V.

Hail, hendy; hail, holy emperess;

Hail, queen courteous, comely, and kind;

Hail, destroyer of every strife;

Hail, mender of every man's mind;

Hail, body that we ought to bless,

So faithful friend may never man find;

Hail, lever and lover of largëness,

Sweet and sweetest that never may swynde;

Hail, botenere[1] of every body blind;

Hail, borgun brightest of all bounty,

Hail, trewore then the wode bynd:

_You pray for us thy Sonë so free!_ AVE.

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