[6-text p 269] , [6-text p 270]
Dampned was he / to dyen in that prison
ffor Roger / which þat Bisshope was of Pize
Hadde on hym maad / a fals suggestion
Thurgh which / the peple / gan vpon hym rise
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And putten hym to prison / in swich wise
As ye han herd / and mete / and drynke he hadde
So smal / that vnnethe it may suffise
And therwith-al / it was ful poure and badde
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And on a day / bifil / þat in that hour
Whan þat his mete / wont was to be broght
The Gayler shette the dores of the tour
He herde it wel / but he spak right noght
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And in his herte / anon ther fil a thoght/
That they for hunger / wolde doon hym dyen
Allas quod he / allas that I was wroght
Ther-with / the teeris fillen from hise eyen
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His yonge sone / that thre yeer was of age
Vn-to hym seyde / fader / fader // why do ye wepe
Whanne wol the Gayler / bryngen oure potage
Is ther no morsel breed / that ye do kepe
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I am so hungry / that I may nat slepe
Now wolde god / that I myghte slepen euere
Thanne sholde nat hunger / in my wombe crepe
Ther is no thyng but breed / that me were leuere
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Thus day by day / this child bigan to crye
Til in his fadres barm / adoun it lay
And seyde / fare wel fader / I moot dye
And kiste his fader/ and dyde the same day
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And whan the woful fader/ deed it say
ffor wo / hise Armes two / he gan to byte
And seyde / Allas ffortune and weylaway [folio 182a]
Thy false wheel / my wo al may I wyte
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