[6-text p 274]
[6-text p 275]
Fortune hadde hym [[? MS byn]] enchauntede so in pride
That verrayly he wende he myghte attayne
On-to the sterris vp-on euery syde
And in a balaunce weyn eche mountayne
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And alle the flodys of the see restrayne
And goddis peple hadde he most in hate
Hem wolde he slen in turnement & in peyne
Wenynge that god ne myghte his pride a-bate
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And for that nychanore & thymothee
With Iewis were venquischid myghtily
Vn-to the Iewis swich an hate hadde he
That he bad ordeyne his char ful hastily
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And swoor & seyde ful dispitously
Vn-to Ierusalem he wolde eft soone
To wreeke his yre on it ful crewelly
But of his purpos he was let ful soone
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God for his manace hym so soore smot
With inuisible wounde ay incurable
That in hise guttis carveit so & bot
That hise peynys were Importable
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And certeynly the wreche was resonable
For manye a manys guttis dede he peyne
But from his purpos cursede & dampnable
For al his smert he wolde hym nat restrayne
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But bad a-noon aparaylyn his host
And sodeynly er he was of it war
God dauntede al his pryde & al his bost
For he so sore fil out of his Chaar
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That 2it hese2 [[2_2 corrected]] lymys & his skyn to-tar
So that he neythir myghte go ne ryde
But in a chaar men a-boute hym bar [folio 360a]
Al forbrosed bothe bak & syde
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