XVIII.

Deliver us for thy descent

Into the Virgin, whose wombe was a place 155

Of middle kind; and thou being sent

To'ungratious us, staid'st at her full of grace;

And through thy poore birth, where first thou

Glorifiedst Povertie,

And yet soone after riches didst allow, 160

By accepting Kings gifts in the Epiphanie,

Deliver, and make us, to both waies free.

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