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Jesus
My brethren that sitten in companye,1
With peace I greete you hartelye:
I am he that standes you by;
Ney dread you no thinge.
Well I knowe, and wytterlye,
That you be in greate exstacye
Wheither I be risen verelye,7
That makes you sore in longinge.
You is noe nede to be anoyed soe,
Neither through thoughte to be in woe;
Your handes put nowe froo,
And feele my woundes wyde,
And beleeve this all and one,13
That ghoste hath nether fleshe nor bone,
As you maye feele me uppon,
On handes or on feete.

Spiritus quidem carnem et ossa non habet sicut me videtis habere. Dicat Petrus.

Petrus
A! what is this that standeth us bye?17
A ghoste me hym seemeth witterlye:
Me thinke lightned moche am I
This spirritte for to see.

Andreas
Petter, I tell thee prevelye,21
I dreade me yet full greatlye
That Jesu shoulde doe suche maisterye,
And wheither that this be he.
Johannes.
Brethren, good it is to thinke ever more
What wordes he sayde the daye before27
He dyed on roode, gone is not yore,
And be we stedfaste aye.
Jacobus major.
A! John, that makes us in were,
That all waye when he will appeare,
And when us liste beste to have hym here,33
Anon he is awaye.

Jesus
I see well, brethren, south to saye,35
For anye signe that I shewe maie,
You be not steadfaste in the faye,
But flyttinge I you fynde.
More signes, therfore, you shall see:
Have you oughte maye eaten be?

Simon
Yea, Lorde, heare is enofFe for thee,41
Or elles we were unkinde.

Jesus
Nowe eate we then, for charritye,43
My leve brethren fayer and free,
For all thinges shall fulfilled be
Wrytten in Moyses la we.
Prophettes in Psalmes said of me
That death I behoveth on the roode treey,
And rise in dayes three,49
To joye mankinde to drawe,
And preache to folke this worlde within,
Pennance, remission of their synne j
In Jerusalem I shoulde begyne
As I have done for love.
Therfore beleeve steadfastlye,55
And come with me to Bathanye,
In Jerusalem you shall lye,
To abyde the grace above.

Tunc comedit Jesus cum discipulis suis, et postea dicat

Phillipus.
Lorde, from us thou noughte consayle,
That tyme that thou arte in thy wayle,61
Shalte thou restore Isarell
Againe her realme that daye I

Jesus
Brother, that is not to thee,64
To knowe my fathers previttye,
That toucheth to his owine postie,
Witte that ye naye maye.
But take you shall, through my beheste,
Vertue of the Holye Ghoste,
That sente shalbe to helpe you moste,70
In worlde wher ye maye wende.
My wyttnes all you shalbe
In Jerusalem and Judye,
Samaria also, and eich cuntreye
To the wo rides ende.
Goe ye all the worlde, and, through my grace,76
Preache my worde in eich place,
All that steadfaste beleffe has,
And fullye saved shalbe;
And who so be leeveth not in youer lore,
The wordes you preach them before
Dampned shalbe for ever more,82
That paine shall not them fleye.
By this thinge you shall well knowe,
Who so leeveth steadfastlye in yoo,
Suche signes southlye the shall shoo,
Whersoever the tyde to goe;
In my name well shall the88
Devilles powers to put awaye;
Newe tonges shall have to preach the faye,
And edders to maister also;
And though the poysen eate or drinke,
It shall noye them no thinge;
Sicke men with their handlinge94
Shall healed readelye be:
Suche grace shalbe their doinge. —
Nowe to my father I am goinge,
You shall have, brethren, my blessinge,
For to heaven I muste stee.

Tunc adducit discipulos in Bethaniam, et cum pervenerit ad locum ascendens dicat Jesus, stans in loco ubi asscendit, Data eat michi omnis potestas in celo et in terra. Dicat

Jesus
My sweete brethren, leffe and deare,100
To me is graunted full power,
In heaven and eirth farre and neare,
For my godhead is moste.
To teach all men nowe goe ye,
That in worlde will folowe me,
In the name of my Father and me,106
And of the Holye Grhoste.

Tunc Jesus ascendit, et in ascendendo cantet, God almighti above.

Jesus
Ascendo adpatrem meum et patrem vestrum,108
Deum meum et Deum vestrum, Alleluja!

Cum autem impleverit Jesus canticum, stet in medio quasi supra nubes, et dicat major angelus minori angelo.

Primus angelus cantet
Quis est iste qui venit de Edom tinctis vestibus de Bosra?

Minor angelus respondens cantet
Iste formosus hi stola sua, gradiens in midtitudine fortitudinis sue?

Jesus cantat solas
Ego qui loquor justiciam et propugnator sum ad salvandum.

Corus cantat
Et vestimenta tua sicut calcantis in torculari.

Jesus cantat solus
Torcalar calcavi solus, et de gentibus non est vir mecum.

Primus angellus in lingua materna dicat
Who is this that cometh within,115
The blesse of heaven that never shall blyn,
Blnddelye out of the worlde of synne,
And harowed hell hath he?

Secundus Angellus
Comelye he is in his clothinge,119
And with full power goinge,
A number of sayntes with hym leadinge,
He semeth greate of posté.

Jesus autem pausans eodem loco dicat:

Jesus
I that spake rightwisenes,123
And have brought man out of destresse,
For-byer called I am and was
Of all mankinde through grace;
My people that were from me rafte,
Through synne and through the devilles crafte,
To heaven I bringe, and never one lefte,129
All that in helle were.

Tercius Angellus
Why is thy clouthinge soe rede,131
Thy bodye bloodye and also head,
Thy clothes also that bene leade
Like to pressers of wyne.

Jesus
For the devill and his power135
That mankinde brought in greate dangore,
Through death on crosse and blood so cleare,
I have made them all myne.
These droppes so bloodye that you nowe se,
All the freshe shall reserved be,
Tell I come in my magistie141
To deme the last daye;
This bloode I shedde, wittnes beare to me,
And dyed for man on roode tree,
And rose againe within daies three,
Suche love I loved thee aye.
Thes droppes nowe with good intente147
To my father I will presente,
That good men that on eairth be lente
Shall knowe appeartlye,
Howe graciouslye I them boughte,
And for good workes that I have wroughte
Everlastinge blesse that the soughte,153
To prove the good worthye.
And that the wicked maie eichone
Knowe and se all one,
Howe worthelye the for-gone
That blesse that lasteth [aye].
For these causes leeve you me,159
The droppes I shede on roode tree,
All freshe shall reserved be
Ever tell the laste daie.

Quartus Angellus
You men that be of Gallalye,163
Therupon nowe marvayll ye,
Waytinge hym that through postie
Is nowe gone you froo.

Primus Angellus
Jesus Christe, leeve you me,167
That steed to heaven, as you see,
Righte so come againe shall he, m
As ye seene hym goe.

Petrus
Loe, brethren, what thes angelles say en,171
That Jesu that through his greate mayne
To heaven is gone, will come againe,
Bighte as he fourth wente.

Andreas
Manye seithen so heighte he,175
To sende his Ghoste with harte so free,
And in Jerusalem we shalbe,
Tell it were to us sente.

Symon
Brethren, I rede us in good faye,179
That we theidder take the waie,
And with devocion nighte and daie
Lenge in our praier.
Philippus.
For knowe we mone, by signe vereye,
That he is Godes sonne, south to saie;185
Therfore it is good we goe to praie,
As he commaunded here.
Johannes.
Now mone we leeve it no leasinge,
For bouth by sighte and handlinge,
Speakinge, eatinge, and drinkinge,191
He proves his deatie.
Jacobus Major.
Yea, also by his upsteainge,
He seemes fullye heavenlye kinge:
Whoe hase theirin full levinge,
Saved life and soule is he.197

Pettrus
Goe we, brethren, with on assente,198
And fulfill his comaundmente;
But loke that non through dread be blente,
But leeves all steadfastlye;
Praye we all, with full intente,
That he to us his Ghoste will sende.
Jesus, that nowe is from us wente,204
Save all this companye!