TOWNELEY PLAYS. [Play 10.] INCIPIT ANNUNCIACIO. Deus: Sythen I haue mayde all thyng of noght, I wyll not tyne that I haue wroght. As I hyght, for my person, All wyth reson and with right, Both thrugh mercy and thrugh myght. 5 [286] 10 15 20 25 Thay gart hym towch the tree of lyfe, And he was dampned for that dede. 12 fyfe] v MS Ryghtwysnes wyll we make : I wyll that my son manhede take; To Abraham I am in dett ffor I am lord and lech of heyle. Kyng dauid, and Ieromy, Sybyll sage, that sayde ay well, Ther she dwellys in that cytee, To that vyrgyn, and to that spouse Ioseph also he is namyd by, 52 said in late hand in MS he was foule and layth to syght, And thou art angell fayr and bright,- Of my behalf thou shall hyr grete, I haue hyr chosen, that madyn swete; Thrugh thy word and hyr heryng. In hyr body will I lyght, That is to me clenly dyght; She shall of hyr body bere God and man wythouten dere; She shall be blyssyd wythouten ende. 65 70 [29 a] [Scene 2] Gabriell: hayll, mary, gracyouse! hayll, madyn and godis spouse! Of all vyrgyns thou art qwene hayll, mary, and well thou be! hayll, woman most of mede! ffor thou has fonden all thyn oone This is the grace that the betydys, 80 85 90 95 100 105 Thou shall conceyue within thi sydys When he is comen, that thi son, Mightfull man shall be he that, My lord also shall gyf hym tyll he shall be kyng in Iacob kyn, Maria: What is thi name? godys strengthe and his angell, 110 Maria: fferly gretyng thou me gretys, 115 120 A child to bere thou me hetys, how shuld it be? I cam neuer by man's syde, ffrom fleshly gett; Therfore I wote not how That this be brokyn as a vow That I haue hett. Neuer the les well I wote To wyrk thi word and hold thi hote. Mightfull god is, Bot I ne wote of what manere, Therfore I pray the, messyngere, Gabriell: lady, this is the preuate: The holy gost shall light in the, And his vertue, he shall vmshade and fulfyll That thi madynhede shall neuer spyll, The child that thou shall bere, madame, Shall godys son be callid by name; And se, mary, Elesabeth, thy cosyn, that is cald geld, Of zacary; And this is, who wyll late, The sext moneth of hyr conceytate No word, lady, that I the bryng, Is vnmyghtfull to heuen kyng, Maria: I lofe my lord all weldand, I am his madyn at his hand, And in his wold. I trow bodword that thou me bryng As thou has told. Gabriell: Mary, madyn heynd, me behovys to weynd, Maria: ffar to my freynd, ffor mankynde sake. 125 [296] 130 135 140 145 150 |