[6-text p 289]
As soone as day / he wente out of the toun
¶ This man / gan fallen in suspecioun
Remembrynge / on hise dremes / þat he mette
And forth he gooth / no lenger wolde he lette
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Vn-to the westgate of the toun / and fond
A dong Carte / as it were to donge lond
That was arrayed / in that same wise
As ye han herd / the dede man deuyse
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And with an hardy herte / he gan to crye
Vengeance and Iustice / of this felonye
My felawe / mordred is / this same nyght
And in this Carte / heere he lith gapyng vpright
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I crye out on the Ministres quod he
That sholden kepe / and reulen this Citee
Harrow allas / heere lith my felawe slayn
What sholde I moore / vn-to this tale sayn
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The peple out sterte / and caste the Cart to grounde
And in the myddel of the dong they founde
The dede man / that mordred was al newe
O blisful god / that art so Iust and trewe [¶ Auctor]
Lo / howe þat thou biwreyest mordre alway
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Mordre wol out / that se we day by day
Mordre / is so wlatsom / and abhomynable
To god / that is so Iust and resonable
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That he / ne wol nat/ suffre it heled be
Though it abyde / a yeer / or two / or thre
Mordre wol out this my conclusioun [folio 185b]
And right anon / Ministres of that toun
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Han hent the Carter / and so soore hym pyned
And eek the hostiler / so soore engyned
That they biknewe / hire wikkednesse anon
And were an-hanged / by the nekke bon
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¶ Heere may men seen / þat dremes been to drede
And certes / in the same book / I rede
Right in the nexte Chapitre after this
I gabbe nat. so haue I ioye or blis
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