[6-text p 545]
(72)
þer lackeþ noþing to þin vtter yhen
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þat þou nart blynd for þing þat we seen alle
That is a ston yt men wel may aspyen
That ilke ston a god þou wilt it calle
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I rede þe let þin hond vpon it falle
And taste it wel and stoon þou schalt it fynde /
Syns þat þou sixt it nought wiþ þin yȝen blynde /
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(73)
It is a schame þat þe poeple schall
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So skorne þe and lawhe at þy folye /
ffor comunely wommen woot it wel ouer al
þat mighty god is in his heuenes hihe
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And þese ymages wel þanne mayst þou aspye
To þe ne to hemself may þey not profyte
ffor in here effecte þey be not worþ a myte
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(74)
þis and such oþer wordes seyde sche /
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and he wax wroþ and bad þey schulde hire lede /
home to hire hous and in hire hous quod he
Brenne hire in a fire wiþ flammes reede
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And as he bad right so was don in dede
And in a bathe þey gan hire faste scheten
And night and day gret fuyr vnder þey beetyn
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(75)
Al þe longe night and eek þe day also /
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ffor alle þe fuyr and eek þe baþes hete /
Sche satte al colde and felt of it/ no wo
Ne made hire a drop nouȝt for to swete /
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But in þat baþe hire lyf sche moste lete /
ffor he Almachie wiþ ful wikked entent [folio 177b]
To slen hure in þe bath his sonde sent
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