"Lo me his hand-maiden

For to werchen his wille,

Withouten any synne."

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[Ecce ancilla Domini, fiat mihi, etc.]

And in the wombe of that wenche

Was he fourty woukes,

Til he weex a faunt thorugh hir flessh,

And of fightyng kouthe,

To have y-foughte with the fend