Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

5.470: But for thi muchel mercy mitigacion I biseche:
5.471: Dampne me noght at Domesday for that I dide so ille!'
5.472: What bifel of this feloun I kan noght faire shewe.
5.473: Wel I woot he wepte faste water with hise eighen,
5.474: And knoweliched his [coupe] to Crist yet eftsoones,
5.475: That Penitencia his pik he sholde polshe newe
5.476: And lepe with hym over lond al his lif tyme,
5.477: For he hadde leyen by Latro, Luciferis Aunte.
5.478: And thanne hadde Repentaunce ruthe and redde hem alle to
knele.
5.479: " For I shal biseche for alle synfulle Oure Saveour of grace
5.480: To amenden us of oure mysdedes and do mercy to us alle.
5.481: Now God,' quod he, "that of Thi goodnesse gonne the world make,
5.482: And of naught madest aught and man moost lik to thiselve,
5.483: And sithen suffredest hym to synne, a siknesse to us alle —
5.484: And al for the beste, as I bileve, whatevere the Book telleth:
5.484: O felix culpa ! O necessarium peccutum Ade !
5.485: For thorugh that synne thi sone sent was to this erthe
5.486: And bicam man of a maide mankynde to save —
5.487: And madest Thiself with Thi sone us synfulle yliche:
5.487: Faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram; Et alibi
5.487: Qui manet in caritate, in Deo manet, et Deus in eo;
5.488: And siththe with Thi selve sone in oure sute deidest
5.489: On Good Fryday for mannes sake at ful tym~ of the day;
5.490: Ther Thiself ne Thi sone no sorwe in deeth feledest,
5.491: But in oure secte was the sorwe, and Thi sone it ladde:
5.491: Captivum duxit captivitatem.
5.492: The sonne for sorwe therof lees sight for a tyme
5.493: Aboute mydday whan moost light is and meel-tyme of seintes —
5.494: Feddest tho with Thi fresshe blood oure forefadres in derknesse:
5.494: Populus qui ambulabat in tenebris vidit lucem magnam.
5.495: And the light that lepe out of Thee, Lucifer it blente,
5.496: And blewe alle Thi blessed into the blisse of Paradys!
5.497: "The thridde day therafter Thow yedest in oure sute:
5.498: A synful Marie The seigh er Seynte Marie Thi dame,
5.499: And al to solace synfulle Thow suffredest it so were —
5.499: Non veni vocare iustos set peccatores ad penitenciam.
5.500: "And al that Marc hath ymaad, Mathew, Johan and Lucas
5.501: Of Thyne doughtiest dedes was doon in oure armes:
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