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[.scilicet Ministres] But they conuerted / at hir wise loore
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Wepten ful soore / and yauen ful credence
Vn-to hire word/ and cryden moore and moore
Crist goddes sone / with-outen difference
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Is verray god / this is oure sentence
That hath so good a seruant/ hym to serue
This with o voys / we trowen / thogh we sterue
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¶ Almachius / that herde of this doynge
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Bad fecchen Cecile / that he myghte hire see
And alderfirst. lo this was his axynge
What maner womman / artow quod he?
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I am a gentil womman born quod she
I axe thee quod he / though it thee greeue
Of thy Religion / and of thy bileeue
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¶ Ye han bigonne / youre question folily
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Quod she / that wolden two answeres conclude
In o demande / ye axed lewedly
Almache answerde / vn-to that similitude
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Of whennes comth / thyn answeryng so rude?
Of whennes quod she /? whan þat she was freyned
Of Conscience / and of good feith vnfeyned
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¶ Almachius seyde / ne takestow noon heede
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Of my power / and she answerde hym
Youre myght quod she / ful litel is to dreede
ffor euery / mortal / mannes power nys
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But lyke a bladdre / ful of wynd ywys
ffor with a nedles poynt whan it is blowe
May al the boost of it be leyd ful lowe
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