¶ And now comyth to my remembrunce.
¶ I am auysed I saw Sodechy:
¶ And Amos also with sober countenaunce.
¶ Stondyng wyth her faces towarde Sophony.
¶ Neemy & Esdras bare hem companye.
¶ The holy man Iob as an Impotente.
¶ Then folowed in pycture wyth Thoby pacyent
¶ Thyse wyth many mo on that one syde.
¶ Of that grene herber portrayed were.
¶ A sayd Morpleus a lytyll tyme abyde.
¶ Turn thy face where thy backe was ere.
¶ And beholde well what thou seeste there.
¶ Than I me turned as he me badde.
¶ With herte stedfaste & countenaunce sadde.
¶ Where I sawe Peter wyth his keyes stonde.
¶ Poule wyth a swerde and Iames also.
¶ Wyth a scalop & Thomas holdyng in his honde
¶ A spere and Phylyp aproched hym to:
¶ Iames the lesse nexte hem in pycture too.
¶ Stode wyth Bartylmew whych was all flayn
¶ Symon & Thadee shewed how they were slayn
¶ Mathy and Barnabe drawy{n}g lottys stode
¶ Nexte whome was Marke a Lyon hym by.
¶ Hys boke holdyng & Mathew in his mode.
¶ Resembled an aungell wyth wyngys gl{or}yously. Original has
¶ Luke had a calfe to holde his boke on hye. gl{or}youly
¶ And Iohan wyth a cuppe & palme in his honde. instead of
¶ An Egle bare his book thus saw I hem stonde gl{or}yously
¶ Gregory and Ierome Austyn and Ambrose.
¶ Wyth pyllyo{n}s on ther hedes stode lyke doctors
¶ Bernard wyth Amselme and as I suppose. Original has
¶ Thomas of alquyne and Domynyk co{n}fessours. suppese
¶ Benet and Hew relygyous gouernours. instead of
¶ Martyn & Iohan with bysshops tweyne. suppose
¶ Were there also and Crysostom certayne.
¶ Behynd all thyse was worshypfull Bede.
¶ All behynde and next hym stood Orygene.
¶ Hydynge his face as he of his dede.
¶ Had hem ashamed ye wote what I mene. Original has
¶ For of errour he was not al clene. bem instead
¶ And on that syde stode laste of alle. of hem
¶ The noble p{ro}phetyssa Sybell men her call.
¶ Let me remembre now I you pray
¶ My barayn is so thynne I deme in my herte
¶ Some of the felyshyp that I there say.
¶ In all this whyle to haue ouersterte.
¶ A benedicite none coude I aduerte.
¶ To thy{n}ke on Andrew the apostle {with} his crosse.
¶ Whome to forgete were a grete losse.
¶ Many one were peynted on that wall.
¶ Whoos names come not to my remembrau{n}ce.
¶ But thyse I marked in especyall.
¶ And moo coude I tell in countenaunce.
¶ Of tyme but forth to shewe you the substaunce.
¶ Of this mater in the myndys of that arbere.
¶ Sat Doctryne coloured as ony crystall clere.
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