[6-text p 542]
(60)
¶ Bot þei conuerted þorwhe here wise lore
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Wepten sore and ȝaf credence
Vnto her worde and cryden more and more
Crist god son with outen difference
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Is verrey god. þis is al oure sentence
þat haþe so good a seruant him to serue
þus wiþ o voice; we trowe þei we sterue
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(61)
Almachius þat herd al þis
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Bad fecche Cecile þat he miht hir see
And alþer ferst lo þis was his askeinge
What maner womman ert þou þo quod he
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.I. am gentill womman borne quod sche
.I. ax quod he þouhe it þe greue
Of þi religion and of þi be-leue
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(62)
Whi þan be-gan ȝoure questione folilye
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quod sche þat woldest þou ansewere conclude
In o demande ȝe axed lewdly
Almachius anseward to þat similitude
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[Of whens comthe thin Answer so rude [Harl. 7333 folio 88b] ]
Of whense quod sche when þat sche was refreynede
Of concience and of good feiþe vnfeynede
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(63)
Almachius seide takest þou none hede
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Of þin Ansewere and sche him ansewerd þus
Ȝoure myhte quod sche litel is to drede
For euery mo[r]tel manesse power ne is
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Bot y-lyke a bledder ful of wynde y-wis
For wiþ a nedeles point whan þat is blowe [folio 157a]
Maie al þe bost of it be leid ful lowe
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