Vergil is, no doubt, as little like Lucan as he well could be.
For-thi cristene sholde be in commune riche, 9320 Noon coveitous for hymselve.
And there was Conscience conestable Cristene to save, And bisegede soothly With sevene grete geauntz {438} That with Antechrist helden Harde ayein Conscience.
Ac we cristene creatures That on the cros bileven, Arn ferme as in the feith, Goddes forbode ellis!
And seide it in salvacion Of Sarzens and othere, For cristene and uncristene Crist seide to prechours: Ite vos in vineam meam, etc.
And if men lyvede as mesure wolde, Sholde nevere moore be defaute Amonges cristene creatures, If Cristes wordes ben trewe.
The hevedes of holy chirche, And thei holy were, Crist calleth hem salt For cristene soules.
For that kynde dooth, unkynde for-dooth; As thise corsede theves Unkynde cristene men, For coveitise and envye, Sleeth a man for hise moebles With mouth or with handes.
Wherfore methinkethe, that Cristene men scholden ben more devoute, to serven oure Lord God, than ony other men of ony other secte.
And wytethe well, that in the kyngdoms of Georgie, of Abchaz and of the litile Armenye, ben gode Cristene men and devoute.
For with outen ony drede, ne were cursednesse and synne of Cristene men, thei scholden be lordes of alle the world.
There dwellen gode folke and resonable, and manye Cristene men amonges hem, that ben so riche, that thei wyte not what to done with hire godes.
But there is no man in the world so hardy, Cristene man ne other, but that he wolde ben a drad for to beholde it: and that it wolde semen him to dye for drede; so is it hidous for to beholde.
And anon the Cristene men kneleden to the grounde, and made hire preyeres to God to sokoure hem.
But the gode Cristene men, that ben stable in the feythe, entren welle withouten perile.
Laurentius cwaedh, "For hwilcum dhingum neadadh se deofol eow thaet ge cristene men to his biggengum dhreatniadh?
Mid tham is geswutelod thaet cristene men ne sceolon heora hiht besettan on woroldlice gestreon, ac on Gode anum.
Ealle cristene men sind his gastlican gebrodhra, and h['e] is se frumcenneda, on gife and on godcundnysse ancenned of dham Aelmihtigan Faeder.
Ealle we sind of Criste cristene geh['a]tene, ac we sceolon dhone arwurdhfullan naman mid aedhelum theawum geglengan, thaet we ne beon lease cristene.
There duellen many Cristene men, undir tribute of Sarrazines.
That cytee was wont to be righte strong; but it was twyes wonnen of the Cristene men: and therfore after that the Sarazines beten down the walles.
But whan God alle myghty wole, righte als the londes weren lost thorghe synne of Cristene men, so schulle thei ben wonnen azen be Cristen men thorghe help of God.
The clerkes han rounde crounes, and the lewed men han crownes alle square: and thei holden Cristene lawe, as don thei of Grece; of whom I have spoken of before.
And in that feld ben many tombes of Cristene men: for there ben manye pilgrymes graven.
And at the fote of this hille was somtyme a gode cytee of Cristene men, that men cleped Cayphas: For Cayphas first founded it: but it is now alle wasted.
And than I asked him, how he knew the state of Cristene men.
And the Soudan hath 4 wyfes, on Cristene and 3 Sarazines: of the whiche, on dwellethe at Jerusalem, and another at Damasce, and another at Ascalon.
There was somtyme a gret cytee and a gode, of Crystene men: but Sarazins han destroyed it a gret partye; and thei kepe that havene right welle, for drede of Cristene men.
In that contree duellen manye of the Jewes, payenge tribute, as Cristene men don.
Aftre Mango Chan, regned Coblya Chan, that was also a Cristene man: and he regnede 42 zere.
And to alle cristene men | beren pais and luue bitwen,’ GE 7.
Holy Lond, withe Helpe of Cristene Men, and he schalle do synge a Masse under that Drye Tree, and than the Tree shall wexen grene and bere both Fruyt and Leves.
And thorghe that Myracle manye Sarazines and Jewes schulle ben turned to Cristene Feithe.
Holy Land, withe Helpe of Cristene Men, and he halle do synge a Masse under that Drye Tree, and than the Tree shall wexen grene and bere both Fruyt and Leves.
And thorghe that Myracle manye Sarazines and Jewes schulle hev turned to Cristene Feithe.
So it befelle, that this emperour cam, with a Cristene knyght with him, into a chirche in Egypt: and it was Saterday in Wyttson woke.
And he beheld and listened the servyse fulle tentyfly: and he asked the Cristene knyght, what men of degree thei scholden ben, that the prelate had before him.
Cristene men ogen ben so fagen, so fueles arn quan he it sen dagen.
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