll
vnder
her
feet
and
bounde
hym
/
and
he
cryed
&
sayd
/
leue
ye
yonge
mayde
ye
destroye
me
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
Saynt
Iulyan
bette
hym
and
put
hym
to
grete
rebuke
/
and
therfore
the
deuyll
worshypped
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
ꝑ
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
only
may
please
god
with
fayth
(
in
aut
.
de
leuo
.
s.
Scimus
colla
.iij.
the
.iij.
)
It
is
the
begynnynge
of
other
vertues
(
In
aut
.
quomon
op.
ep̄i
.
s.
neque
autem
sacras
.
the
.iiij.
)
That
only
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
replenysshed
the
erthe
with
children
/
ryght
so
a
virgyne
replenysshed
paradyse
(
tricesimasecunda
questione
.i.
Nupcie
)
Moders
of
children
of
the
worlde
hath
grete
besynes
and
sorowe
for
to
brynge
forth
theyr
children
/
a
virgyn
is
in
quyetnesse
and
bryngeth
forth
her
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
amica
mea
inter
filias
)
Virgynyte
is
lykened
vnto
a
lyly
the
leuys
of
the
lyly
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
)
Ieronimus
(
Uirgo
vinum
fugiat
pro
veneno
)
As
who
sayth
/
a
virgyn
sholde
hate
wyne
as
venym
.
¶
Custos
.
ALso
ye
must
be
a
custos
/
a
keper
of
all
suche
thynges
as
this
daye
shall
be
delyuered
vnto
you
in
the
name
of
your
spouse
&
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
must
kepe
the
tresour
of
your
spouse
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
mantell
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
mantell
remembred
ryght
well
the
virgyn
saynt
Agnes
whan
she
sayd
(
Posuit
signum
in
faciem
mean
et
nullum
amatorem
preter
eum
admittam
)
That
is
to
saye
.
He
hath
couerd
my
soule
Inwarde
and
myn
heed
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
her
spouse
Cryste
Iesu
had
Indued
her
with
a
garment
all
sette
with
precyous
stones
/
that
is
to
saye
/
with
charyte
/
fayth
hope
/
humylyte
/
obedyens
/
abstynence
/
&
prayer
/
&
Inbroudred
all
thyse
fayr
vertues
in
the
blake
garmente
of
her
body
and
soule
here
knytte
togyder
/
whiche
may
euery
vertuous
persone
dayly
vse
and
encrease
to
his
rewarde
by
grace
and
free
wyl
that
be
gyuen
vnto
hym
yf
he
wyll
seke
therfore
.
And
therfore
the
sayd
saynt
Agnes
songe
&
sayd
to
all
virgynes
(
Induit
me
dns
ciclade
auro
detexta
)
(
Anulum
)
Also
I
haue
by
the
auctoryte
gyuen
vnto
me
by
Cryst
Iesu
to
delyuer
vnto
you
this
daye
a
rynge
in
token
of
maryage
Indyssolyble
to
be
made
betwix
you
&
hym
.
For
as
saynt
Poule
sayth
Ye
must
herafter
remembre
no
thynge
but
that
is
godly
/
&
therfore
the
sayd
saynt
Agnes
cryed
with
a
grete
voyce
agaynst
the
deuyll
&
hym
that
tempted
her
to
vnclenly
desyres
sayenge
(
Discite
a
me
pabulum
mortis
.
quia
ab
alium
amatore
preuenta
sum
)
And
shewed
vnto
hym
and
vnto
all
the
people
with
a
mery
voyce
(
Anulo
suo
subornauit
me
dominus
noster
Iesus
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
Iesu
Cryste
with
his
rynge
hath
wedde
me
and
hath
crowned
me
with
a
crowne
of
euerlastynge
Ioye
yf
I
kepe
truly
my
loue
&
spousage
vnto
hym
.
¶
Lumen
.
ALso
remembre
the
lyght
that
ye
brynge
with
you
/
that
sygnefyeth
Cryste
Iesu
.
That
is
(
Uera
lux
que
illuminat
omnem
hominem
venien
tem
in
hunc
mundum
)
Whos
fayth
by
his
chirche
taught
you
ye
must
entyerly
kepe
&
see
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
lyf
of
our
sauyour
Cryste
Iesu
/
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
/
&
obserue
them
.
And
whatsoeuer
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
muste
be
pacyent
amonge
your
systers
&
suffre
theym
/
ye
muste
be
meke
ye
muste
ete
and
drynke
suche
metes
and
drynkes
as
ye
be
commaunded
/
and
whan
ye
haue
not
half
slept
ynough
ye
must
ryse
/
ye
must
synge
in
your
course
and
ordre
with
your
systers
/
and
take
no
hede
though
your
voyce
be
not
moost
swettest
and
clere
/
so
ye
haue
a
swete
deuocyon
/
ye
must
serue
your
systers
and
wasshe
theyr
feet
/
for
Cryste
Iesu
to
whome
ye
shall
be
spoused
vnto
was
obedyent
to
his
fader
and
suffred
deth
/
and
he
god
and
man
wasshed
also
the
feet
of
his
dyscyples
poore
fysshers
.
¶
Nazarena
.
ALso
ye
must
be
Nazarena
/
that
is
to
saye
/
deseuered
from
the
worlde
/
as
Iesus
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
Iesu
/
and
so
take
the
worlde
in
all
thynge
therin
and
saye
with
Saynt
Poule
.
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
story
of
the
bybell
that
Dena
Iacobs
doughter
she
wolde
not
kepe
her
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
&
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
/
&
therfor
an
holy
fader
sayd
/
ryght
as
an
henne
that
hath
egges
leueth
her
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
last
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
hast
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
shall
be
sanctefyed
&
consecrate
&
so
your
name
to
be
put
in
the
grete
kalender
amonge
the
virgyns
&
spouses
of
Cryst
Iesu
in
heuen
(
Iesus
nazarenus
was
vnctus
oleo
leticie
pre
oibus
partibus
suis
)
And
that
gyuen
vnto
his
manhode
to
anoynte
with
vertue
&
grace
in
this
present
lyf
/
&
with
euerlastynge
Ioye
his
louers
&
seruauntes
/
&
therfor
saynt
Iohn
Baptyst
sayth
(
Nos
omnes
recipimus
grām
in
plenitudine
eius
)
No
thynge
we
haue
suffycyent
of
our self
but
all
cometh
of
his
grace
/
&
therfore
yf
ye
wyll
be
anoynted
with
this
noble
oyle
of
mercy
&
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
maydens
that
sholde
be
spoused
vnto
Cryst
sayenge
(
Ite
et
emite
oleum
)
Go
&
seke
vnto
ye
may
by
&
haue
this
oyle
of
grace
/
&
therfor
the
noble
lady
sayd
to
all
her
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
best
stryken
&
seketh
&
cesseth
not
tyll
he
fynde
it
.
So
our
sauyour
Cryste
Iesu
was
wounded
&
loste
blood
&
percyd
of
his
blessyd
lyf
in
this
worlde
/
to
euery
man
to
tast
&
folowe
it
tyll
he
fynde
him
.
Ye
shall
not
syster
nede
to
seke
ferre
tyll
ye
fynde
percyd
&
sauour
/
as
Dauyd
sayth
(
Sicut
ceruus
ad
fontes
aquarum
)
Of
this
swete
oyntement
of
Cryst
/
for
he
sayth
by
his
prophete
Dauyd
(
Prope
est
dns
oibus
inuocantibus
eum
)
He
is
redy
to
euery
body
whan
he
is
called
vpon
.
Example
therof
.
Mary
magdaleyne
she
brought
with
her
oyntement
of
deuocion
&
sought
hym
&
therfore
soone
she
founde
hym
.
So
it
is
your
dewte
to
seke
Cryste
Iesu
to
whome
ye
shall
wedde
nother
at
Nazareth
Bedleem
nor
Ierusalem
/
but
ye
shall
fynde
hym
here
within
your
owne
chirche
the
same
god
and
man
Cryste
Iesu
and
for
your
very
loue
&
contemplacyon
go
to
an
awter
within
your
chirche
/
or
to
an
ymage
of
our
lady
where
Gabryell
saluted
her
.
Remembre
the
mercy
&
the
loue
that
the
fader
of
heuen
bare
to
all
mankynde
sente
his
angell
to
a
yonge
mayde
.
and
of
her
clene
blood
of
virgynyte
god
and
man
was
Ioyned
togyder
.
Than
go
to
an
other
awter
or
place
that
sheweth
the
Natyuyte
of
Cryst
/
and
how
that
he
lyeth
in
grete
pouerte
in
haye
&
betwix
two
bestes
&
had
no
comforte
but
this
yonge
mayde
his
moder
to
be
fedde
of
her
brest
.
And
soo
for
to
go
to
other
places
within
your
chirche
for
your
deuocyon
&
remembraunce
of
his
passyon
.
And
specyally
one
/
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
befor
the
crucyfixe
where
his
ymage
is
made
remembrynge
how
he
god
&
man
that
neuer
had
offended
but
tooke
mannes
nature
here
for
the
grete
loue
&
redempcyon
therof
&
put
vnto
so
paynfull
and
shamefull
deth
in
the
myddes
of
the
worlde
his
moder
beynge
present
/
his
hondes
&
his
feet
nayled
vnto
the
tree
.
his
herte
stryken
thrugh
/
and
yet
in
all
this
payne
his
charyte
was
so
moche
that
he
prayed
vnto
his
fader
of
heuen
to
forgyue
all
them
that
so
vyolently
&
so
wrongfully
put
hym
to
deth
/
and
desyred
of
his
fader
that
all
mankynde
sholde
be
forgyuen
of
theyr
trespaces
/
for
the
offence
of
our
fyrst
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
/
&
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
demeaūce
concernynge
his
fayth
.
&
of
you
how
ye
haue
kepte
your
spousage
&
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
spouse
/
despysynge
pleasures
&
pompe
of
the
worlde
/
leuynge
it
vnto
the
folysshe
maydens
of
the
worlde
/
&
anoynte
your
soule
by
holy
lyuynge
/
&
so
be
(
Sancta
)
as
Cryst
is
(
Sanctus
)
&
consecrate
your
soule
to
almyghty
god
/
sayenge
vnto
hym
with
the
holy
mayde
&
martyr
saynt
Agnes
and
saynt
Awdry
(
Nichil
in
terris
desidero
preter
te
)
I
desyre
nothynge
in
this
present
lyf
but
the
Iesu
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
fayr
yonge
maydens
&
gentylwymmen
.
For
ye
bere
the
name
of
Nazareth
that
is
theyr
maker
&
lorde
wyll
make
Infenyte
myrthe
&
defende
&
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
preparauit
ineternum
)
That
is
to
saye
come
mayde
Nezarene
Crystis
spouse
to
present
&
receyue
for
thy
rewarde
the
specyall
crowne
of
glory
called
(
Auriola
)
that
I
wyll
not
gyue
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
.