[6-text p 543]
(64)
fful wrongfully bigan þou quod he
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And ȝit in wrong is þin perseuerance
Wost þou nouȝt how oure mighty princes fre
Ben þus comaundid and maken ordinannce
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That euery cristne wight schal han penannce
But if þat he his cristendom wiþ-seye
And gon al quyt if he wol it receyue
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(65)
¶ Ȝoure princes erren as ȝoure noblen doth
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Quod þo Cecile / and a wood sentence
ȝe make vs gulty and it nys nouȝt soþ
ffor ȝe þat knowen wel oure Innocence
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ffor as moche as we don a reuerence [folio 176b]
To crist. and for we bere a cristene name
ȝe putte on vs a cryme and eek a blame
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(66)
But we þat knowen þilke name so
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ffor vertuous we may it not say
Almachie answerde chese on of þise tuo
Do sacrifice or cristendom reneyne
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þat þou mow now skapen by þat wey
At which þe holy blisful mayde
gan for to laughe and to þe Iuge sche sayde
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(67)
O Iuge confuse in þy nycete
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Wolt þou þat I reneye Innocence /
To make me a wicked wight quod sche
loo he dissimileþ here in audience /
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he stareþ and woodeþ in his aduertence
To whom almachius O Vnseely wrecche /
Ne wost þou nought how fer my might may strecche
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