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¶ But they conuerted / at hir wise loore
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Wepten ful sore / and yauen ful credence
Vn to hir word / and cryden moore & moore
Crist goddes sone / with outen difference
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Is verray god / this is al oure sentence
That hath so good a seruant / hym to serue
This with o voys / we trowen / thogh we sterue
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[ [Rats.] [folio 171b] Alm]achius / that herde of this doynge
Bad fecchen Cecilie / that he myghte hir se
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 / thogh it the greue
Of thy religion / and of thy bileue
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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
Almachie answerde / vn to that similitude
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Of whennes comth / thyn answeryng so rude
Of whennes quod she / whan that she was freyned
Of conscience / and of good feith vnfeyned
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¶ Almachius seyde / ne takestow noon hede
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Of my power / and she answerde hym / this
Youre myght quod she / ful litel is to drede
ffor euery / mortal mannes power nys
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But lyk a bladdre / ful of wynd ywis
ffor with a nedles point whan it is blowe
May al the boost of it be leyd ful lowe
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