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qw[h]en quene lupa herd þis tale,
In hart scho had sa mekil bale,
þat to þai discipulis þe kynge
had granttit sa sone þar askine.
nocht-þane scho callyt þam hyr till,
and bad þame gange to syk a hill,
and tak twa of hyr oxyne þare,
and ȝoke þam in a wane but mare,
and lay þar master cors þar-In,
“and folow þai bese, till þai blyne
of þar awne wil, & þar ma ȝe
mak hym a place for euir to be.”
bot þat scho sad in-to dissate,
for scho had bulis wilde and tate,
þat scho nocht trewit mycht ȝakkit be
In carte, na wane, be ony degre;
and, gyf It hapnyt þat þai
var ȝokit, suld ryne away,
and brak þe wane in pecis smale,
and [cast] þe corse to ȝerde with-all
and sla þame þat ȝede þar by;
scho wes sa ful of fellouny.
bot aganis god is wisdum nane.
for-þi þe lele men, ore þa fane,
thinkand na ewil, vent to þe hill,
quhare a fel dragon com þam till,
blawand fel fyre one þam in hy,
and ruschit one þame fellounly;
bot þai þe croice before þam set,
and he bristit but langar lat.
and als to þa fel bugilis eke,
þai schawit þe corse, & þai vorth mek.
and þai discipulis but afray
brocht to þe cors, quhare at It lay,
þe oxine to þe wane mekly,
as þai had bene dantyt ky,
and with þe stane, rycht as It lay,
In þe wane lad [it] but effray.
and þe bulis, or þa fane,
drew þe sammyn cors & stane
In to þe myddis þe p[a]lace,
quhare quene lupe dwelland ves,
at fra þis merwale sene [scho] had,
scho was abaysit, and but abad
scho gafe It lowinge, & baptisym tuk þar.
and hyr palace, hecht & square,
to sancte Iames but abad
scho gaf, and It a kirk mad,
and dowit It with renttis fare,
quhare mony now makis repare.
for lele men of al kirsine led
sekis þat cors, as we red,
for heile of body and of sawle,
rycht as þai do petir and paule.
fore rome and galise, as I trew,
ar neste Ierusalem now
placis of maste deuocione
and of synnis remissione.
þat god vs grant of his gret grace,
and of repentance til haf space,
out of þis warld þat we ma twene
but schame, det, or dedly syne.