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¶ A certeine tresoure þat sche þeder ladde
And soþe to seine vital grete plente
Þei hane here ȝeuen and cloþes eke sche hadde [folio 70b]
And forþ sche saileþ in þe salte see
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O my Custance fful of benignite
O . Emperours ȝonge douhter dere
He þat is lorde ouere fortune he þe steere
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¶ Sche blisseþ and wiþ ful pitous voyce
Vn to þe croys of crist þus seide sche
O clere o welful auter holy croyce
Rede of þe lambes blode ful of pite
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Þat whisse þe werlde fro þe olde iniquite
Me fro þe fende and fro his clowes kepe
þat daie þat .I. schal drenchen in þe depe
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¶ Victorious tree proteccion of trewe
Þat oonely worþi war for to bere
Þe kinge of heuen wiþ his wondes newe
Þe wyght lambe þat hurt was wiþ a spere
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fflemer of frendes oute of him and here
On whiche þi lynes faiþfuly extenden
Me kep and ȝife me myht my lyf to amenden
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¶ Ȝeres and dayes fleteþ þis creature
Þoruhe owte þe see of grece vnto þe streite
Of Marrok as it as it was hir auenture
O many a sory mele noue maie sche baite
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Affter her deþ ful oft mai sche waite
Or þat þe wilde wawes wil hir drive
Vn to þe place þare sche schal ariue
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¶ Men myht axen whi sche was nouȝt sleine
Eke att þe feste who myht hir body saue
.I. answere to þat demande aȝeine
Who saue Danyel in þe horrible caue
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