Lines 1101 through 1200
After [þay] touche of trewe to trete with þe lord
1101
Bot Titus graunteþ noȝt for gile þat þe gomes þenke
1102
For he is wise þat is war or hym wo hape
1103
& with falsede a-fer is fairest to dele
1104
To worchyn vnder þe wal w[a]yes þey casten
1105
Whan Tytus nold no trewe to þe toun graunte
1106
With mynours & masouns myne þey bygonne
1107
Grobben faste [i]n þe grounde & god ȝyue vs joye
1108
As Tytus after [on] a tyme vmbe þe toun r[i]deþ
1109
Alle outwith þe ost out of a kaue
1111
Vp a buschment brake alle of briȝt hedis
1112
Fyf hundred fiȝtyng men fellen hem aboute
1113
In jepouns & jambers Jewes þey wer
1114
Hadde wroȝt hem a wey & þe wal myned
1115
& Titus tourneþ hem to without tale mor
1116
Schaftes schedred wer sone & scheldes yþrelled
1117
[And many schalke thurghe schotte with þe scharpe ende]
1118
Brunyes & briȝt wede blody by-runne
1119
& many segge at þat saute souȝte to þe grounde
1120
Hacchen vpon hard steel with an herty wylle
1121
Þat fur out flowe as of flynt stonys
1122
Of þe helm & þe hed hewen at-tonys
1123
Þe stompe vnder stede feet in þe steel leueþ
1124
Þe ȝong duk Domycian of þe dyn herde
1125
Ffel on þe fals folke vmbe-feldes hem sone
1127
As bestes bretnes hem alle & haþ his broþer holpen
1128
Þan Titus toward his tentis tourneþ hym sone
1129
Makeþ mynour[s] & men þe myne to stoppe
1130
After profreþ pes for pyte þat he hadde
1131
Whan he wist of her wo þat wer withyn stoken
1132
Bot Jon þe jenfulle þat þe Jewes ladde
1133
An oþer Symond of his assent forsoke þe profre
1134
Sayn leuer in þis lif lengen hem wer
1135
Þan any renke out of Rome [re]joycid her sorowe
1136
Sale in þe cite was cesed with þanne
1137
Was noȝt for besauntes to bye þat men bite myȝt
1138
For a ferþyng-worþ of fode floryns an hundred
1139
Princes profren in þe toun to pay in þe fuste
1140
Bot alle was boteles bale f[or] who so bred hadde
1141
Nold a goet haue [g]ouen for goode vpon [erþ]e
1142
Ffeynte & fallen doun þat so fair wer
1144
S[ome] swallen as swyn som swart wexen
1145
Som lene on to loke as la[n]terne-hornes
1146
Þe morayne was so myche þat no man couþe telle
1147
Wher to burie in þe burwe þe bodies þat wer ded
1148
Bot wenten with hem to þe walle & walten [hem o]uere
1149
In-to þe depe of þe diche þe ded doun fallen
1150
Whan Titus told was þe tale to trewe god he vouched
1151
Þat [he] hadde profred hem pes & grete pite hadde
1152
Þo praied he Josophus to preche þe peple [to en-forme]
1153
[For] to saue hemself & þe cite ȝelde
1154
Bot Jon forsoke þe sawe so for to wyrche
1155
With Symond þat oþer segge þat þe cyte ladde
1156
Myche peple for þe prechyng at þe posterne ȝatis
1157
To for[g]yue hem þe gult þat þey to god wroȝt
1159
& he graunteþ hem grace & gaylers bytauȝt
1160
Bot whan þey metten with mete vnmyȝty þey wer
1161
Any fode to defye so faynt was her strengþe
1162
Fful þe gottes of gold eche gome hadde
1163
Lest fomen fongen hem schold her floreyns þey eten
1164
Whan hit was broȝt vp abrode & þe bourd aspyed
1165
[Wiþou]ten leue of þat lord ledes hem slowen
1166
[G]oren euereche a gome & þe gold taken
1167
Ffayn[ere] of þe floreyns [þan of] þe frekes alle
1168
Ay wer þe ȝates vn[ȝ]et tille two ȝeres ende
1169
So longe þey [s]ouȝt hit by sege or þey þe [cite] hadde
1170
Eleuen hundred þousand Jewes in þe mene whyle
1171
Swalten while þe sweng last by swerd & by hunger
1172
Now Titus conseil haþ take þe toun to assayle
1173
Neuer pyte ne pees profre hem more
1175
Ne gome þat he gete may to no grace taken
1176
[þei] armen hem as tyt alle for þe werr
1177
Tyen euen to þe toun with trompis & pypys
1178
With nakerers & grete noyce neȝen þe walles
1179
Þer many styf man & stour stondiþ alofte
1180
Sir Sabyn of Surrye on a syde ȝede
1181
Þe ȝong duke Domycian drow to an oþer
1182
XV þousand [fiȝtynge] men eche freke hadde
1183
With many maner of engyne & mynours ynowe
1184
Tytus at þe toun ȝate with ten þousand helmes
1185
Merkeþ mynour[s] at þe wal wher þey myne scholde
1186
On ech side for þe assaute setteþ engynes
1187
& bold-brayned men in belfrayes heye
1188
Was noȝt bot dyn & dyt as alle deye scholde
1189
At eche kernel was cry & quasschyng of wepne
1191
& many burne atte brayd brayned to deþ
1192
Sir Sabyn of Surrye whyle þe saute laste
1193
Leyþ a ladder to þe wal & alofte clymyþ
1194
Wendeþ wyȝtly þeron þoȝ hym wo happned
1195
& vp stondiþ for ston[es] or for steel gere
1196
Syx he slow on þe wal sir Sabyn alone
1197
Þe seueþ hitteþ on hym an vnhende dynte
1198
Þat þe brayn out brast at boþ nose-þrylles
1199
& Sabyn ded of þe dynt in-to þe diche falleþ
1200
