Lines 801 through 900
Þer-of was josophus war þat myche of werr couþe
801
& sette on þe walle side sakkes myd chaf
802
Aȝens þe streyngþe of þe stroke þer þe stones hytte
803
Þat alle dered noȝt a dyȝs bot grete dy[n] made
804
Þe romayns runne to a-non & on roddes knytte
805
Siþes for þe sackes þat selly wer kene
806
Raȝten to þe ropis rent hem in sonder
807
Þat alle dasschande doun in-to þe diche flatten
808
Bot josophus þe gynful her engynes alle
809
Brente with brennande oyle & myche bale wroȝt
810
Waspasian wounded was þer wonderlich sore
811
Þrow þe hard of þe hele with an hande-darte
812
Þat boot þrow þe bote & þe bone nayled
813
Of þe frytted fote in þe folis syde
814
Þat wolden wrecken þe wounde oþer wo habben
816
Þey bowyn to þe barres bekered ȝerne
817
Fouȝt riȝt felly foyned with speres
818
Jo[k]ken jewes þroȝ engynes by þanne
819
Wer manye bent at þe bonke & to þe burwe þrewen
820
Þer wer selcouþes sen as segges mowe here
821
A burne with a balwe-ston was þe brayn cloue
822
Þe gretter pese of þe panne þe pyble forþ strikeþ
823
Þat hit flow in-to þe feld a forlong or more
824
A womman bounden with a barn was on þe body hytte
825
With þe ston o[f] a staf[-slyng] as þe storyj telleþ
826
Þat þe barn out brayde fram þe body clene
827
& was born vp as a bal ouer þe burwe walles
828
Burnes wer brayned & brosed to deþ
829
Wymmen wide open walte vnder stones
830
& many toret doun tilte þe temple a-boute
832
Þe cite had ben seised myd saut at þat tyme
833
Nad þe folke be so fers þat þe fende serued
834
Þat kilden on þe cristen & kepten þe walles
835
With arwes & arblastes & archers manye
836
With speres & spryngoldes sponnen out hard
837
Dryuen dartes a-doun ȝeuen depe woundes
838
Þat manye renke out of rome [by] rest[ing] of þ[e] s[o]nne
839
Was mychel leuer a leche þan layke myd his ton
840
Waspasian stynteþ of þe stour steweþ his burnes
841
Þat wer for-beten & bled vnder bryȝt yren
842
Tyen to her tentis myd tene þat þey hadde
843
Al wery of þat werk & wounded ful sore
844
Helmes & hamberkes hadden of sone
845
Leches by torche-liȝt loken her hurtes
846
Waschen woundes with wyn & with wolle stoppen
847
Suþ euereche a segge to þe soper ȝede
849
Þoȝ þey wounded wer was no wo nempned
850
Bot daunsyng & no deil with dynnyng of pipis
851
& þe nakerer noyse alle þe nyȝt-tyme
852
Whan þe derk was doun & þe day spr[o]ngen
853
Sone after þe sonne sembled þe grete
854
Comen forþ-with þe kyng conseil to her
855
Alle þe knyȝthod clene þat for crist werred
856
Waspasian waiteþ a-wide his wyes byholdeþ
857
Þat wer frescher to fiȝt þan at þe furst tyme
858
Prayeþ princes on ernest & alle þe peple after
859
Þat eche wye of þat werr schold his wille specke
860
For or þis toun be tak & þis toures heye
861
Michel tor[fere] & tene vs tides on hande
862
Þay tourned alle to titus & hym þe tale scheweþ
863
Of þe cite & þe sege to seyn for hem alle
864
Þus to layke with þis les[e folke] vs lympis þe worse
866
For þey ben fel[l]e of defence ferce men & noble
867
& þis toured toun is tenful to wynne
868
Þe worst wrecche in þe wone may on walle lygge
869
Strike doun with a ston & stuny many knyȝtes
870
Whan we schul houe & byholde & litel harme wirche
871
& ay þe loþe of þe layk liȝt on vs-selue
872
Now mowe þey ferke no ferr her fode forto wynne
873
Wolde we stynt of our strif whyle þey her stor ma[r]-den
874
We scholde with [hunger] hem honte to hoke out of toun
875
[with-owttyn weme or wounde or any wo ells]
876
For þer as fayleþ þe fode þer is feynt strengþe
877
& þer as hunger is hote hertes ben feble
878
Alle assenteden to þe sawe þat to þe [sege] longed
879
To þe kyng wer called constables þanne
881
Marchals maser[s] men þat he to tristiþ
882
He chargeþ hem che[f]ly for chaunce þat may falle
883
With wacche of waled men þe walles to kepe
884
For we wol hunten at þe hart þis heþes aboute
885
& hur racches renne a-monge þis rowe bonkes
886
Ride to þe reuer & rer vp þe foules
887
Se faucouns fle fole of þe beste
888
Ech segge to þe solas þat hym-self lyked
889
Princes out of pauelouns presen on stedes
890
Torn[ei]en trifflyn & on þe toun wayten
891
Þis lyf þey ledde longe & [lord] ȝyue vs grace
892
In rome nero haþ now mychel noye wroȝt
893
To deþ pyned þe pope & mychel peple quelled
894
Senek & þe senatours & alle þe cite fured
896
His modir & his my[l]de wif murdred to deþe
897
Combred cristen fele þat on crist leued
898
Þe romayns resen a-non whan þey þ[i]s rewþe seyen
899
To quelle þe emperour quyk þat hem vnquemed hadde
900
