| | Though that I for my prymer be shent | |
| 90 | And sholde be bete thries in an hour | |
| | I wol it conne our lady to honour | |
| | His felow taughte hym homward priuely | |
| | Fro day to day til he coude it al be rote | |
| | And than he song it wel and boldly | |
| 95 | Fro word to word accordyng to the note | |
| | Twis a day it passid thorow his throte | |
| | To scoleward and homward whan he wente | |
| | On cristis modir set was al his entent | |
| | As I haue said thorou out the Iurye | |
| 100 | This litil child as he cam to and fro | |
| | Ful merily wolde he synge and crye | |
| | O alma redemptoris mater euer mo | |
| | The swetnesse his herte persid so | |
| | Of cristis moder that he to her prey | |
| 105 | He can not stynte of singinge by the wey | |
| | Our firste foo the serpent sathanas | |
| | That hath in Iues herte his waspis nest | |
| | Vp swal and sayde o ebreik pepil allas | |
| | Is this a thing that is to vs honest | |
| 110 | That suche aboy shal walkyn as hym list | |
| | In our despit and synge of suche sentence | |
| | Whiche is ayenst our lawes reuerence | |
| | Fro thens forth the Iewis haue conspirid | |
| | This Innocent out of this worlde to chace | |
| 115 | An homicide therto haue they hirid | |
| | Right at an aley at a pryue place | |
| | And as the childe gan forth by to pace | |
