mercy for my sake With the sinnes of the world be at debate and strife And vnto grace my heauenly father will you take All they whom the law condemneth for synne By faith in me I saue and iustifie I am come sinners by repentance to winne Christe speaketh to Mary Like as the Prophet before did prophecie Thou woman with mercy I do thee preuent If thou canst in the Sonne of God beleue And for thy former lyfe be sory and repent All thy sinnes and offences I doe forgeue Infidelitie Who is the sonne of God sir of whom do ye talke Which hath this power wherof you do boast It is best for you out of this countrey to walke And neuer more be sene after in this coast The sonne of God quod he This is a pride in dede Trowest thou that the father can suffer this They come of Abrahams stocke and holy sede And thou saiest that they beleue all amisse Christ. Auoide out of this woman thou Infidelitie With the .vii. diuels which haue hir possessed I banish you hence by the power of my diuinitie For to saluation I haue hir dressed Infidelitie runneth away Mary falleth flat downe Cry all thus without the doore and roare terribly Diuels O Iesus the Sonne of God euer liuing Why comest thou before the tyme vs to torment In no person for thee we can haue any abidyng Out vpon thee the sonne of God omnipotent Christ. Arise woman and thanke the father of heauen Which with his mercy hath thee preuented By his power I haue reiâ—cted from the spirits seuen Which with vnbelief haue thy soule tormented Mary Blessed be thy name O father celestiall Honor and glory be giuen to thee world without end O Lord doest thou regard thus a womaÌ„ terrestriall To thee what tong is able worthy thanks to repend O what a synfull wretche Lord haue I bene Haue mercy on me Lord for thy names sake So greuous a sinner before this day was neuer sene Uouchsafe therfore compassion on me to take Iesus Christ. Canst thou beleue in God the maker of all thing And in his onely sonne whom he hath sent Mary I beleue in one God Lord and heauenly kyng And in thee his onely sonne with hearty intent Good Lord I confesse that thou art omnipotent Helpe my slender beliefe and infirmitie My faith Lord is waueryng and insufficient StreÌ„gth it I pray the with the power of thy maiesty No man can come to me that is in me beleue Christ â–ª Faith repeÌ„taÌ„ce entreth Except my father draw hym by his spirite Behold Faith and Repentance to thee here I geue With all other vertues to thy health requisite Note well the power of Gods omnipotencie Faith That soule which of late was a place of deuils He hath made a place for him self by his clemencie Purgyng from thence the multitude of euils Repentance The mercy of Christ thought it not sufficient To forgeue hir synnes and deuils to pourge But geueth hir grace to be penitent That is hir soule euer after this day to scourge The vertue of Repentance I do represent Which is a true turnyng of the whole lyfe and state Unto the will of the lord God omnipotent Sorowing for the sinnes past with displesure hate That is to say all the inward thoughts of the hart And all the imaginations of the mynde Which were occupied euill by Sathans arte Must hence forth be turned after an other kynd Dauid my father on his synnes did alway thinke Howe horrible they were in God almighties sight Teares were his sustenance yea both meat drinke His hole meditation was in heauen both day night So that Repentance is described in Scripture To be a returnyng from syn with all the soule hart And all the life tyme in repentyng to endure Declaring the same with the senes in euery part As thus like as the eyes haue ben vaynly spent Upon worldly and carnall delectations So henceforth to wepyng and teares must be bent And wholly giuen to godly contemplations Likewise as the eares haue ben open alway To here the blasphemyng of Gods holy name And fylthy talkyng euermore night and day Nowe they must be turned away from the same And glad to heare the Gospell of saluation How God hath mercy on them that doe call And how he is full of pitie and miseration Raisyng vp suche agayne as by synne dyd fall The tong which blasphemie hath spoken Yea and filthily to the hurt of soule and body Wherby the precepts of God haue ben broken Must hence forth praise God for his mercy daily Thus like as all the members in tymes past Haue ben seruantes of vnrighteousnesse and synne Now Repentance doth that seruice away cast And to mortifie all his lustes doth begynne True repentance neuer turneth backe agayn For he y t laieth his haÌ„d on the plough loketh away Is not apt in the kingdom of heauen to raigne Nor to be saued with my sainctes at the last day Mary O Lorde without thy grace I do here confesse That I am able to do nothyng at all Where it pleaseth thee my miserie to redresse Strength me now that hence forth I do not fall Graunt me Lord suche a perfect repentance And that I looke no more back but go forward still Put my miserie euermore into my remembrance That I may forthinke my life that hath ben so yll Fayth The holy vertue of Faith I do represent Ioyned continually with repentance For where as the person for synne is penitent There I ascertain him of helth and deliuerance Wherfore I am a certaine and sure confidence That God is mercifull for Christ Iesus sake And where as is a turnyng or penitence To mercy he will the penitent take Faith therfore is the gyft of God most excellent For it is a sure knowledge and cognition Of the good will of God omnipotent Grounded in the word of Christes erudition This faith is founded on Gods promission And most clerely to the mynde of man reuealed So that of Gods will he hath an intuition Which by the holy ghost to his heart is sealed Repentance This Faith with the word hath such propinquitie That proprely the one is not without the other Faith must be tried with the word of veritie As the chyld is by the father and mother Iesus Christ. Yea truly if this faith do from Gods word decline It is no faith but a certayn incredulitie Which causeth the mynd to waÌ„der in strange doctrine And so to fall at length into impietie Faith The word to a glasse compare we may For as it were therin Faith God doth behold Whom as in a cloude we loke vpon alway As hereafter more plainly it shal be told Mary My heart doth beleue and my mouth doth publish That my lord Iesus is the sonne of God eternall I beleue that my soule shall neuer perysh But raigne with him in his kyngdom supernall Repentance The operation of Faith is not to enquire What God is as touchyng his
vanitie In me is all vengeance enuie rankor and yre Murder warre treason and gredie desyre I conteyne the wicked vices of vsurie Dice and card playing with all kynd of iniurie What mischief was there euer yet or synne But that cupiditie dyd it first of all begynne Infidelitie There can not be a more fylthy place in hell Than that is where as cupiditie doth dwell Cupiditi Yea there is impietie the contempt of Gods lawe His worde is no more regarded than a vile strawe Pride of lyfe You contayne vices very wicked in dede But how wicked is he froÌ„ whom al syn doth procede The beginning of syn which doth maÌ„ froÌ„ god deuide Scripture calleth it nothyng els but pride For I my selfe not onely conteyne you three But all vices in you and that in euery degree Pride despiseth God and committeth idolatrie To God and man Pride is a very aduersarie I am full of boastyng arrogancie and vainglorie Enuious and of all other mens wealth right sory Pride causeth obstinacie and disobedience Yea it engendreth idlenesse and negligence The truth of Gods prophets through tiraÌ„ts of pride Hath euer vnto this day ben cast asyde The men of God pride hath spitefully reputed And with tirants alway the same persecuted Pride would neuer suffer any vertue to raigne But oppressed it with great malice and disdaine In a short summe fewe wordes you shall know all Pride caused Lucifer from heauen to hell to fall Yea pride lost mankynd and did him so infect That God from his fauour dyd him away reiect Where as pride is a token it is euident That all other vices be euen there resident Infidelitie Where as you and all your ofspryng doth dwell There is a place for all the diuels in hell And playne it is where as is suche fylthy sinne There euen in this world their hell doth begynne By such time as with vs Mary be furnished With the deuill him self she shall be replenished Pride In our tragedie we may not vse our owne names For that would turne to al our rebukes and shames Infidelitie Pride with all thy abhominable store At this tyme must be called Nobilitie and honor Cupiditi Uery well for these women that be vicious Are alwais high mynded and ambicious Concupiscence â–ª Neuer woman that could play a harlots part Was either humble or yet meke in hart Infidelitie Yea and the same loued alway cupiditie Therfore thy name shall be called Utilitie Pryde For hym a better name you could not expresse For yll disposed women are alway mercylesse Car. concupisceÌ„ce They are alwais scraping clawing gathering To maintaine their liues in wickednesse and synne Infidelitie Carnall concupiscence shalbe called pleasure And that pretie Marie loueth beyond all measure Pride Infidelitie may not be called infidelitie Infidelitie No we will worke with a litle more austeritie Infidelitie for diuers respectes hath names diuers Of the which some of theÌ„ to you I purpose to reherse With bishops priests scribes seniors and pharisies And with as many as be of the Iewes degrees I am called Legall Iustice commonly For why by the lawe them selues they do iustifie It is playne Infidelitie so to beleue Therfore there suche a name to my selfe I do geue I haue a garment correspondent to that name By the which I walke among them without blame With publicans and sinners of a carnall pretence I am somtime called couÌ„sel and somtime Prudence I cause them the wisedome of God to despise And for the fleshe and the world wittily to deuise Prudence before Marie my name I will call Which to my suggestions will cause hir to fall A vesture I haue here to this garment correspondeÌ„t Lo here it is a gowne I trowe conuenient Pride For our honor I pray thee heartily doe it weare Infidelitie Mary did talke with me before in this geare But bicause she shall the sooner to me apply put on a gowne a cap. I will dresse me in these garments euen by and by How thynke you by me now in this aray Mary loueth them I tell you that vse to go gay Cupiditi Then hadst thou nede to mend thy folysh couÌ„tenaÌ„ce For thou lookest like one that hath lost his remeÌ„braÌ„ce Car. concupiscece With the one eye ouermuch thou vsest to winke That thou meanest som fraude therby they wyl think He that loketh with one eie winketh with an other I would not trust say they if he were my brother Infidelitie Lyke obstinate Friers I temper my looke Which had one eie on a wench and an other on a boke Passion of God behold yonder commeth Marie See that in your tales none from other do varie Pride It is a pretie wenche that it is in dede Muche to intreate her I thynke we shall not nede Cupiditi No for I thinke she is yll inough of hir selfe She seemeth to be a proude little elfe Car. concupisceÌ„ce I pray you behold how she trimmeth her geare She would haue all well about her euery where Mary MaideÌ„s quod she there is no geÌ„tlewomaÌ„ I wene So accumbred as I am for such were neuer sene Fie on them in good faith they are to badde They would make some gentlewoman stark madde Like as I put of my geare so I do it fynde And I can not tel how oft I haue told theÌ„ my mynd By the faith of my body if they do not amende To lay them on the bones surely I do intend Infidelitie Maxima quaequae domus seruis est plena superbis Euery great house as the Poet doth say Is full of naughtie seruantes both night and day Mary You say truth sir in dede what old acquaintance Now forsoth you were out of my remembrance You haue changed your aray since I was here I am glad to see you mery and of a good chere Infidelitie And I of yours mistresse Mary with hart mynd It is a ioy to see a gentlewoman so louyng and kynd Shall I be so bold to kisse you at our metyng Mary What else it is an honest maner of greetyng Infideli â–ª Pleaseth it you to byd these gentlemen welcome Mary Yea forsoth are they heartily all and some I will kysse you all for this gentlemans sake He is a friend of myne as I do hym take Pride He is in dede you may be sure mistresse Mary There is no man lyuyng can say the contrary Cupiditi He hath ben diligent to seke vs togither And for your sake he hath caused vs to come hither Car. concupisceÌ„ce I dare say thus much that he is your friende For he loueth you with his whole heart and mynde He hath ben diligent about your cause As it had bene his owne and would neuer pause Till he had performed his desired request Mary Which I am able to say is very honest A gentle friend at so little acquaintance Will you â—ooke so much vnto my furtherance It seemeth then if by me you had ben benefited You would haue my kyndnesse gently requited Infidelitie Quo
law he teacheth a doctrine All holy Religion he doth detest The reuerend bishops and you the pharisies He calleth hipocrites and doth you reuile So he doth the doctours and scribes of all degrees â–ª Beside that the Saboth also he doth defile He vseth as great blasphemie as euer was The sonne of the lyuyng God he doth hymself call He saith that he is the very same Messias Prophecied before of the Prophets all I promise you right worshipfull Simon Your temple lawe and people shal be made captiue If in this sort he be suffred alone And you shall lose all your prerogatiue Simon We the fathers of the clergie diuers seasons About hym haue consulted together To destroy hym we haue alleaged reasons But many thyngs therin we do consider His doctrine is maruellous this is true And his workes are more maruellous doubtlesse If as yet we should chaunce hym to pursue Muche inconuenience might chaunce and distresse The people do hym for a great Prophete take He doth so muche good among them that be sicke That they wote not what on hym to make For he healeth bothe the madde and the lunatike Malicioê° iudge Me thinke verily that it doth you behoue Which are men of learnyng and intelligence His doctrine and miracles wisely to proue And whence he had them to haue experience Simon By my faith I wil tell you what was my pretence To haue bidden him to dyner this day I thought Where we would haue examined his science And by what power suche wonders he wrought But if I can not haue hym in my house this day I will appoynt an other day for the same cause Then will we appoint for hym some other way If we fynd hym contrary to our lawes Malicioê° iudge Ne credas tempori trust not the tyme he doth say I feare that you will permitte hym to long There is euer peryll in muche delay Neuer suffre you to raigne ought that is wrong Simon Well seyng that at this tyme he doth not appere I will returne hence as fast as I may Take you the payne a whyle to tary here To see if he chance at any tyme to come this way Or if you here where he is resident Let vs haue worde as fast as euer you can Malicioê° iudge As concernyng your request I will be diligent To doe you pleasure euermore I am your man It shall cost me a fall I promise hym truely Except I bryng hym shortly to an ende Watche for hym will I in all places duely I will know what the marchant doth intende A beggerly wretch that hath not of his owne One house or cabyn wherin he may rest his heade His parents for poore laboring folks ar wel known And haue not y e things which shold stand theÌ„ in stede No man knoweth where he lerned went to schoole And yet he taketh vpon hym to teache men doctrine But within a while he will proue him selfe a foole And come to vtter destruction and ruine Is he able thynke you to withstande So many bishops priestes and pharisies Great learned men and seniors of the lande With other people that be of their affinites His foly by his presumption he doth declare A while we are content that he doth raigne But I trust to make him wearie of his welfare If I may see hym in this countrey agayne Infidelitie Ha ha ha laugh quod he laugh I must in dede I neuer sawe a bolder harlot in my life To prompt hir forward we shall not nede No poynt of synne but that in hir is rife Malicioê° iugemâ—t Infidelitie what a diuell doest thou here I had not knowen thee but by thy voyce Infidelitie Malicious iudgement I pray thee what chere To see thee mery at my heart I doe reioyce Malicioê° iudge What a diuell meanest thou by this geare This garment is not of the wonted fashion Infidelitie For euery day I haue a garment to weare Accordyng to my worke and operation Among the Pharisies I haue a Pharisies gown Among publicans and synners an other I vse I am best I tell thee now both in citie and towne And chiefly among the people of the Iewes This is the cause their Messias whoÌ„ Christ they call Is come into the world sinners to forgeue Now my labour is both with great and small That none of them do hym nor his wordes beleue The bishops pharisies I make y e more hard harted The synnes of them that are disposed to synne I augment so that they can not be conuerted So that hard it will be any grace to wynne Malicioê° iudge Among them Malicious iudgemeÌ„t is not my name The true intellection of the law they doe me call Carnally I cause them to vnderstand the same And accordyng to their owne malice to iudge all Infidelitie Thou knowest that among theÌ„ I am Iustice lega For by the dedes of the law they will be iustified So that the doctrine of the Messias euangelicall Shalbe despised and he therfore crucified Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t The reuerend father Simon the Pharisie To haue spoken with him euen now was here Under the pretence of frendship and amitie He would bid him to diner and make him good chere Not for any good-will that to hym he doth owe But to proue his fashion learnyng and power Good will quod he â–ª No no that I do know Infidelitie For yf they durst he should die within this houre But let this passe I will tell thee what I haue done Knowest thou not a wench called Mary Magdalene Malicioê° iudge Yes mary I dyd see her yesterday at noone A pretie wenche she is in deede and a cleane Infidelitie I haue brought her now into suche a case That she is past the feare of God and shame of man She worketh priuily in euery place Yea and prouoketh other therto now and than I would thou dydst see hir disposition Thou hast not sene hir like I think in thy dayes Malicioê° iudge If she haue tasted of thy erudition I doubt not but she knoweth all wicked ways To se her fashion I would bestowe my forty pence But at this tyme I can no longer tary here About my busynesse I must depart hence Seekyng for the same Christ both farre and nere Infideli Uery little I hope for his commoditie To doe hym any good doest thou intende Thou knowest my mynde right well Infidelitie â–ª What nede we any more tyme to spende Farewell thou wilt come to â—â—â—er to day Maister Symon will haue him if it be possible Infidelitie Thou knowest that I dwell with such men alway For in his heart I am euen now inuisible Well remembred yet I must prouide a garment Agaynst that I come to my master Symon About the which the preceptes of the testament Must be written in order one by one Nowe will I returne to my minion againe I may not from hir be away absent If hir companie I should a litle refraine I knowe well that she would not be content Mary Horeson
entangle men and snarle them in such a trade Infidelitie I can you thanke for that Mary in dede Well spoken an vniust God do you esteme Euen from the heart that sentence dyd procede Feare not their vniust God do you blaspheme You see no remedy but vtter damnation Folowe my counsell and put care away Take here your pleasure and consolation And make you mery in this worlde while you may Of one hell I would not haue you twayne to make Be sure of a heauen while you dwell here Refresh your self and al pleasure doe you take Plucke vp a lusty heart and be of a good chere Mary O this knowledge of synne is so in my syght That if I should dye truely I can not be mery Infidelitie We will ridde the knaue hence anon by this light Or else of his life I will soone make him wearie the Law O synner from thy heart put that infidelitie Which hath drowned thee already in the pit of hell Trust thou in Gods might and possibilitie Wherof neither angell nor man is able to tell Knowledge of synne That thing in dede whiche to man is impossible Is a small thyng for God to bryng to passe This mercy to all senses is comprehensible Which he will declare by his holy Messias the Law That thing which I cā not do through my infirmity God is able by his son to perform in tyme appointed All my contentes be shadowes of his maiestie Whom now in this tyme God hath anoynted Knowledge of synne That Messias alone onely shall the law fulfill And his fulfilling shall be in suche acceptation That God for his sake shall pardon mankyndes yll Acceptyng his offeryng for a full contentation the Law That Messias is the stone spoken of before Which of vayne builders should be refused Yet he shall be the corner stone of honour Which in the building of gods tēple shal be vsed And all that trust in hym with true beleue Knowledge of Sinne. That he is very God and man into this world sent God will all their synnes for his sake forgeue So that they can be contrite and repent Mary I euer beleued yet vnto this day That God was able of nothyng all things to make And as well I beleue also that he may Forgeue and mercy vpon synners take But seyng that he hath made a determination By a law that none shall be saued good or badde Then he that would looke for any saluation Truly I take hym ten tymes for worse than madde Infidelitie He that will not the kepers of the law saue Which obserue diligently his commaundementes Much lesse truly on them mercy he will haue Which haue contemned all his words iudgements Wel Mary I haue condemned thee vnto hell fyre the Law Yet not so condemned thee but if thou canst beleue In that Messias which for thee doth enquire There is no doubt but thy sinnes he will forgeue Thy sore is knowen receiue thy salue and medicine I haue the sicke to the leache geue good eare Hearken diligently vnto his good discipline And he will heale thee doe nothyng feare Exit Let me fele your poulses mistresse Mary be you sick Infidelitie By my trouth in as good tēpre as any woman can be Your vaines are full of bloud lusty and quicke In better taking truly I did you neuer see The body is whole but sick is the conscience Knowledge of synne Which neither the law nor man is able to heale It is the word of God receyued with penitence Like as the boke of wisedome doth plainly reueale Infidelitie Conscience how doth thy conscience litle Mall Was thy conscience sicked alas little foole Hooreson fooles set not a pynne by them all Wise inough in dede to folowe their foolishe schoole You bottell nosed knaue get you out of place Auoyde stinkyng horeson a poyson take thee Hence or by God I will lay thee on the face Take hede that hereafter I doo you not see Though I appere not to hir carnall syght Knowledge of synne Yet by the meanes that she knoweth the lawe I shall trouble hir always both day and night And vpon hir conscience continually gnawe Infidelitie What chere nowe is here but we twayne alone Be mery mistresse Mary and away the mare A murreyn go with them now they be gone Plucke vp your stomacke and put away all care Mary O maister Prudence my heart is sore vexed The knowledge of synne is before me alway In my conscience I am so greuously perplexed That I wote not what to doe truly nor say Here entreth Christ Iesus Infidelitie Benedicite arte thou come with a vengeance ▪ What wilt thou do Mary doe you loue me My wordes print well in your remembrance To yonder felowes saying doe you neuer gree Christ Iesus Into this worlde God hath sent his owne Not to iudge the world or to take vengeance But to preache forgeuenesse and pardon Through true faith in hym and perfect repentance The sonne of man is come to seke and saue Suche persons as perishe and go astraye God hath promised them lyfe eternally to haue If they repent and turne from theyr euill way The kyngdom of heauen is at hand therfore repent Amende your lyues and the Gospell beleue The sonne of God into this world is sent To haue mercy on men and theyr synnes to forgeue Mary O here is the Messias of whom we haue harde What say you Prudence is not this same he Infidelitie A Mary do you my wordes no more regard You haue a waueryng witte now well I doe see Is not this a lyke person the sonne of God to be And the Messias whiche the worlde should saue He is a false harlot you may beleue me Whome you shall see one day handled like a knaue If the lawe of God published by Moyses Be not able to bryng men to saluation Muche lesse suche a wretched man doubtlesse Can do ought for your soules consolation Tushe take one heauen in this present world here You remember what before to you I haue sayd Pluck vp your heart wenche and be of good there Neuer regard his words tushe be not afrayd Mary The lawe hath set my synnes before my syght That I can not be mery but am in despaire I know that God is a Iudge equall and right And that his lawe is true pure cleane and fayre By this law am I condemned alredy to hell The wordes he hath spoken must be fulfilled Of myrth and ioy it is but foly to tell For I perceiue that both body and soule be spilled Christ Like as the father raiseth the dead agayne And vnto life doth them mercifully restore So the sonne quickeneth the dead it is playne And geueth them a life to liue euermore Uerily verily I say he that heareth my voyce And beleueth on him that hath me sent Shall haue euerlastyng life therin to reioyce And shall not come into damnable torment But the same passe from death vnto lyfe Repent and trust in Gods
Lord Iesus of his great mercy Mary entreth with Iustificatiō To speake sentences here in my presence Of the which I haue no perfect intelligence The fyrst is Many sinnes are forgiuen hir sayd he Because she hath loued much meanyng me I pray you most holy Iustification Of this sentence to make a declaration Iustificaion A question right necessary to be moued For therby many errors shall be reproued It were a great errour for any man to beleue That your loue dyd deserue that Christ shold forgeue Your synnes or trespasses or any synne at all For so to beleue is an errour sanaticall And how can your loue desyre forgiuenesse of your yl Seing that the law it is not able to fulfill The law thus commaundeth as touchyng loue Thou shalt loue thy Lord God as it doth behoue With al thy hert with al thy soule w t al thy strēgth And thy neighbor as thy self He saith also at length There was neuer man borne yet that was able To performe these preceptes iust holy and stable Saue onely Iesus Christ that lambe most innocent Which fulfilleth the law for suche as are penitent But loue foloweth forgiuenesse of synnes euermore As a fruict of faith and goth not before In that parable which vnto you he recited Wherin he declared your sinnes to be acquited He called you a detter not able to pay Then your loue paid not your dets perceiue you may The forgiuenesse of your sinnes you must referre Only to Christes grace then you shall not erre Of this thing playn knowledge you may haue In these wordes go in peace thy fayth doth thee saue So by faith in Christ you haue Iustification Frely of his grace and beyond mans operation The which Iustification here I do represent Which remayn with all suche as be penitent Here commeth loue a speciall fruicte of Faith As touchyng this heare mekely what he saith Mary O how much am I vnto Iesus Christ bound In whom so great mercy goodnesse I haue found Not onely my synfull lyfe he hath renued But also with many graces he hathe me endued Loue entreth I am named loue from true faith procedyng Where I am there is no vertue nedyng Loue commyng of a conscience immaculate And of a faith not fained nor simulate Is the end of the law as Scripture doth say And vnto eternall felicitie the very path way This loue grounded in Faith as it is sayd Hath caused many euyls in men to be layd For where as the loue of God in any is perfite There in all good workes is his whole delite This true loue with Mary was present verily When to Christ she shewed that obsequie But this loue dyd procede from beleue When Christ of his mercy dyd hir sinnes forgeue Loue deserued not forgeuenesse of sinnes in dede But as a fruite therof truely it did succede Iustification Of this matter we might tary very long But then we should do our audience wrong Which gently hath heard vs here a long space Wherfore we will make an end nowe by Gods grace Praying God that all we example may take Of Mary our synfull lyues to forsake And no more to looke backe but to go forward still Folowyng Christ as she did and his holy will Loue. Such persons we introduce into presence To declare the conuersion of hir offence Fyrst the lawe made a playne declaration That she was a chylde of eternall damnation By hearyng of the law came knowledge of synne Then for to lament truely she dyd begynne Nothyng but desperation dyd in hir remayne Lokyng for none other comfort but for hell payne But Christ whose nature is mercy to haue Came into this world synners to saue Which preached repentance synnes to forgeue To as many as in hym faithfully dyd beleue By the word came faith Faith brought penitence But bothe the gyft of Gods magnificence Thus by Faith onely Marie was iustified Like as before it is playnly verified From thens came loue as a testification Of Gods mercy and her iustification Mary Now God graunt that we may go the same way That with ioy we may ryse at the last day To the saluation of soule and body euermore Through Christ our Lord to whom be all honor FINIS