_Primus doctor._ Goo hom, lytyl babe, and sytt on thi moderes lappe, And put a mokador aforn thi brest; And pray thi modyr to fede the with the pappe, Of the for to lerne we desyre not to lest. _Secundus doctor._ Go to thi dyner, for that behovyth the best, Whan thou art a threste than take the a sowke; Aftyr go to cradyl therin to take thi rest, ffor that canst do bettyr than for to loke on book. _Jhesus._ Stondynge that ȝe be so wytty and wyse, Can ȝe owth tellyn how this werde was wrought? How longe xal it laste can ȝe devyse, With alle the cunnynge that ȝe han sought? _Primus doctor._ Nay alle erthely clerkys that telle can nought, It passyth oure wytt that for to contryve; It is not possyble abought to be brought,— The worldys endyng no man kan dyscryve. _Jhesus._ How it was wrought, and how longe it xal endure, That I can telle be good delyberacion; Not only therof, but of every creature, How it is wrought, I knowe the phasmacion. _Secundus doctor._ Of thi wurdys I have skorne and derysone; How schulde a chylde, that nevyr lettyr dyde lere, Com to the wytt of so hyȝ cognysion Of tho grete werkys that so wundyrfoille were? _Jhesus._ Alle thynge is brought to informacion, Be thre personys, oo God in Trynité! And on of tho thre hath take incarnation, Bothe flesche and blood of a mayd ffre; And be that myght of tho personys thre, Hevyn and erthe and alle thynge is wrought; And as it plesyth that hyȝ magesté, Alle thynge xal leste and lenger nowght. _Primus doctor._ I grawnt weyl alle thynge that God dyde make, And withowtyn hym nothynge may be; But o thynge thou seydyst, and that I forsake, That oo God alone was personys thre; Ryght onpossyble that is to me, That on is thre I kannot thynke: If thou canst preve it, anon lett se, ffor in oure hertys it may nevyr synke. _Jhesus._ In the sunne consydyr ȝe thynges thre, The splendure, the hete, and the lyght; As tho thre partys but oo sunne be, Ryght so thre personys be oo God of myght. _Secundus doctor._ In very feyth this reson is ryght; But ȝitt, fayr babe, oo thynge we pray ȝow:— What do alle tho thre personys hyght Us to enforme? ȝe sey to me now. _Jhesus._ The fyrst is calde the fadyr of myght, The secunde the sone of wysdam and wytt; The holy gost the iijᵈᵉ. of grace he is lyght, And in oo substauns alle these iij. be knyt. _Primus doctor._ Another questyon I aske ȝow ȝitt, ȝe seyd on of these iij. toke flesche and blood; And sche a clene mayde, I kannot beleve it, Clene mayde and modyr never ȝit in oo persone stood.