Tyl the Bysshop off the diocyse
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Sat upon hem, dide execuciown, [did.]
By hasty rygour procedyng to Justise. [Justice.]
Hangyd they wern, shortly to deuyse —
Loo how the martir the robbours dyde quyte! — [did.]
Off this mater what sholde I more endite? [mateere. shulde.]
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The lawe he thouhte gaff to hym licence
To execute hasty Jugement,
Be-cause in cherche was do the gret of|fence,
Conspired be theuys, alle eyhte off assent; [chirche. doo.]
Nat seyn afforn this text bauysement: [by.]
"Cesse thow nat, thus thapostel bad, [by avysement.]
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Them to delyuere that to the deth be lad". [Cece thou. Thapoostyl.]
Off whos deth this bysshop Theodrede
Hadde al his lyff hertly repentance,
For this cruel and this hasty deede
Made the peple faste and do penance; [this nach and fehlt.]
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He sore contrit, tryst off contenance, [doo.]
Hadde euer affter for that gret offence
Withynne hym-sylff remors off conscience. [evir aftir.]
Whan ffolk off pryde lyst haue no reward
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To hooly seyntis forto do reuerence, [seyntes.]
God punyssheth hem: record on seynt Edward [recoord of.]
Whilom at Bury beyng in presence [whyloom.]
Whan Osgothus off hatful necligence,
A lord off Denmark, lyk a wood man ferde,
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The myracles off Edmund whan he herde. [Edmond.]
Toward the martyr he bar old hatrede,
This Osgothus, as it was affter founde, [aftir.]
Despysed his myracles whan he herde hem reede. [herd.]
Yet he in ordre was callyd the secounde, [yit.]
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Next to the kyng, with gold and perlys rounde [peerlys.]
Rychely beseyn, and statly off array.
Aboute the shryne walkyng al the day,
Off coryouste and presumpcioun
His look he caste toward that hooly kyng,
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Off fals dysdeyn, voyd off deuocioun [voyde.]
Depraued his vertues, his passioun, his lyuyng. [depravid.]
And as he stood the martir thus skornyng,
With a brood fawchoun hangyng be his syde,
Fyl plat to grownde, mawgre al his pryde — [grounde.]
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God is nat plesid with such fals blas|ffeme [suych a.]
Doon to his seyntys off Indignacioun, [seyntes.]
Namly to martirs, which, the lord to queme, [na|mely.]
Suffred for his sake deth and passioun; [suffryd.]
To pleye with seyntys kometh off ambi|cioun, [seyntes comyth.]
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Which god wil punysshe with vnwar vengaunce;
For which this story is put in remem|brance. —
This lord off Denmark for al his gret bost, [greet boost.]
For al his tresour, his gold and his perre,
As a demonyak vexyd with a gost,
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Ful offte turnynge in his infirmyte. [tournyng.]
The noise aroos, oon seith "there lyth he",
Tyl the rumour off cryyng heer and there [here.]
Kam be report to the kynges ere, [Cam. repoort.]
Which thilke tyme in Chapitle was present
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Off his grace and Royall dignyte [Royal.]
With the abbot and hool al the couent,
Tencresse ther franchise and ther liberte: [tencrese.]
Off his benygne and mercyful bounte [remours.]
