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Ye han for sothe / ydoon a greet bataille
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Youre cours is doon / youre feith han ye conserued
Gooth to the corone of lif that may nat faille
The rightful Iuge / which þat ye han serued
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Shal yeue it yow / as ye han it deserued
And whan this thyng was seyd / as I deuyse
Men ledde hem forth / to doon the sacrefise
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But whan they weren / to the place broght
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To tellen shortly / the conclusioun
They nolde encense / ne sacrifise right noght
But on hir knees / they setten hem adoun
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With humble herte / and sad deuocioun
And losten / bothe hir heuedes in the place
Hir soules wenten / to the kyng of grace
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This Maximus / that saugh this thyng bityde [folio 194b]
With pitous teeris / tolde it anon right
That he hir soules / saugh to heuene glyde
With Aungels / ful of cleernesse and of light
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And with this word / conuerted many a wight
ffor which Almachius / dide hym so bete
With whippe of leed / til he the lif gan lete
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¶ Cecile hym toook/ and buryed hym anon
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By Tiburce / and Valerian softely
With-Inne hire buriyng place vnder the stoon
And after this / Almachius hastily
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Bad hise Ministres / fecchen openly
Cecile / so that she myghte in his presence
Doon sacrifice / and Iuppiter encense
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