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lond was. And as she sawe the kynge go by the waye, she biganne of a hyghe voys to curse hym and all his lygnage also, and proudely she spake to hym, sayenge of hym al the vylonye that her cruel and proude herte couthe thynke. The kynge thenne beganne to loke vp, and sawe the couetyse and desguysynge of her and herd her proud and shamefull wordes, wherof he was merueylled and wrothe. And seyng she held not her fals and venymed tongue, but cursed and euer spake euylle, commaunded to his men that they shold go where as she was, and that they shold caste her before alle the peple the heed dounward fro the place where she was vnto the strete. And so they dyde. And thus by her cruell courage and pryde she shamefully and vylaynsly ended her lyf. And for the grete crueltees and euyles that she in her lyf had done & made to be done, commaunded kynge Josue that she shold haue [no] sepulcre, but that she shold be eten and deuoured of dogges, as she was. By suche wayes god taketh vengeaunce oftyme of them that haue no pyte of the power & indygent, and that loue not his chirche and his seruauntes, and that by couetyse make grete crueltees and many euylle dedes, and also them that brynge fals wytnes to disheryte other of his ryght, as dyd the fals quene gesabel, whiche susteyned her lord in his folye, wherfor euylle happed to her. Here ye maye take ensample to be pyteous, charytable toward the poure folke, and to loue holy chirche and the mynystres of hit, and also to kepe hym self fro gyuyage ony euylle counceyl to her lord, also to take no desguysed rayment, but only thestate of the good and worshipful wymmen of the lond,

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