orwh godes grace,
a ful swete odour; 600
So swote felede ?ei neuer non,
as wyde as ?ei hedden gon,
of no spicerie.
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603
?enne worschupeden heo Alle with o steuene,
Iesu, godus sone of heuene,
and his Modur Marie. 606
Iesu crist, ?orwh ?e prei?ere
of him ?at we haue of told here,
?if ?i wille hit be, 609
Graunt vs alle god endyng,
and in heuene a wonyng.
AMEN par Charite. 612
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VITA
CUIUSDAM
SANCTI VIRI NOMINE ALEX.
OPTIMA VITA.
Sitte? stille wi?outen strif,
And I schal telle ?ou ?e lif
Of an holy man. 3
Alex was his ry?tte name;
To serue god ?oute him no schame,
& ?erof neuere he ne blan. 6
his fader was a gret lording
Of rome, a kynges euening,
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& hy?tte sire Eufemian. 9
Pore men to clo?e & fede,
In al rome, ?at riche ?
