"A womman, as I fynde,

Was gilty of that dede.

Ac Crist of his curteisie

Thorugh clergie hir saved;

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[And thorugh caractes that Crist wroot,]

The Jewes knewe hemselve

Giltier as a-fore God,

And gretter in synne,

Than the womman that there was,