[6-text p 541]
(56)
Ȝe han forsoþe y-doon a greet batayle /
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Ȝoure cours is doon ȝoure faith han ȝe conserued
Goþ to þe coroun of lyf þat may not fayle /
The rightful iugge which þat ȝe han serued
Schal ȝeue it ȝow as ȝe han it deserued
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And whan þis þing was sayd as I deuyse
Men ladde hem forþ to doon þe sacrifise /
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(57)
But/ whan þey were to þe place y-brouȝt
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To telle schortly þe conclusioun
They nolde encense ne sacrifice right nought
But on her knees þey setten hem adoun
wiþ humble hert and sad deuocioun
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And leften boþe her heedes in þe place
here soules wenten to þe king of grace /
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(58)
This maximus þat say þis king betyde /
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wiþ pitous teeres tolde it anoon right
That he here soules saugh to heuen glyde
with aungels ful of clernes and of light
And with his word conuerted many a wight
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For which almachius dede him so bete
with whippes of leed til he his lif gan lete /
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(59)
Cecilie him took and buried him anoon
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By Thiburce and valirian softely
wiþinne hire berieng place vnder þe stoon
And after þis almachius hastily
Bad his ministres fecchen openly
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Cecilie. so þat sche might in his presence [folio 167b]
Doon sacrifice and Iubiter encense /
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