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Apone a tyme it sa befell:
of discipulis, with hym can dwell,
he send twa, at worthy ware,
twenty Iornais fer and mare,
to prech in a certane stede.

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bot in þe way þe tane wes dede;
And þe toþer agane alsone
To petir com, and tald but howne
how his falow be þe way
ves dede, and þare vndalline lay.
þan petir his staff has hym taucht,
and bad hym with all his mawcht
lay it on his falow sowne.
þan, as he sad hym, he has downe;
And he þat fourty dais lay dede,
ves sa resuscit in þat stede.