For drede of deth to sauen hem.
And suffrede peynes harde and sore.
In heuene to dwelle for euer more.
Le portrait de la Vierge:
Seint Luik while he liued in londe.
Wolde haue peynted hit with his honde.
And whon he hedde ordeyned so.
Alle colours that schulde ther to.
He fond an ymage al a-pert.
Non such ther was middelert.