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Capitulum octavum. Tiberius.
TYBERIUS Constantinus was emperour sevene ȝere. Þis was myldeste of alle men, and ȝaf þe tresour of þe [þat, γ.] paleys to pore men, þerfore his wif blamede hym ofte, and me seiþ þat he an|swerde here in þis manere: "I [Y, β.] triste in oure Lord þat money schal nouȝt faile us at oure nede [neode, γ.] ȝif we doo [doþ, γ.; put, Cx.] oure tresour in hevene." Þanne he passede in a day bisides þe emperoures paleys at Constantynnoble, and sigh a cros i-grave in þe pave|ment [pament, β. and γ.; paviment, Cx.] of marbilston, and hym semede þat he was nouȝt worþy to be [be] om. α. and Cx.] trode [trede, α., β., γ., and Cx.] wiþ his feet [veet, γ.] [and specially] [From Cx.] uppon þat [þat] [From α., γ., and Cx.] schulde be printed [preented, α.; prented, γ.] in þe forhedes [vorhedes, γ.] of mankynde, and took up þat stoon, and sigh anoþer [y-grave [grave, Cx.] in þe same wyse, and þo he syȝ þe þrydde in þe same wyse] [From α. and Cx.] i-grave, and haf [haf] toke, Cx.] it up, and fond [op and vond, γ.] þereunder tresoure wiþ outen ende. Pope Iohn deide; on his tombe it was i-wrete [is wreton, Cx.] in metre in þis