[6-text p 542]
(60)
But þey conuertid þorugh hire wise lore
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Wepten sore and ȝauen credence /
Vnto hire word and cryden more and more [folio 176a]
Crist goddes sone wiþouten difference
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his verray god þis is alle oure sentence
þat haþ so good a seruant him to serue
þus wiþ oo vois we trowe þeyȝ we sterue
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(61)
Almachius þat herde al þis speking
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Bad fecche Cecile þat he might hir se
And alþer first lo þis was his askyng
What maner womman artow þo quod he /
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I am a gentil womman born quod sche /
I aske quod he þouȝ it þe greue
Of þin religion and of þin byleeue
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(62)
Whi þanne bygan ȝoure question folily
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Quod sche þat woldest tuo answers conclude /
In oo demaunde ȝe askide lewedly
Almachie answerde to þat similitude /
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[of whens cometh thin answere / so rude] [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]]
Of whennes quod sche. whan þat sche was refreyned
Of conscience and of good feiþ vnfeyned
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(63)
Almachius sayde takest þou non heede /
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Of þin answere and sche him answerde þus
Ȝoure might quod sche litel is to drede /
ffor euery mortel mannes power nys
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But y-like a bladdre ful of wynd y-wys /
ffor wiþ a neldis poynt/ when þat is blowe
may al þe bost of it be leyd ful lowe /
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