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¶ fful wrongfully / bigonne thow quod he [folio 195a]
And yet in wrong is thy perseuerance
Wostow nat how oure myghty princes free
Han thus comanded / and maad ordinance
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That euery cristen wight shal han penance
But if that he / his cristendom withseye
And goon al quit. if he wole it reneye
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¶ Yowre princes erren / as youre nobleye dooth
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Quod tho Cecile / and with a wood sentence
Ye make vs gilty / and [it] is nat sooth
ffor ye / that knowen wel oure Innocence
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ffor as muche / as we doon a reuerence
To crist and for we bere a cristen name
Ye putte on vs / a cryme / and eek a blame
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But we that knowen / thilke name so
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ffor vertuous / we may it nat withseye
Almache answerde / chees oon of thise two
Do sacrifice / or cristendom reneye
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That thou mowe now / escapen by that weye
At which / the hooly blisful faire mayde
Gan for to laughe / and to the Iuge sayde
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¶ O Iuge / confus in thy nycetee
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Woltow / that I reneye Innocence
To make me / a wikked wight quod she
Lo / he dissymuleth heere / in Audience
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He stareth / and he woodeth in his Aduertence
To whom Almachius / vnsely wrecche
Ne woostow nat how far my myght may strecche
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