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¶ Down fro the Castel / comth ther many a wight
To gauren on this Shipe / and on Custaunce
But shortly from the Castel / on a nyght
The lordes Styward / god yeue hym meschaunce
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A theef / that hadde reneyed oure creaunce
Cam in to shipe allone / and seyde he sholde
Hir lemman be / wher so she wolde or nolde
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¶ Wo was this wrecched womman tho bigon [folio 125a]
Hir child cryde / and she cryde pitously
But blisful Marie / heelp hire right anon
ffor with hir strogelyng wel and myghtily
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The theef / fil ouer bord / al sodeynly
And in the see / he dreynte for vengeaunce
And thus hath Crist vnwemmed kept Custaunce
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¶ O foule lust of luxurie / lo thyn ende [¶ O. extrema libidinis turp[itudo] que non solum men|tem effemi[nat] set eciam corpus eneruat/ se[mper] sequntur dolor & penitencia post &[c].]
Nat oonly / þat thou fayntest mannes mynde
But verraily / thow wolt his body shende
Thende of thy werk/ or of thy lustes blynde
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Is compleynyng how many oon may men fynde
That noght for werk som tyme / but for thentente
To doon this synne / been outher slayn or shente
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¶ How may this wayke womman / han this strengthe
Hir to defende / agayn this renegat
O. Golias / vnmesurable of lengthe
How myghte dauid / make thee so maat
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So yong and of armure so desolat
How dorste he looke / vp on thy dredful face
Wel may men seen / it was but goddes grace
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¶ Who yaf Iudith / corage / or hardynesse
To sleen hym Olofernus / in his tente
And to deliueren / out of wrecchednesse
The peple of god / I sey for this entente
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