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Valerius tellis & says how þat, som tyme [MS. adds som while here.] , certayn̛ folk̘, for to assecute euerlastand̛ memorie, dowtis not for to do grete
trispas, whase namys he said̛ þat he kennyd̛ nott. So þer was a man̛ þat spirrid̛ Ermodeus how clere he might be had̛ [Lat. MSS. quo modo subito clarus posset haberi.] ; he ansswerd̛ agayn̛ & said̛, þat & he slew any wurthi man̛, it suld̛ turn̛ hym̛ vnto grete [MS. repeats grete.] glorie. And so he slew one þat hight Philipp̛, and he was taken̛ & putt to dead̛ þerfor̛. And after-ward it was fon̛ þat he did̛ it be commandment of þe Dyan̛ of Ephesie [Harl. MS. Sic eciam inuentum est, quod Diane Ephesei sic templum incendere uellet, ut opere pulcherrimo consumpto nomen suum per totum orbem innotesceret.] , for sho wolde hafe burnyd̛ þe temple. et c̛.