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passus secundus de visione
vt supra.

Passus secundus de visione vt supra

L.2.1KD.2.1 ȜetL.2.1: The six-line ornamental Lombard capital is written in blue with red flourishings and two marginal leaf sprays. I courbed on my knees · and cryed hir of grace
                  
L.2.2KD.2.2 And seide mercy Madame · for Marie loue of heuene
L.2.3KD.2.3 That bar þat blisful barne · þat bouȝte vs on þe Rode
L.2.4KD.2.4 Kenne me bi somme crafte · to knowe þe fals
                  

¶ Loke vppon þi left half · and lo where he standeth

Bothe fals and fauel · and here feres manye

L.2.7KD.2.7 ¶ I loked on my left half · as þe lady me taughte
                  
L.2.8KD.2.8 And was war of a womman · wortheli yclothed
                  
L.2.9KD.2.9 Purfiled with pelure · þe fynest vpon erthe
L.2.10KD.2.10 Ycrounede with a corone · þe kyng hath non better
L.2.11KD.2.11 Fetislich hir fyngres · were fretted with golde wyre
L.2.12KD.2.12 And þere-on red rubyes · as red as any glede
                  
L.2.13KD.2.13 And diamantz of derrest pris · and double manere safferes
L.2.14KD.2.14 Orientales and ewages · enuenymes to destroye

L.2.15KD.2.15 ¶ Hire robe was ful riche · of red scarlet engreyned
                  
L.2.16KD.2.16 With ribanes of red golde · and of riche stones
L.2.17KD.2.17 Hire arraye me rauysshed · suche ricchesse saw I neuere
L.2.18KD.2.18 I had wondre what she was · and whas wyf she were

¶ What is þis womman · quod I so worthily atired

L.2.20KD.2.20 ¶ That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft
                  
L.2.21KD.2.21 And ylakked my lemman · þat lewte is hoten
                  
L.2.22KD.2.22 And bilowen hire to lordes · þat lawes han to kepe
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L.2.23KD.2.23 In þe popis paleys · she is pryue as my-self
                  
L.2.24KD.2.24 But sothenesse wolde nouȝt so · for she is a bastarde

¶ For fals was hire fader · þat hath a fykel tonge

And neuere sothe seide · sithen he come to erthe

L.2.27KD.2.27 ¶ And Mede is manered after hym · riȝte as kynde axeth
                  
L.2.28KD.2.27α Qualis pater talis filius · bonusL.2.28: WLM alone read bonus, although F has Iterum bonus. The remaining B witnesses read bona. arbor · bonum fructum facit
L.2.29KD.2.28 I auȝte ben herre þan she · I cam of a better

L.2.30KD.2.29 ¶ Mi fader þe grete god is · and grounde of alle graces
                  
L.2.31KD.2.30 O god with-oute gynnynge · & I his gode douȝter
                  
L.2.32KD.2.31 And hath ȝoue me mercy · to marye with my-self
                  
L.2.33KD.2.32 And what man be merciful · and lelly me loue
L.2.34KD.2.33 Shal be my lorde and I his leef · in þe heiȝe heuene

L.2.35KD.2.34 ¶ And what man taketh Mede · myne hed dar I legge
                  
L.2.36KD.2.35 That he shal lese for hir loue · a lappe of caritatis
L.2.37KD.2.36 how construeth dauid þe kynge · of men þat taketh Mede
L.2.38KD.2.37 And men of þis molde · þat meynteneth treuthe
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L.2.39KD.2.38 And how ȝe shal saue ȝow-self · þeL.2.39: The original scribe inserted the <e> of þe after initial copying, no doubt in response to the corrector's <+> in the right margin, which has since been partially erased. Sauter bereth witnesseL.2.39: A blurred red line under the final <e> of witnesse and a blue dot at the end of the line are offset from the initial on the facing leaf.
L.2.40KD.2.39 Domine quis habitabit in tabernaclotabernac[u]lo tuo &c

L.2.41KD.2.40 ¶ And now worth þis Mede ymaried · al to a mansed schrewe
                  
L.2.42KD.2.41 To one fals fikel tonge · a fendes biȝete
L.2.43KD.2.42 Fauel þorw his faire speche · hath þis folke enchaunted
                  
L.2.44KD.2.43 And al is lyeres ledyng · þat she is þus ywedded

L.2.45KD.2.44 ¶ To-morwe worth ymade · þe maydenes bruydale
                  
L.2.46KD.2.45 And þere miȝte þow wite · if þow wolt · which þei ben alle
L.2.47KD.2.46 That longeth to þat lordeship · þe lasse and þe more
L.2.48KD.2.47 Knowe hem þere if þow canst · and kepe þiL.2.48: LCR alone have þi. Most other B manuscripts have þow þi or wel þi. tonge
                  
L.2.49KD.2.48 And lakke hem nouȝt · but lat hem worth · til lewte be iustice
L.2.50KD.2.49 And haue powere to punyschen hem · þanne put forth þi resoun

¶ Now I bikenne þe criste quod she · and his clene moder

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And lat no conscience acombre þe · for coueitise of Mede

L.2.53KD.2.52 ¶ Thus left me þat lady · liggyng aslepe
                  
L.2.54KD.2.53 And how Mede was ymaried · in meteles me þouȝte
L.2.55KD.2.54 Þat alle þe riche retenauns · þat regneth with þe false
L.2.56KD.2.55 Were boden to þe bridale · on bothe two sydes
L.2.57KD.2.56 Of alle maner of men · þe mene and þe riche
L.2.58KD.2.57 To marie þis maydene · was many man assembled
L.2.59KD.2.58 As of kniȝtes and of clerkis · and other comune poeple
                  
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L.2.60KD.2.59 As sysours and sompnours · Shireues and here clerkes
L.2.61KD.2.60 Bedelles and Bailliues · and brokoures of chaffre
L.2.62KD.2.61 Forgoeres and vitaillers · and vokates of þe arches
L.2.63KD.2.62 I can nouȝt rekene þe route · þat ran aboute mede

L.2.64KD.2.63 ¶ Ac symonye and cyuile · and sisoures of courtes
                  
L.2.65KD.2.64 Were moste pryue with Mede · of any men me þouȝte
L.2.66KD.2.65 Ac fauel was þe first · þat fette hire out of boure
L.2.67KD.2.66 And as a brokour brouȝte hir to be with fals enioigned
L.2.68KD.2.67 Whan symonye and cyuile · seiȝ here beireL.2.68: LC alone have beire, the genitive form of bo, "both"; most other B manuscripts have synonymous boþer. wille
                  
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L.2.69KD.2.68 L.2.69: The corrector has marked this line with a <+> in the left margin. Thei assented for siluer · to seiL.2.69: L's cancellation of <i> is odd. Nearly all other B manuscripts have seye. as bothe wolde
                  
Simoni and siuilyeL.2.70: A s. xvi hand has inserted in the left margin Simoni and siuilye.
L.2.70KD.2.69 Thanne lepe lyer forth · and seide lo here a chartre
L.2.71KD.2.70 That gyle with his gret othes · gaf hem togidere
L.2.72KD.2.71 And preide cyuile to se · and symonye to rede it
L.2.73KD.2.72 Thanne symonye and cyuile · stonden forth bothe
L.2.74KD.2.73 And vnfoldeth þe feffement · þat fals hath ymaked
L.2.75KD.2.74 And þus bigynneth þes gomes · to greden ful heiȝ
L.2.76KD.2.74α Sciant presentes & futuri &c ·

L.2.77KD.2.75 ¶ Witeth and witnesseth · þat wonieth vpon þis ertheL.2.77: Each of the first three lines of the group is clearly marked with a punctus in brown ink in the left margin. Below and extending
                           through L.2.94 in the left margin is a bracket in very light black ink.
L.2.78KD.2.76 Þat Mede is ymaried · more for here goodis
L.2.79KD.2.77 Þan for ani vertue or fairenesse · or any free kyndeL.2.79-92: A non-continuous bracket in pale ink runs from L.2.79-92.
L.2.80KD.2.78 Falsenesse is faine of hire · for he wote hire riche
L.2.81KD.2.79 And fauel with his fikel speche · feffeth bi þis chartre
L.2.82KD.2.80 To be prynces in pryde · and pouerte to dispise
L.2.83KD.2.81 To bakbite · and to bosten · and bere fals witnesse
L.2.84KD.2.82 To scorne and to scolde · and sclaundere to make
L.2.85KD.2.83 Vnboxome and bolde · to breke þe ten hestes

L.2.86KD.2.84 ¶ And þe Erldome of enuye · and wratthe togideres
                  
L.2.87KD.2.85 With þe chastelet of chest · and chateryng oute of resoun
L.2.88KD.2.86 Þe counte of coueitise · and alle þe costes aboute
L.2.89KD.2.87 That is vsure and auarice · alle I hem graunte
L.2.90KD.2.88 In bargaines and in brokages · with al þe borgtheborg[h]e of theft
                  

¶ And al þe lordeship of lecherye · in lenthe and in brede

L.2.92KD.2.90

As in werkes and in wordes · and waitynges with eies

And in wedes and in wisshynges · and with ydel thouȝtes

There as wille ne wolde · and wermanshipwer[k]manship faillethL.2.94: The word ne was inserted after original copying by the text scribe; only LCY among B witnesses have the negative. The word and has been subpuncted at the beginning of the b-verse. A small <+> in the left margin may mark either of these for correction, or may refer to the scribe's wermanship for werkmanship.

L.2.95KD.2.93 ¶ Glotonye he gaf hem eke · and grete othes togydere
                  
L.2.96KD.2.94 And alday to drynke · at dyuerse tauernes
L.2.97KD.2.95 And there to iangle and to iape · and iugge here euene-cristene
                  
L.2.98KD.2.96 And in fastyngdayes to frete · ar ful tyme were
nota
L.2.99KD.2.97 And þanne to sitten and soupen · til slepe hem assaille
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L.2.100KD.2.98 And bredun as burgh-swyn · and bedden hem esily
                  
L.2.101KD.2.99 Tyl sleuth and slepe · slyken his sides
L.2.102KD.2.100 And þanne wanhope to awake hym so · with no wille to amende
L.2.103KD.2.101 For he leueth be lost · þis is here last ende

L.2.104KD.2.102 ¶ And þei to haue and to holde · and here ieyres after
                  
L.2.105KD.2.103 A dwellyng with þe deuel · and dampned be for eure
L.2.106KD.2.104 Wiþ al þe purtenauncesL.2.106: LRF alone read purtenaunces. Other B witnesses vary between appurtinaunces and purtynaunce. of purgatorie · in-to þe pyne of helle
                  
L.2.107KD.2.105 Ȝeldyng for þis þinge · at one ȝeres ende
L.2.108KD.2.106 Here soules to sathan · to suffre with hym peynes
L.2.109KD.2.107 And with him to wonye with wo · whil god is in heuene

L.2.110KD.2.108 ¶ In witnesse of which þing · wronge was þe first
                  
L.2.111KD.2.109 And Pieres þe pardonereL.2.111: The <a> and the <o> have been overwritten in a later ink. · of paulynes doctrine
                  
L.2.112KD.2.110 Bette þe bedel · of Bokyngham-shire
                  
L.2.113KD.2.111 Rainalde þe Reue · of Rotland sokene
L.2.114KD.2.112 Munde þe Mellere · and many moo other
L.2.115KD.2.113 In þe date of þe deuel þis dede I assele
L.2.116KD.2.114 Bi siȝte of sire symonye · and cyuyles leue

Theologie to mede

civile

¶ Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herdeL.2.117: A marginal hand, not represented elsewhere in the manuscript, wrote in the right margin Theologie to mede, then lined through mede and added civile. Three heavy black points, arranged vertically, also appear in the right margin.

And seide to cyuile · now sorwe mot þow haue

Such wendyngeswe[d]dyngesL.2.119: A <+> in the left margin marks the text for correction. The scribe, however, failed to correct wendynges to weddynges, the reading of most B witnesses. LC alone have such wendynges. to worche to wratthe with treuthe

L.2.120KD.2.118

And ar þis weddyng be wrouȝte · wo þe bityde

L.2.121KD.2.119 ¶ For Mede is moylere · of amendes engendrethL.2.121: LCYR alone have the form engendreth; all other B manuscripts have the past participle. The form spelled engendrit in some A manuscripts perhaps accounts for the error.
L.2.122KD.2.120 And god graunteth to gyf · Mede to treuthe
L.2.123KD.2.121 And þow hast gyuen hire to a gyloure · now god gyf þe sorwe
L.2.124KD.2.122 Thi tixt telleth þe nouȝt so · treuthe wote þe sothe
                  
L.2.125KD.2.123 For dignus est operarius · his hyre to haue
                  
L.2.126KD.2.124 And þow hast fest hire to fals · fy on þi lawe
L.2.127KD.2.125 For al by lesynges þow lyuest · and lecherouse werkes
L.2.128KD.2.126 Symonye and þi-self · schenden holicherche
                  
L.2.129KD.2.127 Þe notaries and ȝee · noyeth þe peple
L.2.130KD.2.128 Ȝe shul abiggen it bothe · bi god þat me made
L.2.131KD.2.129 Wel ȝe witen wernardes · but if ȝowre witte faille
L.2.132KD.2.130 That fals is faithlees · and fikel in his werkes
L.2.133KD.2.131 And was a bastarde ybore · of belsabubbes kynne
L.2.134KD.2.132 And Mede is moylere · a mayden of gode
L.2.135KD.2.133 And myȝte kisse þe kynge · for cosyn an she wolde

L.2.136KD.2.134 ¶ For-þi worcheth bi wisdome · and bi witt also
                  
L.2.137KD.2.135 And ledeth hire to londoun · þere lawe is yshewed
                  
L.2.138KD.2.136 If any lawe wil loke · þei ligge togederes
L.2.139KD.2.137 And þouȝ Iustices iugge hir · to be ioigned with fals
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L.2.140KD.2.138 Ȝet beth war of weddyng · for witty is truthe ·L.2.140: This line is supplied in an early fifteenth-century hand in the blank space above the top line.
L.2.141KD.2.139 And conscience is of his conseille · and knoweth ȝow vchone
                  
L.2.142KD.2.140 And if he fynde ȝow in defaute · and with þe fals holde
L.2.143KD.2.141 It shal bisitte ȝowre soules · ful soure atte laste

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¶ Here-to assenteth cyuile · ac symonye nie wolde

Tyl he had siluer for his seruise · and also þe notaries

L.2.146KD.2.144 ¶ Thanne fette fauel forth · floreynes ynowe
                  
L.2.147KD.2.145 And bad gyle to gyue · golde al aboute
L.2.148KD.2.146 And namelich to þe notaries · þat hem none ne faille
L.2.149KD.2.147 And feffe falsewitnesfalse witnes · with floreines ynowe
                  
L.2.150KD.2.148 For heL.2.150: Most B manuscripts have a form of þei. may mede amaistrye · and maken at my wille
                  

L.2.151KD.2.149 ¶ Tho þis golde was gyue · grete was þe þonkynge
                  
L.2.152KD.2.150 To fals and to fauel · for her faire ȝiftes
L.2.153KD.2.151 And comen to conforte fram care þe fals
L.2.154KD.2.152 And seiden certis sire · cesse shal we neuere
L.2.155KD.2.153 Til Mede be þi wedded wyf · þorw wittis of vs alle
L.2.156KD.2.154 For we haue Mede amaistried · with owre mery speche
L.2.157KD.2.155 That she graunteth to gon with a gode wille
L.2.158KD.2.156 To Londoun to loke · ȝif þat þe lawe wolde
                  
L.2.159KD.2.157 Iugge ȝow ioyntly · in ioye for euere

L.2.160KD.2.158 ¶ Thanne was falsenesse fayne · and fauel as blithe
                  
L.2.161KD.2.159 And leten sompne alle segges · in schires aboute
L.2.162KD.2.160 And bad hem alle be bown · beggeres and othere
L.2.163KD.2.161 To wenden wyth hem to westmynstre · to witnesse þis dede
                  

L.2.164KD.2.162 ¶ Ac þanne cared þei for caplus · to kairenL.2.164: LMR alone read kairen; most other B manuscripts have carien. hem þider
                  
L.2.165KD.2.163 And fauel fette forth þanne · folus ynowe
L.2.166KD.2.164 And sette Mede vpon a schyreue · shodde al newe
L.2.167KD.2.165 And fals sat on a sisoure · þat softlich trotted
                  
L.2.168KD.2.166 And fauel on a flatereL.2.168: Only LF have flatere, from OF flateor, flatour. Other B manuscripts read flaterere. · fetislich atired
                  

¶ Tho haued notaries none · annoyed þei were

For symonye and cyuile · shulde on hire fete gange

L.2.171KD.2.169 ¶ Ac þanne swore symonye · and cyuile bothe
                  
L.2.172KD.2.170 That sompnoures shulde be sadled and serue hem vchone
                  
L.2.173KD.2.171 And lat apparaille þis prouisoures · in palfreis wyse
L.2.174KD.2.172 Sire symonye hym-seluen · shal sitte vpon here bakkes

nota

¶ Denes and suddenes · drawe ȝow togideresL.2.175: A scribe has put the symbol for a musical note to indicate nota both next to this line and again in the bottom left margin.

L.2.176KD.2.174

Erchdekenes and officiales · and alle ȝowre Regystreres

Lat sadel hem with siluer · owre synne to suffre

As auoutrie and deuoses ·

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As auoutrie and deuoses · and derne vsurye

To bere bischopes aboute · abrode in visytynge

L.2.180KD.2.178 ¶ Paulynes pryues · for pleyntes in þe consistorie
                  
L.2.181KD.2.179 Shul serue my-self · þat cyuile is nempned
                  
L.2.182KD.2.180 And cartesadel þe comissarie · owre carte shal he lede
L.2.183KD.2.181 And fecchen vs vytailles · at fornicatores

L.2.184KD.2.182 ¶ And maketh of lyer a longe carte · to lede alle þese othere
                  
L.2.185KD.2.183 As Freres and faitours · þat on here fete rennen
L.2.186KD.2.184 And thus fals and fauel · fareth forth togideres
L.2.187KD.2.185 And Mede in þe myddes · and alle þise men after

L.2.188KD.2.186 ¶ I haue no tome to telle þe taille þat hem folweth
                  
L.2.189KD.2.187 Of many maner man · þat on þis molde libbeth
L.2.190KD.2.188 Ac gyle was forgoer · and gyed hem alle

L.2.191KD.2.189 ¶ Sothenesse seiȝ hym wel · and seide but a litel
                  
L.2.192KD.2.190 And priked his palfrey · and passed hem alle
L.2.193KD.2.191 And come to þe kynges courte · and conscience it tolde
L.2.194KD.2.192 And conscience to þe kynge · carped it after

L.2.195KD.2.193 ¶ Now by cryst quod þe kynge · and I cacche myȝte
                  
L.2.196KD.2.194 Fals or fauel · or any of his feres
L.2.197KD.2.195 I wolde be wroke of þo wrecches · þat worcheth so ille
L.2.198KD.2.196 And don hem hange by þe hals · and alle þat hem meynteneth
L.2.199KD.2.197 Shal neure man of molde · meynprise þe leste
L.2.200KD.2.198 But riȝte as þe lawe wil loke · late falle on hem alle

L.2.201KD.2.199 ¶ And comanded a constable · þat come atte furst
                  
L.2.202KD.2.200 To attache þo tyrauntz · for eny thynge I hote
L.2.203KD.2.201 And fettereth fast falsenesse · for enykynnes ȝiftes
L.2.204KD.2.202 And gurdeth of gyles hed · and lat hym go no furthere
L.2.205KD.2.206 And ȝif ȝe lacche lyer · late hym nouȝt ascapen
L.2.206KD.2.207 Er he be put on þe pilorye · for eny preyere · I hote
L.2.207KD.2.203 And bryngeth Mede to me · maugre hem alle

L.2.208KD.2.208 ¶ Drede atte dore stode · and þe dome herde
                  
L.2.209KD.2.209 And how þe kynge comaunded · constables and seriantz
                  
L.2.210KD.2.210 Falsenesse and his felawschip · to fettren an to bynden
L.2.211KD.2.211 Þanne drede went wiȝtliche · and warned þe fals
L.2.212KD.2.212 And bad hym flee for fere · and his felawes alle

notaL.2.213: The symbol for a musical note to represent nota appears in the left margin. Another is written at the far right margin.

nota

¶ Falsenesse for fere þanne · fleiȝ to þe freres

And gyle doþ hym to go · agast for to dye

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Ac marchantz mette with hym · and made hym abide

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And bishetten hym in here shope · to shewen here ware

And apparailled hym as a prentice · þe poeple to serue

L.2.218KD.2.218 ¶ Liȝtlich lyer · lepe awey þanne
                  
L.2.219KD.2.219 Lorkynge thorw lanes · to-lugged of manye
                  
L.2.220KD.2.220 He was nawhere welcome · for his manye tales
L.2.221KD.2.221 Ouer al yhowted · and yhote trusse
L.2.222KD.2.222 Tyl pardoneres haued pite · and pulled hym in-to house
                  
L.2.223KD.2.223 They wesshen hym and wyped hym · and wonden hym in cloutes
L.2.224KD.2.224 And sente hym with seles · on sondayes to cherches
L.2.225KD.2.225 And gaf pardoun for pens · poundmel aboute
                  

L.2.226KD.2.226 ¶ Thanne loured leches · and lettres þei sent
                  
L.2.227KD.2.227 Þat he sholde wonye with hem · wateres to loke
L.2.228KD.2.228 Spiceres spoke with hym · to spien here ware
L.2.229KD.2.229 For he couth of here craft · and knewe many gommes
                  

¶Ac mynstallesmynst[r]allesL.2.230: A <+> appears in the left margin, although no correction was made to erroneous mynstalles. The same error occurs at L.3.134, where it was also marked for correction and the correction not made. and messageres · mette with hym ones

And helden hym an halfȝere · and elleuene dayes

L.2.232KD.2.232 ¶ Freres with faire speche · fetten hym þennes
                  
L.2.233KD.2.233 And for knowyng of comeres · coped hym as a frere
L.2.234KD.2.234 Ac he hath leue to lepe out · as oft as hym liketh
L.2.235KD.2.235 And is welcome whan he wil · and woneth wyth hem oft

L.2.236KD.2.236 ¶ Alle fledden for fere · and flowen in-to hernes
                  
L.2.237KD.2.237 Saue Mede þe Mayde · na mo durst abide
L.2.238KD.2.238 Ac trewli to telle · she trembled for drede
L.2.239KD.2.239 And ek wept and wronge · whan she was attached