As a prynce penytente and ful of contricion, So dyed he, we his seruauntes can recorde: And that he may haue euerlastynge fruicyon, We the beseche, gloryous kynge and lorde! For the laste leson that he dyd recorde, To thy power he it aplyed, saynge _tibi omnes_, As a hye knyghte in fidelyte fermely moryd, _Angeli celi et potestates_; Wherwith payne to the hert him boryd, And lyfe him lefte, gyuynge deth entres. Whiche lyfe, in comparyson of thyne, Is as poynt in lyne, or as instant in tyme; For thou were and arte and shal be of tyme, In thy silfe reynynge by power diuyne, Makynge gerarcyüs thre and orders nyne, The to deifye: Wherfore we crye, Suffer nat Jaspar to dye, But to lyue; For eternally that he shal lyue Is oure byleue. [Sidenote: M. xix. C. prolongacio.] And than [?] moste craftely dyd combyne Another heuen, called cristalline, So the thyrde stellyferal to shyne Aboue the skye: Wherfore we crye, Suffer nat Jaspar to dye, But to lyue; For eternally that he shal lyue Is oure byleue. Moreouer in a zodiake pure and fyne Synys xii. thou set for a tyme, And them nexte, in cercle and lyne, Saturne thou set, Iupiter, and Mars citryne, Contect and drye: Wherfore we crye, Suffer nat Jaspar to dye, But to lyue; For eternally that he shal lyue Is oure byleue. Than, to peryssh, thorouthryll, and myne The mystes blake and cloudes tetryne, Tytan thou set clerely to shyne, The worldes iye: Wherfore we crye, _vt supra_. Yet in their epycercles to tril and twyne, Retrograte, stacyoner, directe, as a syne, Uenus thou set, Marcury, and the Mone masseline; Nexte fyre and ayre, so sotyl of engyne, The to gloryfye: Wherfore we crye, Suffer nat Jaspar to dye, But to lyue; For eternally that he shal lyue Is oure byleue. Water, and erth with braunch and vine; And so, thy werkes to ende and fyne, Man to make thou dyd determyne, Of whome cam I: Wherfore I cry and the supplye, Suffer nat Jaspar to dye, But to lyue; For eternally that he shal lyue Is oure byleue. With him, to comford at all tyme, Thou ioyned the sex than of frayle femynyne, Which by temptacyon serpentyne Theyre hole sequele broughte to ruyne By ouergrete folye: Wherfore we crye, Suffer not Jaspar to dye, But to lyue; For eternally that he shal lyue Is oure byleue. Than, of thy godenes, thou dyd enclyne Flessh to take of thy moder and virgyne, And vs amonge, in payne and famyne, Dwalte, and taughte thy holy doctryne Uulgarly: Wherfore we crye, Suffer nat Jaspar to dye, But to lyue; For eternally that he shal lyue Is oure byleue. Tyl a traytoure, by false couyne, To Pylat accused the at pryme; So taken, slayne, and buryed at complyne, Rose agayne, of Adam redemynge the lyne By thy infynyte mercy: For whych mercy,