And in hem greet [and hy] sentence;

And folk of digne reverence,

Of whiche I wol yow telle fonde,

Upon the piler saugh I stonde.

Alderfirst, lo, ther I sigh,

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Upon a piler stonde on high,

That was of [lede] and yren fyn,

Him of secte Saturnyn,

[The Ebrayk Iosephus], the olde,