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¶ The ende of this caytif was as I shal seye
His fomen / made a feste vp-on a day
And made hym as hire fool / bifore hem pleye
And this was / in a temple of greet array
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But atte laste / he made a foul affray
ffor he two pilers shook / and made hem falle
And doun fil temple and al / and there it lay
And slow hym self / and eek his fomen alle
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¶ This is to seyn / the Prynces euerychon [folio 90b]
And eek thre thousand bodies / were ther slayn
With fallyng of the grete temple of stoon
Of Sampson / now wol I namoore sayn
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Beth war by this ensample / old and playn
That no men / telle hir conseil / til hir wyues
Of swich thyng as they wolde han secree fayn
If þat it touche / hir lymes / or hir lyues
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[Hercules.]
Of hercules / the souereyn conquerour [¶ Hercules.]
Syngen hise werkes / laude and heigh renoun
ffor in his tyme / of strengthe he was the flour
He slow / and rafte the skyn fro the leoun
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He of Centauros / leyde the boost adown
He Arpies slow / the cruel briddes felle
The golden Apples / rafte of the dragoun
He drow out Cerberus / the hound of helle
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¶ He slow the cruel tyrant Busirus
And made his hors / to frete hym flessh and bon
He slow the firy serpent venymus
Of Achilois two hornes / he brak oon
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And he slow Cakus / in a Caue of stoon
He slow the geant. Antheus the stronge
He slow the grisly boor / and that anon
And bar the heuene / on his nekke longe
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