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¶ Thre strokes in the nekke / he smoot hire tho [folio 173a]
The tormentour / but for no maner chaunce
He myghte noght smyte al hir nekke atwo
And for ther was / that tyme an ordinaunce
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That no man / sholde doon man swich penaunce
The ferthe strook to smyten / softe or soore
This tormentour / ne dorste do namoore
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¶ But half deed / with hir nekke ycoruen there
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He lefte hir lye / and on his wey he went
The cristen folk whiche þat aboute hire were
With shetes / han the blood ful faire yhent
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Thre dayes / lyued she in this torment
And neuere cessed / hem the feith to teche
That she hadde fostred / hem she gan to preche
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¶ And hem she yaf / hir moebles / and hir thyng
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And to the Pope [[Pope croet out, and byssop written over it.]] Vrban / bitook hem tho
And seyde / I axed þis of heuene kyng
To han respit thre dayes / and namo
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To recommende to yow / er that I go
Thise soules / lo / and þat I myghte do werche
Here of myn hous / perpetuelly a cherche
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¶ Seint Vrban / with hise deknes pryuely
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The body fette / and buryed it by nyghte
Among hise othere Seintes honestly
Hir hous / the chirche of Seinte Cecilie highte
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Seint Vrban halwed it/ as he wel myghte
In which / in to this day / in noble wyse
Men doon to crist and to his seinte seruyse.
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¶ Here is ended / the Nonnes tale.
