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¶ He bryngeth hire to Rome / and to his wyf
He yaf hire / and hir yonge sone also
And with the Senatour / she ladde hir lyf
Thus kan oure lady / bryngen out of wo [Maria mater omnium virtu|tum. [in a late hand]]
Woful Custaunce / and many another mo
And longe tyme / dwelled she in that place
In holy werkes euere / as was hir grace [R Wryne] [[in the same late hand]]
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¶ The senatours wyf / hir Aunte was
But for al that she knew hir neuer the moore
I wol no lenger / taryen in this cas
But to kyng Alla / which I spak of yoore
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That for his wyf / wepeth and siketh soore
I wol retourne / and lete I wole Custaunce
Vnder the Senatours gouernaunce
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¶ Kyng Alla / which þat hadde his moder slayn [folio 126a]
Vp on a day / fil in swich repentaunce
That if I shortly / tellen shal and playn
To Rome he cometh / to receyuen his penaunce
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And putte hym / in the Popes ordinaunce
In heigh and logh / and Ihesu Crist bisoghte
fforyeue / his wikked werkes þat he wroghte
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¶ The fame anon / thurgh Rome town is born
How Alla kyng shal comen in pilgrymage
By herbergeours / that wenten hym biforn
ffor which the Senatour / as was vsage
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Rood hym agayns / and many of his lynage
As wel to shewen / his heighe magnyficence
As to doon / any kyng a reuerence
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¶ Greet cheere / doth this noble Senatour
To kyng Alla / and he to hym also
Euerich of hem / dooth oother greet honour
And so bifel / þat in a day / or two
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