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(76)
þre strokes in þe necke he smot hire þo
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The tormentour but for no maner chaunce
he might not smyten al hire necke a tuo
And for þer was þat tyme an ordynaunce
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That no man scholde do man such penance
þe ferþe strook to smyten softe or sore
þis tormentour ne durste nomore
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(77)
But half ded wiþ hire necke koruen þere /
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he laft hir lye and in his wey he went
þe cristne folke whiche abouten hire were /
Wiþ scheetes home ful faire hire hent
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þre dayes lyued sche in þis torment
And neuer cessed hem þe feiþ to teche
þat sche hadde fostred hem sche gan to preche
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(78)
And hem sche ȝaff hire moebles and hire þing
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And to þe pope vrban bitok hem þo /
And sayde þus I askede þis of heuen king
To haue respyt þre dayes and no mo /
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To recomande to ȝou er þat I go
þise soules lo and þat I mighte do wirche
here of myn hous perpetuelliche a chirche
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Seint vrban wiþ his deaknes priuely
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The body fette and buried it by nighte
Among his oþere seintes honestely
hire hous þe chirche of seint Cecile highte
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Seynt vrban halwed it as he wel mighte
In þe which in to þis day in noble wyse /
Men don to cryst and to his seintz seruise
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¶ Here endeþ Seint Ceciles Tale /
