[6-text p 544]
(68)
Han nought our mighty princes to me y-ȝiuen
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Ȝe bothe power and eek auctorite
To make folk to deyen or to lyuen
why spekestow so proudly þan to me
I speke not but stedefastly quod sche
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Nought proudly for I say as for my syde /
we haten deedly þilke vice of pryde
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(69)
And if þou drede nouȝt a soþ to heere
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Than wol I schewe al openly by right
That þou hast maad a ful greet lesyng heere
Thou saist þy princes han I-ȝiue þe might
Boþe for to sleen and eek to quike a wight
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Thou þat ne maist but oonly lif byreue
Thou hast noon oþer power ne no leue
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(70)
But þou maist sayn þi princes han þe maked
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Minister of deþ for if þou speke of moo
Thow liest for þy power is ful naked
Do way þy lewednes sayd almachius þo
And do sacrifice to oure goddes er þou go [folio 168b]
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I recche nought what wrong þat þou me profre /
For I can suffre it as a philosophre
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But þilke wronges may I not endure
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That þou spekis of oure goddis her quod he
Cecilie answered. O nice creature
Thou saydest no word sins þou spak to me /
That I ne knew þer-wiþ þy nicete /
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And þat þou were in euery maner wise /
A lewed officer a vein Iustise/
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