The kiges baner on felde is playd

 

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Now ~ynge we we were wont

Uexilla regis prodeunt.

The kiges baner on felde is playd

The cross &? mi~try can not be nayd

To whom our ~auyour was betrayd

And for our ~ake

Thus ~ayth he, I ~uffre for the

My deth I take

Now ~ynge we &c

Behold my ~hankes behold my knees

Beholde my hed, armes and thees

Beholde of me nothyng thou ~ees

But ~oro we and pyne

Thus was I ~pyit, man for thy gylte

And not for myne.

Now ~ynge we &c

Behold my body how Jewes it donge

W knots of whipcord & ~courges ~trong

As ~tremes of a well y^ blode out ~prong

On euery ~yde

The knottes were knyt

Ryght well made with wyt

They made woundes wyde

Now ~ynge we &c

Man yu ~halt now vnder~tand

Of my head, bothe fote and hand

Are four .C. and fyue thou~and

Woundes, and ~yxty

Fyfty and .vii. were tolde full euen

Upon my body

Now ~yng we &c

Syth I for loue bought the ~o dere

As thou may ~e thy ~eif here

I pray the with a ryght good chere

Loue me agayne

That it lykes me

To ~uffre for the

Now all this payne

    Now ~yng we &c

Man vnder~tand now thou ~hall

In~ted of drynke they gaue me gall

And ey~ell mengled ther withall

The iewes fell

The~e paynes on me, I ~uffred for the

To bryng the fro hell

    Now ~yng we &c

Now for thy lyfe thou ha~t mysled

Mercy to a~ke be thou not adred

The left drop of blode that I for ye bled

Myght clen~e the ~oone

Of all the ~yn

The worlde within

If thou hadde~t doone

    Now ~yng we &c

I was more wrother with Judas

For he wold no mercy a~ke

Than I was for his tre~pas

Whan he me ~olde

I was euer redy

To graunt hym mercy

But he none wolde

    Now ~yng we &c

Lo how I hold my armes abrode

The to receyue redy I ~prede

For the great loue that I to the had

Well may thou knowe

Some loue agayne

I wolde full ~ayne

Thou wolde~t to me ~hewe

    Now ~yng we &c

For loue I a~ke nothyng of the

But ~tand fa~t in faythe, & ~yn thou fle

And payne to lyue in hone~te

Bothe nyght and day

And thou ~halt haue blys

That neuer ~hall mys

Withouten nay.

    Now ~yng we &c

Now Je~u for thy great goodnes

That for man ~uffred great hardnes

Saue vs fro the denyls cruelnes

And to blys vs ~end

And graunt vs grace, to ~e thy face

Without en ende.

Now &c

Finis.