[6-text p 541]
(56)
ȝe han forsothe don a greet batayle / [folio 378b]
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ȝoure cours is don / ȝoure feyth haue ȝe conseruyd
Goth to the coroun of lyf that may nat fayle
The rightful Iuge / which that ȝe han seruyd
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Schal ȝeue it ȝow right as ȝe han [[dis in the margin]] seruyd
And whan this thyng was seyd as I deuyse
Men ledde hem forth / to don the sacrifise
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(57)
But whan they weere to the place brought
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To tellyn schortely the conclusyoun
The nolde encense [[first ensense]] ne sacrifise right noght
But on here kneis they settyn hem a-doun
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With humble herte & sad deuocioun
And leftyn bothe here heuedis in the place
Here soulis wentyn to the kyng of grace
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(58)
This Maximus that saw this thyng betyde
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With pituse teris tolde it a-non right
That he here soulis saw to heuene glyde
With aungellis ful of cleernesse & of ligh
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And with his word conuertede manye a wight
ffor whiche Almachius dide hym so beete
With whippe of leed til he his lyf gan lete
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Cecile hym tok & buried a-non
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Bi Tiburce & Valirian softely
With-inne hire buriinge place vndyr the stoon
And aftyr this Almathius hastili
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Bad hise mynystris fightyn opynly
Cecile so that sche myghte in hise presence
Don sacrifise & Iupiter encence
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