Episcopus. Why, let se than, sey me youre ententis.
Primus. Lete us preson hem, til here myght schent is.
Secundus. Bettyr is to slen hem wyth dentis.
Tercius. Nay, best is to hang hem wyth peyn.
Episcopus. Nay, seris, nowth so youre better avyse,
Have in syth before what after may tide;
Yif we slewe hem it wolde cause the comownys to ryse,
And rathere the devyl sle hym than we schulde that abyde.
But be that senstere ded, Mary that fise,
We shal brenne here body and the aschis hide,