| | Parfourmed is be men of dignyte | |
| 5 | But by the mouth of childryn thy bounte | |
| | Parfourmyd is / for on thy brest sowkyng | |
| | Somtyme shewd they thyn heryynge | |
| | Wherfore in laude as I can and may | |
| | Of the and of thy whyte lily flour | |
| 10 | Whiche that the baar and is mayde alway | |
| | To telle a story I wol do my labour | |
| | Not that y may encrece her honour | |
| | For she her self is honoure and the rote | |
| | Of beaute next her son and soulis bote | |
| 15 | O modir mayde O mayde and moder fre | |
| | O bussh vnbrent brennyng in Moyses sight | |
| | That raueysshedist doun from the deyte | |
| | Thorou thyn humbles the gost that in the a light | |
| | Of whoos vertu / when he thyn herte whit | |
| 20 | Conceyued was the fadris sapience | |
| | Help me to telle it in thyn reuerence | |
| | Lady thy bounte thy magnificence | |
| | Thy vertu and thy grete humylite | |
| | Ther may no tunge expresse in no science | |
| 25 | For somtyme lady or men praye the | |
| | Thow gost beforn of thy benignyte | |
| | And getist vs light of thy praiere | |
| | To giden vs vnto thy sone so dere | |
| | My konnyng is so week o blisful quene | |
| 30 | Forto declare thyn high worthynesse | |
| | That I ne may thy wit sustene | |
| | But as a child of twelfmonth old of lesse | |
