We pray ȝow enforme us for charyté—
Whiche toke flesche of the personys thre,
Ageyn the fende to holde suche batayle?
Jhesus. The secunde persone forsothe is he,
Xal fray the fende withowte fayle.
Primus doctor. Why rather he than any of that tother,
The fyrst or the thyrde, why come they nowth?
Jhesus. This is the cawse why, sertys, and non other,
Ageyn the secunde the trespas was wrought;
Whan the serpent Adam to synne browth,