(Narrative from " Devotions for Corpus Christi " .)

A Jew sometime and a Christian man
Were fellows in the way upon,
And by the way, as right it was,
The Christian man heard ring to Mass.
The Christian man said: " Bide thee here
While I go in to say my prayer " .
The Christian man went into Church;
And the Jew began to grucche
For he thought his fellow was
Too long praying at the Mass.
The Jew rose up and entered too
To see what men therein might do:
And then he saw, and cried in dread,
The priest held high over his head
A fair young child, i-wounded sore
In foot and hand: yet saw he more,
That there was neither wife nor man
But held up hands and sat on knee.
And from that child he saw come flee
Another such as he saw stand
And light between each mannes hand.

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The Christian man after the Mass
Came to the place where the Jew was.
The Jew asked: " How farest thou? "
The Christian answered: " Better than thou;
For since I have my God within
The better can I my way begin " .
" Fellow, " quoth the Jew anon
" Help me to be a Christian man. "
The Jew was christened as he sware,
For grief at the wounds of that child fair.