Come at þe noun, home, at þe laste."
So dyd þe bere, [bere þan.] euery day,
One oure passed hym neuer away
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Þat he ne come home, þe yche cele [godly] ,
And boþe tymeus [tymes.] he knew hem wele.
Þys Florens hadde cumforte and game
At hys bere, þat hyt was so tame,
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And loued hýt moche with-oute fayle [folio 27b:2]
For þe myracle and þe grete meruayle:
For soþë so [soþe to seye.] hym byrde [moste] ,
For he was a merueylus hyrde.
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A bere þurgh kynde shulde etë shepe;
And here as an hyrde he ȝafe to hem kepe.
Þyt yche merueyle myȝt nat be hyd,
But yn alle þe cuntre hyt was weyl kyde
Þat Florens had a tamë bere,
And was an hyrdë, shepe to were [kepe] .
Þe abbot þat hyghte Eutycyus
Had foure dyscyplys ful enuyus,
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Þat alle day of þys berë spakk
with grete enuye, gretely to lakk;
And seyd, alle fourë hem betwene
wyþ grete enuyë, scorne, and tene,
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"More merueyl doþe Florencyus
Þan doþe oure mayster Eutycyus."
Þey seydë "hyt shal nat so go;"
And made forward, þat bere to slo.
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As þey seyd, þey dyd þat woghte; [O. reads 'wogh,' and then has the two lines— Þe berë in þe felde þey slogh; For gret enuye þus þey wroghte.]
Þe whychë dede ful soure þey boghte.
At þe tyme, þe bere, o day [o day þe bere hom.] come noghte;
Florens had þer-of [þar fore.] grete þoghte;
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He ros and ȝede yn-to þe felde,
