The Vyleyn: [[St., veleyne Tib., om. C.]]
'Thow gest [[geste Tib., getst St.]] no mor, as now, for me;
But off O thyng I warnë the;
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Yiff thow in thys place abyde,
Myn ax shal thorgh thy nekkë glyde,
But yiff [[ȝeue Tib.]] thow do to myn Imáge,
Lowly worshepe and homáge.
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Ches yiff [[ȝeue Tib.]] the lyst, and lat me se,
ffor thow gest [[getest St., geste Tib.]] no mor off me.'
The Pylgryme: [[Tib., Pilgrim St., om. C.]]
Than I stood in fful gret doute.
And as I tournede me aboute,
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Myd off thys Ile that I off tolde,
And euery party gan beholde,
Myd off thys se, lookyng ech way
How I myhte eskape a-way;
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And to-for myn Eye [[eyne St.]] I fond [Tib folio 69a]
A Maryssh, or elles a merssh [[mershe St.]] lond,
That peryllous was, and ful profounde,
And off ffylthës ryht habounde.
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And thyder-ward as [[was C.]] I gan hye
A vekkë Old me dyde espye,
Komyng with an owgly cher; [Stowe folio 341b]
Vp-on hyr hed, a gret paner;
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In hyr ryht hand (as I was war,)
An hand kut off, me sempte she bar.
And, or any hede I took, [[I took Tib. (C. burnt), she toke St.]] [folio 273a]
She kauhte me 10with a crokyd hooke.10 [[10_10 Tib. (C. burnt), hoke St.]] [[Blank in MS. for an Illumination, given in Tib. The old Witch has, in her left hand, a long stick, hookt under the Pilgrim's left armpit; and her right hand grasps a big cut-off hand by its wrist.]]
And as she gan me fastë holde,
I axede hyre what that she wolde,
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And make [[make C., Tib., St.]] a declaracïoun
Off name and off condycïoun.
¶ Sorcerye: [[Tib., St., om. C.]]
Quod she: 'vnderstond me thus;
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My namë ys 'Bythálassus,' [[bythalassus Tib., Bythassus C., St.]]
Wych ys to seynë, (who lyst [[lyste Tib., lyst C., St.]] se)
