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¶ The ende of þis caitifs was as .I. schal seie
His fomen maade a feste vpon a daie
And maden him as her fole to-forne him pleie
And þis was [in] a temple of a grete araie
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Bot att þe last he maade a foul affraie
For he tuo postes schoke & maade hem fall
And doune fell þe temple & al þer it laie
And slowe him selfe & eke his fomen all
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¶ This is to seie þe princes euerychon
And eke a þousand bodis was þere sleyne
Wyþ fallinge of þe grete temple of stone
Of Sampson ne wil .I. no more seyne
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Be ware of þis ensample olde & pleyne
þat no man tel her counsel til he[r] wyues
Of suche þinge as þe wolde haue secre feyne
If þat it touche her lymes or her lyues
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De Ercule.
¶ Of Ercule þe souereine conqueroure
Syngen his werkes lewde & hihe renonone
For in his time of strengeþ he bare þe floure
He slowhe & raft þe scynne fro þe lyone.
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He of Centaurus leide þe bost a doune [[ [folio 209a] It repeats ¶ He slouhe & raft þe skynne fro þe lyon]]
He arpies slowhe þe cruel birdes fell
He golden apelles raft þe dragoune
He drouhe oute Serberous þe hounde of hell
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¶ He slowhe þe cruel tyrant Buserus
And maade his hors to frete him flesche & bone
He slouhe þe verrey serpent venemous
Of Achilles tuo hornes brak he one
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And he slowhe Cacus in a kaue of stone
He slowhe þe Gyant Anteus þe stronge
He slowhe þe Grisely bore & þat anone
And bare þe hede vpon his neke longe
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