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Folio 145 Recto
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I meane it thus / that word and werke were on •
it is no wender / for wymen so ben echon •
A daune Iohan est •
yvray •
hir holynesse / ffraunce did enlumyne •
and crystes fayth / gretly magnefye •
loo what grace / doth in wymen shyne •
was assuraunce / no man may denye •
to saye pleyne truthe / nys no flaterye •
but stabulnesse / in wymen for to fynde •
demeth youre sellfe / wher it kometh them of kynde •
ffor thorougħ mekenesse / yf it be aduerted •
of saynte clote / and thorough hir hygh prudence •
kynge cloudoue / was to oure feyth conuerted •
in her ther was / so entier diligence •
ffullye deuoyde / of slouth and necligence •
no stynt noughte / till that hir lord hath take •
the fayth of cryst / and his errour forsake •
this made the kynge / that crystes feyth toke1 •
ffor he was bothe / manly and righte wys •
the thre crepandes / this noble kynge for soke •
and in his sheld / he bare thre floure delys •
sent from heuen / a tresore of great prys •
after at raynes / the story telleth thus •
baptysed lowly of saint remigius2 •
thampolle of golde / a coluer broughte adoune •
with whych he was / this holy kynge ennoynte •
gret pres ther was / stondinge envyronge •
ffor to be hold the kynge / from poynte to poynt •
ffor wher as he / stod in grete desioynt •
first apaynyme / by baptyme anon righte •
was so conuerted / and be h[k]anee3 cristes knight •
At reygnes ther / that holy vnccyony4 •
conserued it for a remembraunce •
and of custome / by reuolucyon •
of god prouyded / with due obseruaunce •
tannoynte of custome / kynges which in ffraunce •
Iustly succed / the story doth vs lere •
of whych / sixt henry / þat now sitteth here •
Notes
  1. Trinity R.3.20 puts this and "soke," below, in the present rather than past tense. ↩
  2. The tittle is missing from the initial "i" glyph in this word, but the scribal practice is inconsistent throughout so it still reads "mi" rather than "nn." ↩
  3. It appears that the scribe originally took the initial "k" of this word to be an "h," then corrected themselves by writing over the existing glyph. ↩
  4. The terminal "y" here breaks the rhyme scheme of the stanza. This terminal y glyph also appears in the first stanza of the following page as well (breaking the rhyme scheme there as well) as in , although there the rhyme scheme is kept. This suggests a terminal glyph in the exemplar that the scribe is consistently misinterpreting. ↩

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