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¶ It were ful hard / by ordre for to seyn [folio 194a]
How manye wondres / Ihesus for hem wroghte
But atte laste / to tellen short and pleyn
The sergeantz / of the toun of Rome hem soghte
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And hem / biforn Almache the Prefect broghte
Which hem opposed / and knew al hire entente
And to the ymage / of Iuppiter hem sente
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And seyde / who so wol nat sacrifise
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Swape of his heed / this my sentence heer
Anon thise martirs þat I yow deuyse
Oon Maximus / that was an Officer
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Of the Prefectes / and his Corniculer
Hem hente / and whan he forth the Seintes ladde
Hym self he weepe / for pitee that he hadde
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Whan Maximus / had herd the Seintes loore
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He gat hym / of the tormentours leue
And ladde hem to his hous / with-oute moore
And with hir prechyng er that it were eue
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They gonnen / fro the tormentours to reue
And fro Maxime / and fro his folk echone
The false feith / to trowe in god allone
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¶ Cecile cam / whan it was woxen nyght
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With preestes / that hem cristned alle yfeere
And afterward / whan day was woxen light
Cecile hem seyde / with a ful stedefast cheere
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Now Cristes owene knyghtes / leeue and deere
Cast alle awey / the werkes of derknesse
And Armeth yow / in Armure of brightnesse
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