And as I trowe / wiþ loue offendid most /
That euer was eny lyues creature /
For sche þat doth me / al þis wo endure
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Ne rekkeþ neuer wheþer I synke or flete
And wel I woot or sche me mercy heete
I moot wiþ strengþe wyn hir in þe place [folio 32b]
And wel I wot/ wiþouten help or grace
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Of þe / ne may my strengthe nought auayle
Then help me lord to morn in my batayle
For þilke fyr that whilom brende þe
As wel as þis fire now brenneþ me
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And do to morn þat I haue þe victorie
Myn be þe trauail al þin be þe glorie
Thy souerein tempul wol I most honouren
Of any place / and al way most labouren
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In þy plesaunce / and þy craftes strong
And in þy tempul I wol my baner hong
And alle þe armes of my companye
And euermore vnto þat day I dye
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Eterne fyr I wol bifore þe fynde
And eek to þis / avow I wol me bynde
My berd myn heer þat hangeth longe a doun
That neuer ȝit ne felt offensioun
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Of rasour ne of schere I wol þe ȝiue
And be þy trewe seruaunt whiles I lyue
lord haue rowþe vppon my sorwes sore
ȝif me þy victorie I aske no more
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The preyer stynt/ of Arcita þe strange
The rynges on þe tempul dore þat hange
And eek the dores clatereden ful fast
Of which arcita som what was agast
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The fires brenden on þe auter bright
That it gan al þe tempul for to light/
A swote smel anon þe ground vp ȝaf
And arcita anon his hand vp haf
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And more encens in to þe fyr ȝet cast
