[6-text p 151]
And if þis knight wol swere how þat sche
This womman slough ȝit wol we vs auyse /
Whom þat we wolde þat schal be oure Iustise
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¶ A briton book y-writen with euaungiles
Was fette and on þis book he swor anon
Sche giltif was in þe mene whiles
An hand him smot vpon þe nekke bon
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That doun he felle at ones as a stoon
And boþe his eyen brust out of his face/
In sight of euery body in þat place
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¶ A vois was herd in general audience
And seyde þou hast disclandred gilteles
The doughter of holy chirche in heigh presence
Thus hast þou doon and ȝet I moot holde my pees
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Of þis merueyle agast was alle þe prees
As m[a]zed folk þei stooden euerychone
ffor drede of wreche saue Custance allone
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Gret was þe drede and eek þe repentance
Of hem þat hadden wrong suspecion
vpon þis seely Innocent Custance
And for þis miracle in conclusion
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And by Custance mediacion
The king and many anoþer in þat place
Conuerted was þanked be goddes grace
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¶ This false knight was slain for his vntrouthe
By Iuggement of. alla. hastily [folio 83b]
And yet Custance haþ of his deth gret rouþe
And after þis ihesus [[MS ihc]] of his mercy
Made Alla wedden ful solempnely
This holy mayden þat is so bright and scheene
And þus haþ Crist made Custance a queene
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