He shal be cursed as be captyves,
To hell they sayn that he shall fall.
There was more mercy in Maximien,
And in Nero, that never was good,
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Than [there] is now in some of †hem
Whan he hath on his furred hood.
They folowe Christ that shedde his blood
To heven, as bucket in-to the wall;
Suche wreches ben worse than wood;