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Folio 22 Recto
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Lyke myghtty Sampson without playt or maill . •
In his stronge fight he strengiled þe leon . •
Thus was my son mankynde Champion .1 •
Thurgh his most magnanymyte . •
As kyng and Bisshop maade his oblacion •
Vpon þe high awter of þe Roode tre . •
My sonnys sufferaunce to Sathan was grete wrake . •
Whos grete mekenes did I nought suffice . •
Clerely figured whan þat Isaake . •
Was by his father offrid in sacrifise . •
Not disobeing in no maner wise . •
Bot like a lamb of lownes list not fle . •
Bot most myn herte þat tyme did a grife . •
Whan I first saw hym nailed to a tre .2 •
He myght be called Elisar the seconde . •
The Campion myghtiest and notable . •
That gaf tholifant his last mortall wounde . •
Macabeorum this story is no fable . •
And as hercules in his conquestis stable . •
Bare vp þe heueuys in his humanite . •
ffor whome my sorowes were maade moost lamentable . •
Whan I beheld hym þus nailed to a tre . •
Thus deth with deth was outraied and brought lowe . •
Mankyndys quarell maade victorious . •
ffor than leuyathan was bounde and ouerthrowe . •
Notes
  1. The mark on "n" at the end of the line here is otiose. Neither "leon" or "oblacion" have any indication of abbreviation, and so it seems unlikely that a work intended to rhyme with them would include the letter. ↩
  2. There is what appears to be an "e" to the left of the line here. When combined with the mark at line six of stanza eleven, it seems likely that this is either to indicate a stopping point or a shift in scribe. ↩

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