After this Emma and her eme departed them from the Bishop and leaving Cologne journeyed to Rome, where they be come after much travail and journeying. And Emma has made confession to the Pope with weeping eyes, saying:
O God’s vice-gerent, yea, God on earth, as we be told,
A sinner worse than I earth doth not hold;
Shut out from the bar of Heaven I be.
THE POPE
Wherefore, my child?
EMMA
The devil’s amie
I have been yea more than seven year
And with him have wandered far or near