[6-text p 542]
(60)
But they conuertid at here wise loore
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Weptyn ful soore & ȝeuyn ful credence
Vn-to hire word & cryedyn moore & moore
Crist goddis sone with-outyn difference
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Is verray goddys sone this al oure centence
That hath so good a seruaunt hym to serue
This with on vois we trowyn thow we sterue
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(61)
Almachius that herde al this doing [folio 379a]
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Bad feche Cecile that he myghte hire se
And aldyr ferst lo this was his axsyng
What manere woman art thow quod he
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I am a gentil woman born quod sche
I axe the quod he thow it the greeue
Of thyn religioun & of thin beleeue
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ȝe han begunne ȝoure questioun folyly
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Quod sche that woldyn to answeris conclude
In on demaunde ȝe axsyn lewedely
Almache answerede vnto that simylitude
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Of whens comyth thyn answerynge so rude
Of whens quod sche / whan that sche was freynyd
Of concience & of good feyth vnfeynyd
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Almachius seyde ne takist thow noon hede
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Of myn powere & sche answerde him thus
ȝoure myght quod sche ful lytil is to drede
ffor euery manys mortal power nys
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But lyk a bladdere ful of wynd I-wis
ffor with a nedellis poynt whan it is blowe
May al the bost of it been leyd ful lowe
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