Geoffrey Chaucer

“ Through thy humbless, the ghost that in thee light;
Of whose virtue, when he thine hearte light,
Conceived was the Father's sapience;
Help me to tell it to thy reverence.
Lady! thy bounty, thy magnificence,
Thy virtue, and thy great humility,
There may no tongue express in no science:
For sometimes, Lady! ere men pray to thee,
Thou go'st before, of thy benignity,
And gettest us the light, through thy prayere,
To guiden us unto thy son so dear. ”

“ Of Christe's mother, had he in usage,
As him was taught, to kneel adown, and say
Ave Maria as he went by the way.
Thus had this widow her little son y-taught
Our blissful Lady, Christe's mother dear,
To worship aye, and he forgot it not;
For sely child will always soone lear. ”

“ The Christian folk, that through the streete went,
In came, for to wonder on this thing:
And hastily they for the provost sent.
He came anon withoute tarrying,
And heried Christ, that is of heaven king,
And eke his mother, honour of mankind;
And after that the Jewes let he bind.
With torment, and with shameful death each one
The provost did these Jewes for to sterve
That of this murder wist, and that anon;
He woulde no such cursedness observe
Evil shall have that evil will deserve ”