shalt thou seen that thise felonous tyraunts, that the wrecchede
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peple dredeth, now shollen ben exyled fro thilke fayre contree.'
Me. I. 1. C. swife (for swifte). 4. A. heyȝenesse (for roundnesse); Lat. globum. // A. hir (for his). 6. A. til that she areisith hir in-til ... hir weyes. 9. C. saturnis; A. saturnus. // A. she (for he). 10. A. soule (for thought); twice. 12. C. alle; A. alle the; Ed. al the. 13. Ed. ypaynted; A. depeynted. 16. A. And whan the soule hath gon ynouȝ she shal forleten the last poynt of the heuene, and she. 17. A. Ed. wenden; C. wyndyn. 18. A. she (for he). 18, 19. C. Ed. worshipful lyht; A. dredefulle clerenesse. // A. haldeth. 20. A. this; for the (2). 22. A. om. or wayn. 25. C. requerest; Ed. requirest; A. requeredest. 27. A. lyke (for lyketh). 28. C. dyrknesses; A. derkenesse; Lat. noctem.
Prose II.
Tum ego, Papae, inquam.
Than seyde I thus: '[owh!] I wondre me that thou bihetest me
so grete thinges; ne I ne doute nat that thou ne mayst wel
performe that thou bihetest. But I preye thee only this, that
thou ne tarye nat to telle me thilke thinges that thou hast