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vp þar ras a strijf him with
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Men þat war of sundri kith,
þat synagog of iuus held,
Sone þai weint haf steuen feld.
Bot all þair strijf was in vain,
Had þai no might him again,
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wid speche þai gaue him mani turn,
Bot nane might gain him hald a spurn;
þe hali spirit thoru him spack,
In word might þaim noght him ouertak;
All þe men þat sau his chere
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Thoght he was an angel clere.
Tua wittnes had þaim puruayd,
To tell of godd he had missaid
Gain moyses and gain þair lau,
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He said, "queþer es þis soth or vnsau;"
He fined neuer þaim to missay
þe bishop of þair lau, herde say.
Steuin tifted him all bune,
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And þan bigan a gret sarmune,
[folio 130a:1] And þar he proued, wid-vten au,
þat fals it was, all þair on-sau.
For first to loue godd he bigan
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Of moyses, þat dughti man,
And siþen spac he of þair lau,
þat þai it cuth noght seluen knau.
Bot quen he had þaim tald þe soth
þai bigan to gnaist wid toth,
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þam þoght þair hertis brast for tene,
Eth was to kindli þat was kene.
vp he þan lifted eien his,
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"I se," he said, "vr lauerd blis,
And manes sun þar se i stand,
Iesus, bi godd on his right hand."
In furme of man he sau him in,
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His fader and he sum dele in tuin,
