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¶ Ye han for sothe / ydoon a greet bataille [folio 171a]
Youre cours is doon / youre feith han ye conserued
Goth to the corone of lyf/ that may nat faille
The rightful Iuge / which that ye han serued
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Shal yeue it yow / as ye han it disserued
And whan this thyng was seyd / as I deuyse
Men ledde hem forth / to doon the sacrifise
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(57)
¶ But whan they weren / to the place broght
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To tellen shortly / the conclusioun
They nolde encense / ne sacrifice right noght
But on hir knees / they setten hem adoun
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With humble herte / and sad deuocioun
And losten / bothe hir heuedes / in the place
Hir soules wenten / to the kyng of grace
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¶ This Maximus / that say this thyng bityde
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With pitous teerys / tolde it anon right
That he hir soules / saugh to heuene glyde
With Aungeles / ful of cleernesse / and of light
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And with his word / conuerted many a wight
ffor which Almachius / dide hym so bete
With whippe of leed / til he his lyf gan lete
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¶ Cecile hym took / and buryed hym anon
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By Tiburce and Valerian softely
With Inne hir buryyng place / vnder the stoon
And after this / Almachius hastily
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Bad hise Ministres / fecchen openly
Cecilie / so þat she myghte in his presence
Doon sacrifice / and Iubiter encense
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