Scho soght þeder þe sight to se
And trowed no vertu in þe tre;
Hir thoght it was scorne in hir wit
Þat oþer men so honord it;
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Maximilla was hir name, [folio 80:2]
Scho sat þaron hir self to schame,
And for scho trowed no might þarin;
Hir clathes biliue bigan to brin
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Als herdes þat had bene right dry,
Þan cried scho loud, thurgh prophecy,
And said, "my lord mighty ihesu
Haue mercy and on me þou rew."
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When þe iews herd hir on ihesu call,
Grete tene in hert þan had þai all;
Þai said "scho sklanders oure goddes euyn
For a new god we here hir neuyn";
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Þai bad þat bald men suld be boune
To haue hir tite out of þe toune,
And sune, with-outen oþer rede,
Þai staned hir vnto þe ded;
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Scho was þe first þat suferd schame
For þe neueni[n]g of ihesu name.
It was þaire custum, als men knew,
Þat who so neuind þat name ihesu,
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He suld be staned to ded als sone
And so was with þat woman done.
De probatica piscina.
Ful many when þai saw þis sight
Honord þe tre with all þaire might,
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And þarto made þai more loueing
Þan vntill any oþer thing;
Þarfore þe iews thoght grete despite,
And to þat tre þai went ful tyte;
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Out of þe toun þai did it draw,
For men þar-in no might suld knaw,
For þai saw grete worde of it went,
