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¶ It were ful hard by ordre for to seyn
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how many wondres ihesu for him wrouȝt
But atte laste to telle schort and pleyn
þe sergeaunt of þe toun of Rome hem sought
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And hem byforn Almache þe prouost brought
Which hem opposede and knew al here entent
And to þe ymage of Iubiter he hem sent /
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And sayde who so wol not Sacrifise
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Swap of his heed þis is my sentence heere /
Anon þise martires þat I ȝou deuyse /
On Maximius þat was an officere /
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Of þe Prefectis and of Corniculere
hem hente and when he forþ þe seintes ledde
himself he weep for pite þat he hadde
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¶ Whan maximine hadde herde þe seintes lore /
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he gat hem of þe tormentoures leue /
And hadde hem in his hous wiþoute more
And wiþ here prechyng er þat it/ were eue
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þey gonne from þe tormentours to reue /
And from Maximius and from his folk ilkon
þe false feiþ to trowe in god allon
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Cecile cam whan it was woxen night [folio 175b]
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Wiþ prestes þat hem cristned alle in feere
And aftirward. whan day was waxen light
Cecile hem sayde wiþ a sobre chere
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Now cristes owne knightes leeue and deere
Casteþ alle a wey þe werkes of derknesse /
And armeþ ȝou in armure of lightnesse
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