"Fair Father God, never did I evil to none, nor never did I shame nor sinned deadly in myself, nor never wrought against your will, so far as sore discounselled. Lord, well might it beseem you to remember of your therefore ought you to remember that the good knight Joseph of for your love, for well I know that such is your pleasure, nor have I her own uncle. Better loved he to take down your Body than all the pity and the sweetness that is in you, and of compassion that she hath Abarimacie, that took down your Body when it hung upon the rood, was in me lay, but rather do I serve you and love and fear you and your hath she, save of you alone. You are her affiance and her succour, and been unrighteously disherited, and that no succour nor aid nor counsel "When it shall please you, you will release me and my mother of the for your love and for pity is fain to succour and aid my mother that is XVIII. sweet Mother; and all the tribulation I receive, accept I in patience XVII. Widow Lady without help. Lord, you who have all the world at your this most holy cloth thus draweth itself away from me!" gold and all the fee that Pilate might give him. Lord, good right of mercy and do your commandment in all things, grant me betimes to hear grief and tribulation wherein we are. For well you know that they have And so lend force to the knight and power against all our enemies, that very truth had he so to do, for he took you in his arms beside the no will to set myself against nought that pleaseth you. tidings of my brother and he be on live, for sore need have we of him. reaved her of her castles by wrong, and of her land, for that she is a "Ha, God!" saith the damsel, "It is for my sin and my disloyalty that