[6-text p 274]
¶ Nought oonly þat þis world had of him awe /
ffor lesyng of Richesse and liberte
But he made euery man reneye his lawe /
Nabugodonosor was lord sayde
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Non oþer god schulde honoured be
Aȝeins his heste no wight dar trespace /
Saue in Bethulya a strang Cite
Where Elyachim a prest was of þat place
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¶ But take keepe of þe deþ of Olypherne
Amydde his hoste he drunke lay a nyght
Wiþinne his tente large as is a berne /
And ȝet for alle his pompe and alle his might
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Iudith a womman as he lay vpright
Slepyng his heed of smot and fro his tent /
fful pryuyly sche stal fro euery wight
. . . . . [no gap in the MS.]
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[Antiochus.]
¶ What needeþ it of king antiochus [¶ De antiochio illustri.]
To telle his heihe and real mageste
his heighe pruyde his werkes venymous
ffor such anoþer nas neuer non as he
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Redeþ which þat he was in Machabe
And redeþ þe proude wordes þat he sayde
And why he felle fro his prosperite
And in an hulle how wrecchedly he deyde
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¶ ffortune him hadde enhaunced so in pruyde
þat verrayly he wende he mighte atteyne
vnto þe sterres vpon euery syde
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And in a balaunce to weye vche mountayne / [folio 244b]
And alle þe floodes of þe see restreyne
And goddes poeple hadde he most in hate
Hem wolde he sle in torment and peyne /
Wenyng þat god ne might his pruyde abate
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