Which Adam whilom broghte ous inne, 1750
P. ii. 186
Ther scholden alle men be lost;
Bot Crist restoreth thilke lost,
And boghte it with his fleissh and blod.
And if we thenken hou it stod
Of thilke rancoun which he payde,
Gregorius. O necessarium Ade peccatum![1660] O felix culpa, que talem ac tantum meruit habere redemptorem!
As seint Gregoire it wrot and sayde,
Al was behovely to the man: