6997   And gret wodes everichon,
6998   I lete hem to the baptist Iohn.
6999   I quethe hym quyte, and hym relese
7000   Of egipt all the wildirnesse;
7001   To ferre were alle my mansiouns
7002   ffro citees and goode tounes.
7003   My paleis and myn hous make I
7004   There men may renne ynne openly,
7005   And sey that I the world forsake.
7006   But al amydde I bilde and mak
7007   My hous, and swimme and pley therynne
7008   Bet than a fish doth with his fynne.
7009   'Off antecristes men am I,
7010   Of whiche that crist seith openly,
7011   They have abit of hoolynesse,
7012   And lyven in such wikkednesse.
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7110   To copy, if hym talent toke.
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7111   There myght he se, by gret tresoun,
7112   fflul many fals comparisoun:
7113   "As moche as, thurgh his gret myght,
7114   Be it of hete, or of lyght,
7115   The same sourmounteth the mone,
7116   That troublere is, and chaugith soone,