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he bringeþ hire to Rome and to his wijf
he yaf hire and hire ȝonge sone also
And wiþ þe Senatour sche ladde hir lyf [folio 87b]
Thus kan oure lady bringen out of woo
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Woful Custance and many anoþer mo
And long tyme dwelled sche in þat place
In holy werkes euere as was hir grace
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¶ The Senatoures wijf hir aunte was
But for al þat sche knew hir neuer þe more
I wil no lenger tarien in þis caas
But to king Alla which I spak of yore
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That for his wyf wepeþ and sikeþ sore /
I wol retorne and lete I wil Custance
vnder þe Cenatoures gouernance /
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¶ kyng Alla which þat hadde his moder slayn
vpon a day fil in such repentance
That if I schortly tellen schal and playn
To Rome he comeþ to receyuen his penance
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And put him in þe popes ordinance
In heigh and low and Ihesu crist besoughte
fforyeue his wikkede werkes þat he wroughte
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¶ The fame ano þurgh Rome toun is born
how Alla king schal comen in pilgrinage
By herberiours þat wenten him biforn
ffor which þe Senatour as was vsage
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Rood him agayn and many of his lynage
As wel to schewen his hie magnificence
As to don any king a reuerence
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¶ Gret cheere doth þis noble Senatour
To king Alla and he to him also
Euerich of hem doþ oþer gret honour
And so bifille þat in a day or tuo
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