[6-text p 545]
(72)
þere lakkeþ no þinge to þine vtter yȝen
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þat þou nart blinde for þinge þat wee seen all
þat is a stone þat men wele maie aspyen
þat ilke stone a god þou wol it call
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.I. rede þe latt þine honde vpon hit fall
And tast it wele a stone þou schalt it finde
Sens þat þou sixt it not wiþ þine yȝen blinde
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(73)
It is a schame þat þe peple schal
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Schal scoren þe and lauhe att þi folye
For communly wemmen wote it wele ouere al
þat myhte goddes is in his heuenes hihe
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And þes ymages wele þan maistowe aspie
To þe ne to hem self ne maie þei profit
For in hire effecte þei bue nouht worþe a myte
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(74)
þus and suche oþere wordes seide sche
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And he wex wroþe and badde sche scholde be ledde
Home to hire hous and in hir hous quod he
Birne hire riht in a fire wiþ flammes rede
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And as he bad riht so was done þe dede
And in a bathe þei gan hir fast schetten
And nyht and daie grete fire vnder þei maden
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(75)
Al þe longe niht and þe daie also
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For al þe fire and eke þe baþes hete
Sche satt al colde and felt of it no wo
Ne maade hire nouȝt a drope for to swete
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Bot in þat baþe hir lif sche moste lete.
For he Almachius wiþ ful wekked entent [folio 158a]
To sleene hir in þe baþe his sonde sent
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