And Malcus ere, þat Peter of smot,
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Heled hit aȝeyn, not chid nor flot. [vv. 811-12 and 813-14 are transp. in the MS.]
Biforen Anna i-lad and Cayphas
Vileynesliche þer I-boffeted was,
And petur þryes wiþ-Inne a þrowe
ffor-sok him, ar cok hedde þries crowe.
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And alle þe Apostles euerichon
A-wey þei fledde, wiþ him lafte non. [vv. 817-18 ought to precede v. 813.]
Of contemplacion at prime: of þe passion, and of þe Resureccion.
Off þe passion þenk at prime,
Of cristes vprist þe same tyme.
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Crist in to a ȝard at prime him [r. he, cf. v. 826.] ladde
And fals witnesse aȝeyn him hadde,
Þat seiden hou he hedde god dispised,
Þe cuntre al tornd and dyuised
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ffrom Ierusalem to Galyléé.
And in his face þen spitten heo,
Þei hudden his face & bobed his hede
And scorned him and bad hym rede
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Ho him smot þo wiþ his fuste.
Nout he ne seide, þouȝ he wel wuste.
Of þe Resurexion.
ÞEnk also at prime, whon crist vp ros—
Þerof wydewhere sprong þe loos—
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Vyue siþes apecred he þat day
To his derlynges, soþ to say:
ffurst to Maudeleyn, þat was him dere,
Whon heo þhoute him a gardynere.
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To hire and oþure, verrement,
As þei comen from his Monument;
And seide "al heil! God saue ȝow."
And siþen to Peter—but we nute how.
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Þe ffeorþe tyme as a straunge pilgrim
To twey disciples, þat knew not him,
Toward Emaus, þe goode Castel;
In bred brekyng þen kneuȝ þei him wel.
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