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¶ Ful wrongefully began þou quod he
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And ȝut in wronge is þi perseuerance
Woste þou nouht howe owre mihti princes fre
Bene þus commanded and maken ordinance
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þat euery cristen whight scha[l] haue penance
Bot if þat he his cristendome wiþ seie
And gone al quyte if he wil it renaye
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¶ Ȝoure Princes erren as ȝoure noblen doþe
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Quod þo Cecile and a woode sentence
ȝe maake us gilti and it is nouht soþe
Fore þat knowen wele oure Innocence
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For as muche as we done a reuerence
To criste; and for we bere a cristen name
ȝe put on vs a crime and eke a blame
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¶ Bot we þat knowen þelk name so
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For vertuous we maie it nouȝt seie
Almachie seide chese one of þes tuo
Do sacrifice or cristendom reneye
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þat þou mowe skapen be þat weie
Att whiche þe holy blisful maide
Gan for to lauhe and to þe Iuge sche saide
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¶ O Iuge confuse in þi nycete
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Wilt þou þat .I. reney Innocence
To maken me a wikked wyht quod sche
Lo he dissimuleþ here in audience
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He stareþ and wodeþ in his aduertence
To whome Almachius seide o vncely wrecche
Ne wost þou not houe fer my miht mai streche
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