To whom Crist bad thei scholden preche
To al the world and his feith teche:
Bot now thei rucken in here nest
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In all the swetnesse of delices.
Thus thei defenden ous the vices,
P. ii. 58
And sitte hemselven al amidde;
To slen and feihten thei ous bidde
Hem whom thei scholde, as the bok seith,