Lines 301 through 400
Þey setten vpon eche side surrie withyn
301
Brente ay at þe bak & [all] bar laften
302
Was noȝt bot roryng & r[u]th in alle þe riche tounnes
303
& red laschyng lye alle þe londe ouer
304
Token toun & tour teldes ful fele
305
Brosten ȝates of brass & many borwe wonnen
306
Holy þe heþen here hewyn to grounde
307
Boþ in bent & in borwe þat abide wolde
308
Þe jewes to ierusalem þ[ere] josephus dwelde
309
Flowen as þe foule doþ þat faucoun wolde strike
310
A cite vnder syon sett was ful noble
311
Princes & prelates & poreil of þe londe
313
Clerkes & comens of contrees aboute
314
Wer schacked to þat cite sacrifice to make
315
At paske tyme as preched hem prestes of þe lawe
316
Many swykel at þe sweng to þe swerd ȝede
317
For penyes passed non þoȝ he pay wolde
318
Bot diden alle to þe deþe & drowen hem after
319
With engynes to jerusalem þer jewes wer þykke
320
Þey sette sadly a sege þe cite alle aboute
321
Piȝten pauelouns doun of pallen webbes
322
With ropis of riche silk raysen vp swyþe
323
Grete tentis as a toun of torke[is] cloþys
324
Choppyn ouer þe cheuentayns with charboklis four
325
A gay egle of gold on a gilde appul
326
With grete dragouns grym alle in gold wroȝte
327
Lyk to lyouns also lyande þervnder
328
Paled & paynted þe paueloun was vmbe
329
Stoked ful of storijs strayned myd armys
330
Of quaynte colour to know kerneld alofte
331
Toured with torettes was þe tente þanne
333
Suþ britaged aboute briȝt to byholde
334
Er alle þe sege was sette ȝit of þe cite comyn
335
Messengeres wer made fram maistres of þe lawe
336
To þe chef cheuentayn þey chosen her wey
337
Deden mekly by mouþe her message attonys
338
Sayen þe cite haþ [vs] sent to serche ȝour wille
339
To here þe cause of ȝour comyng [& what] ȝe coueyte wolde
340
Waspasian no word to þe wyes schewed
341
Bot sendeþ sondismen aȝen twelf siker knyȝtes
342
[gert hem greithely] to go & þe gomes telle
343
Þat alle þe cause of her com[e] was crist forto venge
344
Sayþ y bidde hem be boun bishopes & oþer
345
Tomorow or [mydday] [alle modur-nakyd]
346
Vp her ȝates to ȝelde with ȝerdes an hande
347
Eche whiȝt in a white scherte & no wede ellys
348
Jewyse for iesu crist by juggement to take
349
Or y to þe walles schal wende & walten alle ouere
351
Schal no ston vpon ston stonde by y passe
352
Þis sondismen sadly to þe cite ȝede
353
Þer þe lordes of þe londe lent weren alle
354
Tit tolden her tale & wonder towe made
355
Of crist & of cayphas & how þey come scholde
356
& when þe knyȝtes of crist carpyn bygonn
357
Þe jewes token alle twelf without tale mor
358
Her hondis bounden at her bak with borden stauys
359
And of flocken her fa[x] & her fair berdis
360
Made hem naked as a nedel to þe neþer houe
361
Her visages blecken with bleche & al þe body after
362
Suþ knyt with a corde to eche knyȝtes swer
363
A chese & charged hem her chyuentayn to ber
364
Sayþ vnbuxum we beþ his biddyng to ȝete
365
Ne noȝt dreden his dom his deþ haue we atled
366
He schal vs fynde in þe felde ne no ferr seke
367
Tomorowe pryme or hit passe & so ȝour prince telliþ
368
Aȝen message to make fram þe maister jewes
370
Was neuer waspasian so wroþe as whan þe wyes come
371
Þat wer scorned & schende vpon schame wyse
372
Þis knyȝtes byfor þe kyng vpon knees fallen
373
& tolden þe tale as hit tid hadde
374
Of þy manace ne þy myȝt þey make bot lyte
375
Þus ben we tourned of our tyre in tokne of þe soþe
376
& bounden for our bolde speche þe batail þey willeþ
377
Tomorowe prime or hit passe þey put hit no ferre
378
Hit schal be satled on þy-self þe same þat þou atlest
379
Þus han þey certifiet þe [to saye] & sende þe þis cheses
380
Wode wedande wroþ waspasian was þanne
381
Layde wecche to þe walle & warned in haste
382
Þat alle maner of men in þe morowe scholde
383
Be sone after þe sonne assembled in þe felde
384
He streyȝt up a standard in a stour wyse
385
Bild as a belfray bretful of wepne
386
Whan oȝt fauted in þe folke þat to þe feld longed
387
A dragoun was dressed drawyn a lofte
389
Wyde gapande of gold gomes to swelwe
390
With arwes armed in þe mouþe & also he hadde
391
A fauch[ou]n vnder his feet with four kene bladdys
392
Þerof þe poyntes wer piȝt in partyis four
393
Of þis wlonfulle wor[l]de þer þei werr fondyn
394
In forbesyn to þe folke þis fauchoun hengeþ
395
Þat þey hadde wonnen with [werre] al þe world riche
396
A bal of brennande gold þe beste was on sette
397
His taille trayled þer aboute þat tourne scholde he neuere
398
Whan he was lifte vp[his liche] þer þe lord werred
399
Bot ay lokande on þe londe tille þat al lauȝte wer
400
