[6-text p 259]
The ende of this caytyf was as I schal seye
Hise fomen made / a feste vp-on a day
And made hym as a fool / by-fore hem pleye
And this was in a temple / of greet aray
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But at the laste he maade a foul affray [folio 353b]
For he two pilleris schok / & made hem falle
And doun fil temple & al there it lay
And slow hym self & ek hise fo-men alle
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This is to seyne the pryncis euerychon
And ek thre hunderede bodyis weere theere slayn
With fallynge of the greete temple of stoon
Of Sampsoun wele I no moore seyn
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Beth war bi this 1exsaummple olde & pleyn1 [[1_1 later]]
That no man telle here conseyl to here wyuys
Of swich thyng as they wele haue secre fayn
If that it touche / hire / lymys or hire lyuys
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[Hercules.]
Of Hercules the souereyn conquerour [¶ Hercules]
Syngyn his laude his werkis & his renoun
For in his tyme of [[of corrected]] strenthe he was the flour
He slow & rafte the skyn from the lyoun
He of Centauros leyde the beste a-doun
He arpijs slow the crewel briddys felle
He goldene appillis / rafte of the dragoun
He drow out Cerberus out of helle
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He slow the crewel tyraunt Busirus
And made his hors to frete hym flesch & boon
He slow the fery serpent venymous
Of Achilois hornys 3too / he brak on3 [[3_3 corrected]]
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And he slow Cakus in a Caue of stoon.
He slow the geaunt Antheus the stronge
He slow the gresely boor & that a-noon
And bar the heed vp-on his spere longe
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