This
that
is
writen
in
this
lytyl
boke
ought
the
prest●es
to
lerne
and
teche
to
theyr
parysshens
:
And
also
it
is
necessary
for
symple
prestes
that
vnderstonde
not
the
scriptures
.
And
it
is
made
for
symple
peple
and
put
in
to
englissh
whiche
treates
was
made
by
grete
counseyl
and
deliberacion
.
&
is
approuued
.
as
it
is
sayd
in
the
table
.
and
by
cause
that
for
to
here
examples
.
styreth
and
moueth
the
peple
that
ben
symple
.
more
to
deuocion
.
than
that
grete
auctorite
of
scyence
/
as
it
appereth
by
the
right
renerend
fader
&
doctour
Bede
preste
/
whiche
sayth
in
th
history
of
england
that
a
bysshop
of
Scotland
a
subtyl
and
a
grete
clerk
was
sent
by
the
clerks
of
Scotland
in
to
england
for
to
preche
the
word
of
god
.
but
by
cause
he
vsed
in
hys
sermons
subtyll
auctorytees
suche
as
symple
peple
hadde
ne
toke
therin
no
sauour
.
he
retourned
wythout
doyng
of
ony
grete
good
ne
proffyt
.
wherfore
they
sente
another
of
lasse
scye●●●
the
whiche
was
more
playn
and
vsed
comynly
in
hys
sermons
examples
.
and
parables
by
whyche
he
prouffyted
moche
more
vnto
the
erudicion
of
the
symple
peple
.
than
dyd
that
other
.
Then
maystre
Jaques
de
vytry
an
holy
man
and
clerke
whyche
was
a
Cardynal
in
prechyng
comynly
thrugh
the
wyame
of
fraunce
.
vsyd
in
hys
sermons
examples
the
whyche
moued
in
suche
wyse
alle
the
wyame
of
fraunce
that
it
is
not
in
mynde
of
ony
man
that
to
fore
hym
was
ne
syth
that
styred
&
moeued
the
peple
to
deuocion
as
he
dyde
/
For
as
it
is
redde
accordyng
to
suche
examples
.
that
seint
Austyn
doctour
of
the
chirche
was
more
moeued
to
couuerte
hym self
to
the
crysten
feyth
.
by
the
xamples
that
were
recounted
to
hym
:
by
symplicien
.
vyctoryn
:
and
by
the
xamples
of
the
merueyllouse
lyf
and
conuersacion
of
seynt
Anthonye
t
hermyte
/
than
he
was
by
the
prayers
&
be
wayllynges
of
hys
moder
.
ne
by
the
sermons
of
seynt
Ambrose
ne
also
than
he
was
for
the
grete
maladyes
that
he
suffred
as
hys
legende
maketh
mencion
we
.
rede
in
the
holy
scrypture
that
our
lord
Jhesu
Cryst
preched
to
his
discyples
oftymes
by
examples
and
parables
.
wherfore
we
haue
entencion
to
saye
and
wryte
somme
good
examples
in
this
matere
for
the
better
to
styre
and
moeue
the
symple
peple
to
deuocion
.
lyke
as
dyde
they
aboue
sayd
:
And
by
cause
this
boke
shold
be
the
better
redde
herd
and
vnderstanden
.
hit
is
made
short
to
be
the
more
clerely
vndrestond
to
th
ende
that
ther
may
be
found
therin
helthe
for
our
soules
.
This
present
boke
in
f●●nshe
is
of
right
gr●te
prouffyt
and
edificacion
and
is
examined
&
aproued
at
paris
by
dyuerse
maystres
in
diuinite
/
and
the
ryght
renerent
fader
in
god
Guy
de
roye
by
the
myseracion
dyuine
Archebysshop
of
Sence
hath
doon
it
to
be
w●●●on
for
the
helthe
of
his
soule
.
and
of
the
soules
of
alle
hys
peple
.
And
in
specyal
it
is
made
for
symple
laye
men
for
whome
it
is
specyally
ordeyned
:
And
the
sayd
reuerend
fader
comandeth
by
grete
end
seruent
deuocyon
that
in
euery
parysshe
of
the
cyte
and
dyocyse
of
sence
thys
wokeh
had
.
And
that
the
curates
and
chappelayns
of
the
sayd
paryss●es
rede
to
the
peple
two
or
iij
chapytres
yf
ony
wyll
here
it
:
And
to
th
ende
that
the
curates
and
chappelayns
ben
the
more
deuoute
to
●●de
:
and
the
peple
forsayd
to
here
.
the
sayd
reuerend
fader
.
to
helthe
of
theyr
soules
and
in
hop
that
they
praye
god
for
hym
hath
gyuen
and
graunted
to
alle
them
that
shal
be
in
thestate
of
grace
that
shal
rede
this
boke
to
other
xx
dayes
of
pardon
.
&
also
to
alle
that
shal
here
it
rede
:
and
by
them self
red
it
.
&
that
praye
for
that
reuerend
fader
.
●
.
dayes
for
eche
tyme
perpetuelly
/
And
yf
it
happen
that
ony
make
doubte
of
ony
thyn●
conteyned
in
this
boke
and
vndrestande
it
not
wel
.
by
cause
it
hath
be
shortly
made
&
grossely
for
symple
peple
.
by
the
sayd
reuerend
fader
or
his
successours
.
or
by
theyr
counceyllours
shal
be
gyuen
vndrestandyng
and
declaracion
suffisaunt
to
them
that
wolde
haue
it
And
it
is
compiled
of
suche
thynges
as
folowen
herafter
in
this
table
-
Of
the
xij
artycles
of
the
feyth
the
first
chapitre
-
Of
sorceryes
and
deuynacyons
Capitulo
ij
-
Of
louyng
god
&
of
chante
Capitulo
iij
-
For
confort
in
alle
tribulacyons
Capitulo
iiij
-
Of
dyuerse
and
obscure
Jugemens
of
god
Capitulo
.
v
-
Of
the
passion
of
our
lord
Capitulo
vj
-
Of
the
vertu
of
the
holy
crosse
Capitulo
vij
-
Of
thre
pacyences
in
trybnlacion
Capitulo
viij
-
Of
louyng
his
neyghbour
Capitulo
ix
-
Of
louyng
his
enemyes
Capitulo
x
-
Of
the
werkes
of
mercy
corporall
Capitulo
xj
-
How
almesse
ought
to
be
don
&
wherof
Capitulo
xij
-
Of
the
●
comandementes
of
the
lawe
capitulo
xiij
-
Of
the
goodes
that
god
promysed
to
the
children
of
israel
Capitulo
xiiij
-
Of
the
soule
Capitulo
xv
-
Of
the
v
werks
of
nature
Capitulo
xvj
-
Of
the
harmes
that
synnes
doon
to
vs
Capitulo
:
xvij
-
Of
the
synne
of
pryde
Capitulo
xviij
-
Of
veniall
synne
Capitulo
xix
-
Of
dedely
synnes
Capitulo
xx
-
Of
pryde
Capitulo
xxj
-
Of
Sentences
of
excomynycacion
Capitulo
xxij
-
Of
the
braunches
of
pryde
Capitulo
xxiij
-
Of
the
yefte
of
drede
ayenst
pryde
Capitulo
xxiiij
-
Of
humilyte
Capitulo
xxv
-
Of
shame
Capitulo
xxvj
-
Of
dyscrecyon
Capitulo
xxvij
-
Of
the
synne
of
enuye
Capitulo
.
xxviij
-
Of
the
synnes
ayenst
t
holy
ghoost
Capitulo
xxix
-
Of
the
yefte
of
pyte
ayenst
enuye
Capitulo
xxx
-
Of
the
synne
of
yre
Capitulo
xxxj
-
Of
the
yefte
of
scyence
ayenst
yre
Capitulo
xxxij
-
Of
the
synne
of
slouthe
Capitulo
xxxi●
-
Of
owyson
or
prayer
/
Capitulo
xxxiiij
-
Of
them
that
talke
in
the
chyrche
whan
they
ought
to
praye
.
Capitulo
xxxv
-
Of
dysposyng
euyl
hys
tyme
.
Capitulo
xxxvj
-
Of
makyng
a
wwes
.
Capitulo
xxxvij
-
Of
them
that
haue
science
.
&
vsed
euyll
.
Capitulo
xxxviij
-
Of
the
pater
noster
●aud
who
made
it
Capitulo
xxxix
-
Of
the.
vij
/
peticions
of
the
pater
noster
.
Capitulo
.
xl
-
Of
the
aue
ma●a
Capitulo
xlj
-
Of
the
lyf
of
Theophile
.
Capitulo
.
xlij
-
How
angellis
and
seyntes
haue
by
our
lady
ioye
Capi.
xliij
-
Of
the
holy
name
of
ihesu
cryst
:
Capitulo
xliiij
-
Of
the
yefte
of
strengthe
ayenst
slouthe
Capitulo
xlv
-
Of
the
synne
of
Auaryce
Capitulo
xlvj
-
Of
Sacrylege
/
Capitulo
.
xlvij
-
Of
Symonye
Capitulo
xlviij
-
Of
dy●●es
Capitulo
xlix
-
Of
euyll
plays
of
dyse
and
tables
Capitulo
l
-
Of
the
yefte
of
counseyll
ayenst
auaryce
.
Capitulo●
lj
-
Of
the
synne
of
gloutonnye
.
Capitulo
lij
-
Of
fastynges
and
of
them
that
ought
to
fast
Capitulo
liij
-
Of
the
yefte
of
sapience
&
sobrenes
ayenst
glotonnye
Ca
liiij
-
Of
the
synne
of
lecherye
/
Capitulo
lv
-
Of
the
yefte
of
vnderstondyng
ayenst
lecherye
.
Capitulo
.
lvj
-
Of
the
goodes
that
ben
doon
in
dedely
synne
Capitulo
lvij
-
Of
the.
vij
.
sacrementis
of
the
holy
chyrche
.
Capitulo
.
lviij
-
Of
confirmacyon
Capitulo
lix
-
Of
the
sacrament
of
the
Auter
Capitulo
lx
-
Of
the
goodes
that
a
man
hath
for
to
here
masse
Capit
lxj
-
Of
the
scyence
and
good
example
of
prestes
.
Capitulo
lxiij
-
Of
necligences
and
remedyes
of
the
masse
:
Capitulo
.
lxiiij
-
Of
the
houselyng
gladly
and
ofte
capitulo
.
lxix
-
Of
the
dygnite
of
prestes
Capitulo
lxij
-
The
godes
that
one
hath
to
receyue
the
sacrament
worthily
lxvi
-
The
harmes
that
come
to
the
contrare
.
Capitulo
:
lxvij
-
Of
the
laste
vnction
:
Capitulo
.
lxviij
-
Of
the
Ordres
Capitulo
lxix
-
Of
the
sacrement
of
maryage
/
Capitulo
lxx
-
whyche
mariages
ben
of
no
valewe
Capitulo
lxxj
-
Of
the
state
of
wedowhed
Capitulo
lxxij
-
Of
contynence
and
chaslyte
Capitulo
lxxiij
-
Of
the
state
of
virginite
Capitulo
lxxiiij
-
Of
them
that
ben
in
relygyon
Capitulo
lxxv
-
Of
obeyssance
in
religyon
Capitulo
lxxvj
-
To
whome
one
onght
to
be
confessyd
.
Capitulo
lxxvij
.
-
Of
the
reyne
of
the
preste
that
sheweth
the
conf●ssion
Ca
lxxvjij
-
Of
the
sacrement
of
penaunce
Capitulo
lxxix
-
Of
confessyon
and
of
hys
vertues
Capitulo
lxxx
-
Of
the
scyence
longyng
to
prestes
that
confission
&
how
they
ought
to
demaunde
the
synnar
Capitulo
lxxxj
-
How
one
ought
to
confisse
hym
Capitulo
lxxxij
-
How
one
ought
to
make
amendes
to
other
.
and
to
make
satysfaction
Capitulo
lxxxiij
-
Of
the
fyre
of
purgatorye
Capitulo
.
lxxxiiij
-
Of
the
peynes
of
alle
▪
Capitulo
.
lxxxv
-
How
the
dampned
soules
complaine
in
helle
Capi.
lxxxvj
-
wherfore
god
made
not
man
that
heshold
neuer
sinner
lxxxvij
-
Of
the
day
of
iugement
Capitulo
lxxxviij
-
For
to
conuerte
the
synner
to
good
lyf
Capitulo
lxxxix
-
Of
the
ioyes
of
heuen
Capitulo
lxxxx
-
Of
good
admonycyon
Capitulo
lxxxxj
-
Th
excusacion
of
hym
that
made
this
boke
capitulo
:
lxxxxij
-
The
complainte
of
hym
that
made
this
boke
Ca
lxxxxiij
¶
Explicit
the
table
¶
Of
th
artycles
of
the
crysten
feyth
Capitulo
.
primo
●●ery
try●●●n
men
&
woman
ought
tobi
leue
fermely
the
xij
artycles
of
the
casten
feith
.
for
other
wyse
he
may
not
be
saued
syth
he
hath
wytte
&
reason
&
ther
ben
xij
artycles
after
the
nombre
of
the
xij
appostols
whiche
oughten
to
be
kepte
&
holden
of
alle
them
that
wyll
be
saued
&
these
xij
articles
be
conteyned
in
the
credo
.
the
whiche
the
xij
apostoll'
made
:
of
whome
eche
of
them
made
one
article
The
fyrst
article
is
this
I
byleue
in
god
fader
almyghty
maker
of
heuen
&
of
th
erthe
.
This
article
sette
in
seynt
peter
The
ij
article
is
suche
I
byleue
●●●ly
in
our
lord
ihu
c●●●
sone
of
god
the
fader
.
&
h●●●
thou
oughtest
to
bileue
&
vnderstonde
that
he
is
semblable
to
the
fader
in
alle
thiges
that
apperteyne
to
the
●rite
/
&
is
one self
thing
with
the
fader
.
sauf
that
the
persone
of
the
fader
is
other
than
the
peas●n●
of
the
sone
.
this
article
put
in
seynt
Johan
the
●…gelyst
.
The
iij
ar●ticle
I
beleue
that
he
was
conceyued
of
the
holy
ghoost
:
&
was
born
of
the
virgyne
marye
.
the
whiche
abode
alle
way
hole
&
entiere
byfore
&
after
this
article
p●t
in
seint
iames
brother
of
saynt
iohan
the●●●elist
.
The
iiij
article
is
this
I
bileue
that
he
hath
suffred
deth
and
passyon
vnder
〈…〉
ce
pylate
the
whiche
was
Juge
in
that
tyme
of
iherusalem
for
the
remains
Wh●…
he
iugded
to
deth
and
crucyfied
him
wrang
fully
and
at
the
request
of
the
felon
iewes
dyde
doo
put
hym
in
the
sepulcre
.
This
article
put
in
saynt
andrewe
:
The
/
v
:
article
is
this
I
byleue
that
he
〈…〉
in
to
〈…〉
after
his
〈…〉
that
is
to
wete
in
to
the
partye
where
as
the
good
soules
were
in
very
feyth
and
hope
that
they
shold
be
saued
by
hym
For
●y
cause
of
the
synne
of
adam
our
fyrst
fader
it
byhoued
that
alle
descended
in
to
helle
he
went
not
in
to
that
partye
where
as
were
the
dampned
soules
perdurably
.
Thys
artycle
put
in
seint
Phelip
.
¶
The
vj
Artycle
is
suche
:
I
byleue
that
the
thirde
day
for
tacoomplysshe
the
scryptures
he
aroose
fro
deth
to
lyf
.
&
appiered
to
hys
dyscyples
.
and
pronounced
hys
resurection
in
many
maners
by
fourty
dayes
Thys
Artycle
put
in
saynt
thomas
.
The
vij
article
is
suche
that
the
xl
day
after
his
resurrection
.
whan
he
had
eten
with
hys
discyples
to
fore
them
he
openly
ascended
in
to
heuen
vnto
the
ryght
syde
of
god
the
fader
.
where
he
sytteth
.
Thys
artycle
put
in
saint
●ertyleme
we
:
The
viij
artycle
is
thys
I
byleue
that
he
shal
come
at
the
day
of
dome
for
to
iudge
the
lyuyng
and
the
deed
.
the
good
and
the
euyll
.
&
shal
rendre
to
euerych
after
that
he
hath
deserued
in
this
world
/
this
artycle
put
in
saynt
mathew
the
euangelyst
.
The
ix
artycle
is
this
I
byleue
in
the
blessyd
holy
ghoost
thys
artycle
requireth
byleue
that
the
holy
ghoost
is
the
yefte
of
the
loue
of
the
fader
and
of
the
sone
.
of
whome
cometh
alle
the
wele
of
grace
/
whyche
is
one self
god
&
one
thyng
with
the
fader
&
the
sone
/
sauf
that
the
persone
of
him
is
other
than
that
of
the
fader
&
of
the
sone
.
thys
article
put
in
saint
iames
brother
of
saint
Symon
&
iude
The
:
x.
article
is
suche
I
byleue
in
holy
chyrche
catholical
of
the
commynyon
of
sayntes
.
that
is
to
saye
of
the
companye
of
all
sayntes
/
and
of
alle
the
goode
men
that
euer
were
.
ben
.
and
shall
be
vnto
the
ende
of
the
world
.
In
thys
artycle
ben
vndrestanden
the
vij
sacrementis
of
holy
chyrche
.
that
is
to
were
baptesme
/
confyrmacion
.
the
sacrament
of
th
aulter
.
of
ordres
.
of
maryage
.
of
penaunce
.
and
of
the
last
vnction
.
This
article
put
in
seynt
Symon
.
The
xj
artycle
is
this
I
byleue
the
remyssyon
of
synnes
that
god
gyueth
by
the
vertu
of
the
blessyd
sacrementis
of
holy
chyrche
.
thys
artycle
putte
in
saynt
Jude
/
Nor
he
that
betrayed
our
lord
ihesu
cryst
.
but
he
that
was
brother
of
●●nt
Symon
.
The.
xij
artcle
is
thys
I
byleue
in
the
resurrection
of
body
and
soule
generall
.
that
is
the
Joye
of
heuen
the
whiche
god
gyueth
to
them
that
serue
hym
by
fryth
.
and
by
goode
werkes
.
Thys
artycle
gyneth
to
vndrestonde
hys
contrarye
.
that
is
payne
perdurable
that
god
appareylleth
to
them
that
be
dampned
.
and
the
lyf
perdurable
to
them
that
be
good
.
This
artycle
ought
to
be
vnderstonde
in
suche
manerr
.
that
euery
persone
good
or
euyll
shall
be
at
the
day
of
iugement
reysed
fro
deth
to
lyf
in
his
propre
body
in
whiche
he
hath
lyued
in
this
world
/
&
eueuch
shal
receyue
his
hyre
&
reward
in
body
&
in
soule
that
whiche
he
hath
deserued
in
thys
lyf
:
&
the
euyl
to
be
dampned
in
body
and
soule
perdurably
In
an
euyll
hour
shal
he
be
born
that
for
so
lytil
a
whyle
as
he
shal
haue
duellid
in
this
world
shal
lese
the
lyf
perdurable
.
This
artycle
put
in
seint
Mathie
.
Thow
oughtest
to
byleue
fermely
and
lyue
in
this
fayth
and
deye
in
alle
these
xij
artycles
And
yf
by
symplenesse
thou
hast
byleued
or
byleuest
otherwyse
in
ony
of
the
for
sayd
articles
/
thyn
entente
ought
alle
way
to
be
of
byleue
sted
fastly
lyke
as
holy
chyrche
holdeth
and
byleueth
¶
Of
Sorceryes
and
deuinacions
Ca
ij
By
cause
that
many
of
the
symple
people
byleue
and
haue
byleued
and
hath
had
fayth
in
sorceries
and
in
deuyna
ryons
we
shal
make
to
you
therof
mencyon
thou
oughtest
to
bi
leue
stedfastly
that
god
maye
alle
thyng
doo
.
&
that
without
him
maie
nothing
be
doo
by
ony
how
holy
or
good
that
he
be
.
how
thenne
byleuest
thou
&
hast
affiance
&
trust
in
sorceues
&
deuinacōns
:
certes
that
whyche
they
doo
&
saie
.
thei
doo
nothing
ne
kenowe
but
by
their
fals
byleue
&
by
reuelacyon
of
deuyllis
&
yf
thou
demande
me
wherfor
suffreth
god
it
:
I
ansuere
the
that
he
suffreth
it
not
but
for
to
proeue
the.
&
the
deuyl
also
doeth
it
for
to
dampne
the.
The
doctours
of
holy
chyrche
sayen
that
alle
the
deuinours
&
thei
that
byleue
in
them
ben
excomynied
&
accursed
of
god
and
of
holy
chyrche
.
And
as
ydolatres
&
cursyd
crysten
men
.
they
attrybute
to
the
deuyl
and
to
mankynde
t
honour
and
the
fayth
that
they
owe
to
god
.
¶
Ther
ben
somme
that
ben
sorcerers
of
herbes
.
of
wordes
.
and
other
thynges
/
And
also
ther
ben
somme
that
make
wrytynges
and
bryeuettes
full
of
crosses
and
other
wrytynges
.
And
sayen
that
alle
they
that
bere
suche
breuettys
on
them
may
not
perysshe
in
fyre
:
ne
in
water
:
ne
in
other
peryllous
place
:
And
ther
ben
also
some
breuettis
and
wrytynges
whyche
they
doo
bynde
vpon
certeyn
persones
for
to
hele
them
of
somme
sekenesses
and
maladyes
:
And
for
admonycyon
.
ne
for
predycacyon
.
ne
for
excom̄ynycacyon
that
may
be
doo
to
them
they
wyl
not
leue
it
:
Alle
they
that
make
suche
thynges
/
or
doo
make
it
.
or
bere
it
.
or
do
it
to
be
born
/
And
haue
trust
and
affyaunce
therin
.
And
they
that
selle
it
.
gyue
or
lene
it
synnen
ryght
greuously
.
But
yf
they
be
symple
people
and
so
ignoraunt
of
symplesse
/
that
by
Ignoraunce
they
be
excused
.
the
whyche
thyng
excuse
not
them
yf
they
be
suffycyentely
warned
and
taught
.
¶
we
saie
not
that
yf
ony
gadre
herbes
medycynal
in
sayeng
the
credo
or
the
pater
noster
that
it
be
dedely
synne
.
But
that
they
doo
other
thynges
and
sorceryes
.
¶
Ther
ben
somme
that
byleue
that
they
haue
their
destyne
after
the
cours
of
the
sterres
/
The
whyche
thyng
is
false
and
euyl
errour
.
For
seint
Gregorye
sayth
that
no
good
crysten
ought
to
byleue
that
thei
haue
ony
other
destynee
:
but
that
onely
god
whyche
hath
gyuen
to
them
the
lyf
be
plesed
wyth
.
it
yf
were
trouth
saith
seynt
Gregorye
that
the
sterres
were
our
destynee
:
we
shold
be
sub
gettes
to
the
sterres
:
whyche
is
a
fals
errour
to
byleue
.
For
the
sterres
be
made
for
to
serue
vs
.
And
not
we
for
the
sterres
Exam.
when
Jacob
the
holy
patryarke
shold
yssue
out
of
his
moders
¶
wombe
.
he
helde
helde
the
plante
of
the
fote
of
his
brother
Esau
.
For
hym
behoued
to
yssue
fyrst
.
And
bothe
were
born
at
tones
to
gydre
out
of
of
one
wombe
in
one
houre
neuertheles
the
lyf
of
that
one
was
not
lyke
to
that
other
/
For
Jacob
was
welbyloued
of
god
.
an
holy
man
and
of
good
lyf
:
But
Esau
was
other
.
Then
heretykes
ansueren
and
sayen
in
thys
manere
that
in
the
space
that
one
shold
prycke
a
poynt
the
constellacion
of
the
sterres
chaunge
and
torne
.
But
seint
gregorye
saith
that
the
natyuyte
of
the
chylde
is
so
grete
.
that
yf
it
torne
and
chaunge
in
the
space
of
a
poynt
lyke
as
they
saye
.
that
the
child
hath
as
many
destynees
vpon
hym
/
as
he
hath
membres
on
hym
:
It
is
redde
of
Exam
one
that
was
a
moche
grete
clerke
whyche
was
deceyued
by
grete
errour
.
For
he
aftermed
certainly
that
he
whyche
was
prede
stynate
to
be
saued
:
that
he
mnste
nedes
by
necessyte
be
saued
:
And
yf
he
were
predestynat
to
be
dampned
/
that
he
muste
nedes
by
necessyte
be
dampned
/
And
therfore
he
abandonned
and
gaf
hym self
to
doo
many
grete
synnes
.
It
happed
that
he
becam
greuously
seke
.
And
sente
for
to
seche
a
Physycyan
and
prayed
hym
that
he
wold
doo
hys
deuoyr
to
hele
hym
.
And
the
physyeyen
whyche
was
well
expert
in
medycynes
/
and
was
a
goode
Theologyen
.
And
knewe
well
hys
erronr
sayd
to
hym
.
¶
Syre
yf
ye
ought
to
deye
of
thys
maladye
I
may
in
noo
wyse
helpe
you
.
For
I
sholde
thenne
lese
my
peyne
.
And
yf
ye
shal
be
hool
and
guarysshyd
yr
shal
be
wel
heled
wythout
me
.
And
the
clerke
ansuered
.
Syre
how
sayr
ye
soo
/
I
knowe
certeynly
.
but
yf
I
haue
remedye
for
my
sekenes
.
that
I
shal
shortly
deye
.
And
the
physycien
thenne
ansuered
to
hym
.
Syre
yf
ye
byleue
that
by
the
vertu
of
medycyne
your
lyf
may
be
lengthed
/
wherfore
byleue
ye
not
that
pena
unce
may
lengthe
the
lyf
of
our
soules
.
Thenne
the
clerke
thou
ghte
in
the
vertu
of
the
wordes
of
the
valyaunt
phisicien
and
¶
thelogyen
.
and
said
to
hym
See
●
take
hede
that
fro
hens
forthon
ye
be
physicyen
of
sowlis
For
by
the
medecyne
of
your
tongue
our
lord
hath
delyuered
me
of
grete
errour
.
Byleue
thenne
stedfastly
in
god
of
whom
all
good
cometh
:
and
haue
no
faith
ne
truste
in
these
euil
deuynours
and
sorcirers
.
For
yf
ye
consydere
well
hys
bounte
and
hys
grace
ye
shal
doubte
preyse
and
loue
hym
Of
louyng
god
and
Charite
the
iij
chapitre
FAyth
without
charyte
is
deed
as
sayth
holy
scripture
charite
is
as
a
doctour
named
prosper
saith
whiche
speketh
of
the
lyf
.
contemplatyf
.
charyte
saith
he
is
the
ende
of
all
the
comandementis
celestial
.
deth
of
sinne
.
ful
of
vyctories
.
the
armes
of
holy
thoughtes
.
cause
of
good
merites
the
rewarde
of
them
that
be
parfyght
.
wythout
the
whiche
neuer
creature
plesith
god
ne
neuer
shal
playse
him
.
charite
is
ful
of
fruit
to
them
that
be
penytent
ioyous
in
them
that
perseueren
in
all
good
.
vyctoryous
in
good-merites
.
werker
in
all
good
cristen
men
&
in
whi
me
euery
good
creature
lyueth
/
And
the
said
doctour
sayth
yf
we
loue
wel
god
in
all
our
hert
:
ther
shal
neuer
be
in
vs
ony
poynt
of
desyr
for
to
synne
.
And
seynt
Austyn
sayth
:
doo
as
moche
as
thou
wylt
soo
that
charite
be
in
the.
charyte
is
to
loue
god
of
whyche
scrypture
saith
.
thou
shall
loue
god
wyth
all
they
herte
with
alle
thy
mynde
:
and
with
all
thy
strengthe
.
we
ought
to
loue
god
for
hym self
by
cause
of
his
myght
.
of
his
sapience
and
of
hys
bounte
.
and
for
cause
of
hys
benefytes
:
for
vs
whiche
were
nothyng
he
hath
made
and
fourmed
to
hys
ymage
and
to
his
semblance
&
hath
redemed
vs
fro
the
handes
of
the
fende
of
helle
and
hath
made
vs
his
chyldren
and
heyres
of
his
royame
of
heuen
/
yf
we
loue
hym
.
And
verayly
he
is
well
happy
that
remembreth
ofte
the
graces
and
benefeates
of
god
with
goode
herte
/
For
thys
remembrannce
planteth
in
hys
herte
.
and
●oteth
●he
loue
and
charite
of
god
.
And
thys
charyte
of
loue
putteth
him
and
ioyneth
his
herte
to
god
&
effaceth
and
ta
Exam
keth
away
the
loue
fro
thynges
of
the
world
¶
An
Example
It
is
redde
that
a
good
nonne
demanded
of
a
religyous
man
whether
was
better
charite
or
humylite
.
the
religyous
man
an
suerd
to
her
&
said
that
charite
is
fair
:
&
humilite
more
sure
charite
is
the
fontayne
of
god
&
the
rote
of
alle
vertues
/
and
that
is
shewyde
in
euery
persone
by
many
maners
of
whiche
we
shall
speke
of
foure
onely
.
Fyrst
whan
the
persone
loueth
god
and
aboue
all
thyng
/
And
he
be
▪
wel
ware
that
he
angre●
hym
not
.
And
kepe
hys
commandementis
.
¶
For
comfort
in
all
tribulacions
¶
Capitulo
/
iiij
SEcondly
charite
sheweth
.
whan
the
persone
for
the
loue
of
god
taketh
a
worth
&
in
pacience
alle
angursshes
peryllis
&
tribulacyons
that
comen
to
hym
.
or
that
ben
doon
to
hym
.
For
comynly
to
them
that
he
wyl
saue
&
drawe
to
his
partye
.
he
sendeth
or
suffreth
to
come
tribulacions
for
to
withdrawe
them
fro
synne
yf
they
be
synnars
For
many
shold
duelle
stylle
in
theyr
synnes
/
yf
tribulacion
or
greuenes
camen
to
them
not
for
ther
be
thre
thynges
that
purgen
synne
.
that
is
to
wede
/
Effusyon
of
t●eres
/
digne
&
worthy
prayer
.
&
to
suffre
tribulacyon
&
maladie
we
rede
in
the
lif
of
faders
.
that
ther
was
Exam
a
relygious
man
whyche
all
his
daies
he
hadde
grete
maladie
&
langour
.
It
happed
that
one
yere
he
had
noo
sekenesse
.
wherof
he
was
moche
abasshid
&
sory
.
&
wepte
greuously
and
said
to
our
lord
ihesu
cryst
.
lord
god
thou
hast
forgoten
me
&
l●fte
me
by
cause
thou
sendest
not
to
me
this
yere
some
maladye
&
sekenesse
.
Thus
sendeth
god
somme
tribulacyon
to
his
creatures
for
to
take
away
theyr
herte
fro
the
loue
of
this
wretched
world
.
to
th
ende
that
they
sette
all
theyr
mynde
&
entente
in
him
For
many
shold
forgete
or
lytyl
shold
thynke
in
god
yf
tubulacōn
cam
not
to
them
for
to
tempte
them
or
for
to
proue
them
for
n
tribulacyon
god
proueth
the
pacyence
&
the
vertu
of
the
persone
Exam
Item
for
to
doo
penaunce
for
theyr
sines
&
their
offenses
Also
we
rede
in
the
lyf
of
seynt
gregorye
that
.
whan
traian
them●e
tour
of
stomè
was
dede
seynt
gregorye
wepte
in
prayng
our
lord
ihu
cryst
for
his
soule
for
the
good
iugement
that
he
had
doon
in
hys
lyf
:
how
wel
that
he
was
a
paynem
&
anone
god
sente
to
hym
an
angel
whiche
sayd
to
him
/
that
by
cause
of
his
prayer
god
had
remised
&
sente
agayn
his
soule
in
his
bodi
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
be
baptised
.
&
after
our
swete
sauyour
sente
to
seynt
gregorye
that
he
shold
chese
of
ij
thinges
by
cause
he
had
prayd
for
the
paynem
.
that
is
to
wyte
whether
he
wold
be
ij
.
dayes
in
purgatory
after
his
deth
.
or
that
he
wold
haue
alle
the
dayes
of
his
lyf
dyuerse
sekenesses
&
maladies
.
&
yet
sayd
he
to
hym
also
that
he
shold
be
wēl
ware
&
kepe
hym
well
.
that
he
neuer
shold
praye
for
ony
that
were
dampned
.
seint
gregorye
loued
better
&
had
lieuer
to
be
seke
alle
the
dayes
of
his
lyf
.
than
to
be
ij
dayes
in
purgatori
after
his
deth
/
For
the
fyre
of
this
world
●ys
but
a
bayne
.
to
the
regard
of
the
fyre
of
purgatory
.
Item
for
tenerece
their
glorye
in
heuen
/
for
to
them
that
shal
be
saued
god
our
lord
shal
torne
alle
the
tribulacyons
that
they
haue
suffred
in
this
world
in
to
glorye
&
ioye
in
heuen
.
yf
they
suffre
them
paciently
.
&
by
these
said
causes
it
appiereth
that
god
sheweth
grete
signe
of
loue
&
of
saluacion
:
&
therfore
Job
whiche
was
the
most
pacient
man
of
the
world
&
the
most
ryche
.
the
whiche
lost
all
that
he
had
:
&
tempested
of
his
x
children
And
was
in
suche
wise
charged
of
ordure
of
rotynnesse
.
&
of
vermyne
.
that
he
laye
on
a
donghyll
/
&
he
neuer
said
an
euyll
word
but
blyssyd
all
way
our
lord
&
rendrid
to
him
&
gaaf
to
hym
thankynges
of
alle
that
he
suffryd
.
For
the
holy
scripture
sayth
that
alle
they
that
our
lord
loueth
he
correcteth
and
suffreth
them
to
be
beten
and
tormented
.
And
that
is
a
sygne
that
they
ben
in
the
remembraunce
of
our
lord
.
And
that
he
loueth
them
/
We
rede
that
seynt
ambwse
wold
neuer
abide
ne
reste
in
the
house
of
a
riche
man
by
cause
that
he
said
to
him
that
alle
his
besoygnes
and
thynges
camen
to
hym
at
his
plaisyr
without
tribulacion
&
soone
after
whan
he
was
departed
out
of
the
hous
of
the
riche
man
.
the
riche
man
&
all
his
richesses
sonken
doun
in
to
th
erthe
.
¶
Thenne
said
seint
Ambrose
well
happy
ben
they
that
god
vysyteth
in
theyr
lyf
by
somme
tribulacion
to
th
ende
that
he
punysshe
them
not
ouersore
and
hard
at
th
ende
/
For
it
behoueth
as
said
seynt
poule
that
the
creature
entre
in
to
heuene
by
many
greuous
tribulacions
.
thou
seest
wel
that
the
coupe
of
gold
suffreth
many
a
stroke
of
the
hamer
.
to
fore
it
be
sette
atte
table
of
the
kyng
siyght
soo
it
byhoueth
the
to
suffre
to fore
that
thou
mayst
come
in
to
the
companye
of
god
Jhesu
criste
.
For
the
doctours
sayen
that
it
byhoueth
that
euery
man
be
also
pure
&
clene
fro
alle
synne
at
the
entre
of
heuen
.
as
he
was
atte
houre
that
he
was
baptysed
.
Alas
how
byhoueth
it
vs
for
to
suffre
tofore
that
we
be
digne
or
worthy
to
entre
there
For
the
holy
scrypture
sayth
.
that
we
may
not
passe
one
day
wythout
to
synne
.
And
lytyl
thynke
we
thewn
but
we
thynke
well
to
haue
alle
our
eases
and
playes
.
knowe
ye
that
who
that
shall
haue
most
payne
&
trybulacyon
in
this
world
.
so
moche
more
shal
he
be
happy
in
heuene
:
yf
he
suffre
it
pacyently
for
the
loue
of
our
lord
Jhesu
criste
.
For
seynt
Jew
me
sayth
that
it
is
a
thyng
impossyble
.
that
a
man
may
haue
in
thys
world
and
in
that
other
glorye
and
fely●yte
.
And
therfore
thappostles
enioyed
them
of
the
tribulacions
that
the
iewys
dyde
to
them
.
¶
And
saynt
poul
sayth
we
appostles
haue
hungre
and
thurs●e
and
ben
naked
.
beten
:
blamed
and
cursed
.
And
we
haue
noo
manere
reste
.
But
labours
wyth
our
handes
.
&
suffre
reproches
&
tribulacions
and
ben
chyden
and
mocked
as
shep
that
shall
be
slain
/
And
neuertheles
we
blysse
them
that
curse
&
doon
euyl
to
vs
/
&
praye
for
oure
malfactours
&
euyl
doers
/
&
suffren
gladly
alle
for
the
loue
of
our
lord
Jhesu
crist
/
vnto
his
apostles
&
his
holy
sayntes
martres
lefte
our
lord
so
many
tribulacyons
that
atte
laste
somewere
stoned
&
other
beheded
.
rosted
.
&
flayn
&
many
suffred
other
hard
tormentis
&
martirdōs
.
thenne
ought
not
we
to
meru●ylle
ne
be
aba
¶
sshid
of
the
harmes
paines
.
ne
of
the
tribulacions
that
we
haue
:
who
that
wold
take
hede
and
vnderstonde
these
thynges
afore
said
wiche
is
good
and
the
euyll
.
the
helthe
and
the
maladye
the
pouerte
and
the
rychesse
.
the
lyf
and
the
deth
.
he
shold
wel
knowe
that
alle
cometh
of
god
and
of
hys
suffrannce
lyke
as
scripture
sayth
.
And
that
by
hym
ben
made
and
ordeyned
alle
thynges
except
synne
/
Item
he
is
pafyghtly
good
.
For
he
suffreth
nothyng
to
be
made
ne
to
happen
without
cause
.
wherfore
yf
a
man
remenbryd
hym
well
he
shold
alle
way
loue
god
and
serue
him
And
alle
tribulacions
suffre
pacyently
for
the
loue
of
god
¶
Of
the
dyuerse
and
derke
Jugemens
of
god
Capl'o
v
WE
rede
of
an
heremite
whiche
moche
meruaylled
of
the
dyuers
and
obscure
iugements
of
our
lord
ihu
cryst
.
and
by
temptacion
of
the
fende
he
sayd
in
his
herte
that
his
iugementis
were
not
iuste
.
For
god
suffred
the
good
men
to
haue
many
tribulacions
.
and
the
enyl
people
many
good
thyrges
:
and
god
sente
to
hym
an
angel
in
fourme
of
a
man
whiche
sayde
to
hym
in
this
manere
/
Come
and
goo
with
m
:
for
god
hath
Exam
sente
me
to
the.
For
to
lede
the
in
dyuerse
places
:
to
th
ende
that
I
shold
shewe
to
the
of
hys
dyuerse
and
obscure
iugementis
:
he
ledde
hym
first
in
to
the
hous
of
a
good
man
/
the
whyche
r●●ryued
them
benyngly
.
and
made
to
them
right
goode
chere
.
and
helde
them
wel
at
theyr
ease
On
the
morn
erly
the
angel
robbed
hys
good
hooste
of
a
fayre
cuppe
.
whyche
cuppe
he
loued
merueylously
.
Thenne
t
hermyte
was
moche
angri
and
thought
he
was
not
sent
fro
god
:
the
nyght
after
they
were
lodged
with
an
euil
hoost
whiche
made
to
them
right
euyl
chere
.
&
souped
euyll
&
had
right
euyl
beddyng
:
&
in
the
mornyng
the
angel
gaaf
to
the
euyl
hooste
the
cuppe
that
he
had
stolen
fro
the
good
hoost
the
nyght
before
.
&
when
the
hermite
sawe
that
he
had
euyl
suspecyon
vpon
th
angel
.
the
iij
night
they
were
lodged
with
a
good
hoōste
whiche
lodged
them
wel
and
made
them
Well
at
theyr
ease
.
And
on
the
morn
he
delyuered
to
them
hys
seruaunt
for
to
shewe
to
them
the
way
by
cause
they
shold
not
goo
out
of
the
waye
.
But
whan
they
were
on
a
brydge
wherouer
they
shold
passe
.
the
angel
threwe
the
seruaunt
fro
the
brydge
into
the
water
and
ther
was
drowned
:
thenne
t
hermyte
was
moche
abasshed
and
gretely
enangred
:
And
the
fourth
nyght
they
were
lodged
with
a
ryght
valyant
and
good
hoste
/
a
man
of
grete
honour
&
of
ryght
good
lyf
.
whiche
made
to
them
ryght
grete
chere
&
made
hem
wel
at
ease
.
and
lodged
them
ryght
wel
:
but
he
had
a
lytyl
yong
chyld
whyche
cessed
not
of
alle
the
nyght
to
crye
&
to
braye
in
suche
wyse
that
they
myght
not
slepe
.
Thenne
th
angel
aroose
and
went
and
slewe
the
chylde
.
And
when
t
hermyte
sawe
that
:
he
hadde
wende
that
th
angel
had
ben
a
deuyl
.
and
wold
haue
departed
from
hym
.
fayre
frend
sayd
th
angel
to
ther
myte
.
our
lord
hath
sent
me
to
the.
for
to
shewe
to
the
hys
derk
Jugementis
to
th
ende
that
thou
knowe
that
he
dooth
nothing
withoute
good
cause
/
I
telle
the
that
I
toke
the
cuppe
fro
the
good
hoost
.
by
cause
that
he
loued
it
ouer
curiousely
.
And
many
tymes
he
thought
on
it
whan
he
shold
haue
thought
on
godd
/
&
therfore
I
haue
take
it
away
from
hym
for
hys
wele
and
haue
gyuen
it
to
this
euyl
hoost
whiche
receyued
vs
euyll
.
to
th
ende
that
of
that
he
hath
doon
well
/
he
hath
hys
reward
in
this
world
and
shal
nothyng
haue
in
heuen
.
And
also
I
haue
throwen
in
to
the
water
the
seruaunt
of
that
other
hoost
.
For
he
had
entreprysed
in
his
herte
.
that
on
the
morn
he
wold
haue
slayn
his
mayster
.
And
thus
I
haue
delyuerd
our
good
hoost
fro
deth
.
&
his
seruaunt
fro
the
dede
of
homycyde
whyche
was
by
purpoos
of
euyll
by
cause
he
shold
be
the
lasse
pugnisshed
in
this
wrold
.
&
our
fourth
hoost
byfore
that
he
had
ony
chylde
dyde
moche
almesse
and
moche
good
and
alle
that
he
coude
gete
aboue
hys
lyuyng
he
gaaf
to
poure
people
for
the
loue
of
god
but
syth
that
his
sone
was
born
.
He
hath
withdrawe
his
hondes
fro
the
werkes
of
mercy
.
and
hath
kepte
all
for
his
sone
.
And
by
the
comaundement
of
our
lord
I
haue
taken
away
the
matere
&
the
cause
of
his
auaryce
.
And
haue
sente
the
soule
of
the
childe
in
to
heuen
whiche
was
innocent
.
And
when
t
hermyte
had
herde
all
this
/
he
was
delyuered
of
all
the
euyll
tamptacyons
that
he
had
.
&
glorified
god
&
hys
obscure
iugementis
whiche
ben
as
a
grete
sowolowe
without
bottome
.
lyke
as
sayth
the
prophete
Thou
whiche
haste
herde
the
iugementis
of
god
put
them
in
thyn
herte
:
for
to
gyue
to
the
example
for
to
suffre
wel
.
and
to
endure
alle
tribulacions
and
alle
euyllys
pacyently
.
For
we
haue
also
example
that
more
and
better
auaylleth
&
ought
to
moeue
vs
than
th
example
whiche
we
haue
sayd
&
that
is
of
our
lord
Jhesu
crist
whiche
fro
his
glorie
of
heuene
descended
in
to
the
valeye
of
myserye
that
is
in
to
this
worlde
after
that
he
was
born
of
the
virgyne
marye
vnto
the
time
that
he
was
put
on
the
tree
of
the
crosse
he
had
alleway
pouerte
.
peyne
.
reproches
.
and
tribulacyoos
:
And
in
th
ende
suffred
deth
and
ryght
dolorouse
passion
as
thou
shalt
here
now
recyted
wyth
the
helpe
of
hym
.
whiche
gyue
vs
grace
a
men
/
¶
Of
the
passyon
of
our
lord
Capitulo
vj
NOw
late
vs
beholde
by
pitie
.
how
the
sone
of
god
wold
suffre
for
vs
.
how
wel
that
we
may
not
wryte
all
.
Neuertheles
some
thyng
we
shal
be
holde
to
th
ende
that
we
may
loue
hym
the
better
&
for
to
moèue
our
lxries
whim
the●
better
/
our
lord
whan
the
hour
of
his
passyon
approched
he
yssued
out
with
hys
dyscyples
to
the
monnt
of
olyuete
in
to
a
gardeyn
.
where
he
went
oftymes
for
to
praye
.
And
there
he
sayd
to
hys
dyscyples
/
that
he
was
heuy
and
soroufull
vnto
the
deth
/
And
he
withdre
we
hym
a
lytill
fro
hys
discyples
.
And
put
hym self
to
prayer
/
And
to
hym
that
was
very
god
and
man
/
and
knewe
all
thyng
that
was
to
come
to
whom
was
presented
&
sette
to
fore
hys
eyen
in
a
moment
all
that
whyche
he
shold
suffre
.
and
incontynent
after
hys
humanyte
.
and
after
his
flessh
.
he
had
therof
so
grete
an
horrour
that
he
swette
for
anguyssh
water
and
blood
whiche
dropped
doun
to
th
erthe
out
of
all
his
body
.
and
ther
apered
to
hym
an
Aungel
fro
heuen
whyche
conforted
hym
.
O
herte
deuoute
beholde
the
kyng
of
glorie
Whyche
is
ioye
:
and
solace
to
angellis
of
heuen
.
the
whyche
for
to
gyue
to
the
ioye
&
lyf
with
out
deth
:
is
soroufull
&
anguysshous
vnto
the
deth
.
he
that
hath
made
the
angellis
is
conforted
of
an
angel
/
Merueylle
the
nothyng
yf
he
whiche
is
god
hadde
at
hys
deth
drede
and
anguissshe
as
a
man
.
For
he
toke
in
thnmanyte
alle
the
defaultes
&
maladeis
that
a
man
may
haue
excepte
synne
and
ignoraunce
he
synned
neuer
/
and
also
knewe
alle
thyng
.
Ryght
soone
after
cam
the
traytour
Judas
that
hadde
solde
hym
.
with
a
grete
companye
of
euyl
peple
whiche
camen
in
the
nyght
wyth
lanternes
in
armes
for
to
take
hym
.
And
the
blyssed
Jhesus
fledde
not
.
but
came
to
them
:
And
how
well
that
he
knewe
wel
what
they
demaunded
.
yet
he
said
to
them
.
whom
seche
ye
.
they
ansuered
to
hym
.
we
seche
Jhesus
of
nazareth
.
and
he
said
to
them
/
I
am
he
.
for
to
withdrawe
them
fro
theyr
wickednes
And
to
th
ende
that
they
shold
knowe
hys
puyssaunce
.
anon
as
he
had
said
I
am
he
.
they
fyl
doun
bacward
to
th
erthe
.
yet
after
thys
Jhesu
cryst
sayd
to
them
/
whome
seche
ye
.
They
ansuerd
to
hym
Jhesus
of
nazareth
:
I
haue
sayd
that
I
am
he
/
yf
ye
seche
me
.
late
my
dyscyples
goo
.
and
doo
ye
to
them
non
harme
.
Here
ought
to
be
noted
.
how
he
gaaf
example
to
them
that
haue
subiettes
vnder
them
how
they
ought
to
loue
:
kepe
/
and
deffende
them
.
And
by
cause
saynt
James
the
lasse
resembled
of
vysage
to
our
lord
.
the
false
Judas
was
a
ferde
that
they
shold
haue
faylled
to
haue
taken
our
lord
.
And
therfore
he
salued
our
lord
sayeng
and
callyng
hym
Raby
that
is
to
saye
Mayster
.
&
kyssed
hym
on
the
mouth
wyth
hys
mouth
enuenimed
Alas
that
ther
be
many
in
these
dayes
that
kyssen
hym
and
receyuen
in
sygne
of
deuocyon
and
of
loue
.
whiche
ben
false
and
traittres
vnto
hym
for
theyr
synne
and
euyll
ypocrysye
.
And
anone
as
the
euyl
and
false
Judas
had
kyssyd
on
hys
swete
mouth
he
was
taken
on
alle
sydes
and
seased
and
they
bonde
hys
hondes
as
a
theef
.
and
brought
hym
in
to
the
hous
of
the
prynce
of
prestes
of
Jewes
.
¶
And
passed
forth
alle
that
nyght
in
dooynge
despyte
and
Iniuryes
to
the
swete
lombe
whyche
sayd
not
one
worde
.
for
ony
thyng
that
they
dyde
to
hym
/
And
thenne
lefte
hym
alle
hys
dyscyples
:
And
fledde
from
hym
sauf
saynt
Johan
theuangelyste
and
saynt
petre
:
whiche
folowed
a
ferre
as
they
that
were
moste
trewest
and
that
moost
loued
hym
.
whan
the
swete
debonayre
lombe
Jhesus
was
in
theyr
hondes
/
they
couered
hys
face
:
and
gaaf
hym
grete
buffettes
and
strokes
on
his
hede
.
and
sayd
to
hym
in
despyte
that
he
shold
rede
and
prophecye
who
had
smeton
hym
in
hys
gloryouse
face
and
on
hys
hede
Thenne
after
thys
the
felon
Jewes
foule
and
stynkyng
spytte
vylaynsly
in
hys
fayre
vysage
.
And
brought
false
wytnesses
agenst
hym
.
And
in
alle
the
maneres
they
myght
:
they
dyde
to
hym
despyte
and
confusyon
.
¶
O
deuoute
persone
consydere
and
beholde
.
that
it
is
a
grete
despyte
to
spytte
in
the
face
of
a
knight
And
yet
more
grete
in
the
visage
of
an
Erle
or
of
a
duke
.
but
it
shold
be
ouer
grete
despite
to
spytte
in
the
vysage
of
a
kynge
O
lord
god
.
O
what
confusyon
was
it
to
spytte
with
the
stynkynge
mouthes
of
●n
felon
Jewēs
in
the
face
of
the
kyng
of
glorye
.
And
the
swete
Jhesus
suffred
alle
benygnely
.
And
hys
bounte
receyued
alle
theyr
fylthes
and
ordures
in
hys
swete
vysage
withoute
tornyng
hyther
or
thyder
/
lyke
as
he
sayth
by
hys
prophete
.
I
haue
not
torned
away
my
face
fro
them
that
lothed
me
and
byspytte
me
And
certaynly
a
creature
may
not
dygnely
ne
Worthely
remembre
ne
recounte
thys
tonfusion
:
O
ryght
swete
Jhesus
what
suffredest
thou
for
vs
:
for
this
suffysed
not
to
the
felon
Jewes
.
but
on
the
morn
erly
they
ledde
the
as
a
theef
.
&
presented
the
to
pylate
/
lyke
as
a
man
worthy
to
deye
.
and
requyred
and
cryed
wyth
hye
crye
for
to
put
the
ryght
swete
Jhesu
to
deth
and
to
be
crucyfyed
¶
O
lord
god
how
well
that
the
Juge
was
euyll
and
cruell
.
Neuertheles
he
said
to
them
/
that
he
fonde
in
the
no
cause
of
deth
and
de●tes
he
sayd
very
trouthe
.
but
thou
woldest
paye
the
sootte
:
why●lx
thou
haddest
not
bore
wed
.
O
deuoute
soule
.
yf
thou
haddest
seen
that
tyme
thy
maker
.
thy
brother
/
thy
fader
thy
frende
.
the
ryght
swete
Jhesu
cryst
thy
souerayn
Juge
and
the
kyng
of
glorye
.
stondynge
to
fore
the
Juge
without
reuerence
and
without
honour
.
that
lyke
as
a
sheep
to
fore
the
sherar
spacke
not
aworde
.
but
helde
hym
alle
stylle
wythout
ansuere
.
ayenst
many
crymes
and
falsenes
that
the
felon
Jewes
leyde
on
hym
wrongfully
and
purposed
ayenst
hym
/
And
requyreden
that
Barabas
:
whyche
that
for
dmycyde
and
fo●t
h●efte
was
put
in
pryson
shold
by
delyuered
¶
And
he
whyche
was
pure
and
Innocent
whyche
neuer
dyde
synne
.
sholde
be
put
to
deth
.
There
thou
myghtest
haue
herde
how
cruelly
they
cryed
to
the
Juge
.
¶
Take
hym
take
hym
.
and
crucyfye
hym
.
lyke
as
they
had
abhomynacyon
to
see
hym
/
And
as
they
myght
not
beholde
hym
I
too
w
that
thou
sholdest
not
haue
kept
the
fro
wepyng
.
And
therfore
escryeth
saynt
Austyn
sayenge
.
¶
O
glorye
of
Angellys
.
&
obprobrye
of
men
/
that
is
to
saye
he
whiche
is
glorye
of
angellys
.
is
bycomen
rep●●ef
and
illusyon
of
men
Thenne
wh●n
Pylate
sawe
that
he
myght
not
appease
them
he
made
the
swete
Jhesus
to
be
despoylled
and
bounde
to
a
st●k
or
a
pyller
.
and
hys
tendre
vyrgynall
flessh
to
be
cruelly
〈◊〉
▪
and
tormented
so
moche
that
the
precyous
blood
ranne
doune
by
grete
habundaunce
alle
a
longe
hys
backe
and
precyous
sydes
.
whyche
had
not
deserued
it
.
After
pilate
brought
hym
and
shewed
hym
alle
naked
to
the
felon
Jewes
alle
hys
body
full
of
woundes
and
blood
▪
And
for
to
knowe
yf
thys
had
suffysed
to
them
.
he
sayd
to
them
.
loo
see
the
man
.
lyke
as
〈◊〉
wold
haue
moeued
them
to
pyte
for
to
see
hym
so
vylainsly
beten
.
For
naturelly
.
a
man
ought
to
haue
pyte
of
a
man
so
wounded
and
beten
.
but
the
●als
traitres
and
euyll
Jewes
might
nothyng
be
appeased
.
tyll
that
he
had
Judged
hym
to
deth
●
delyuered
hym
:
O
deuoute
persone
opene
the
eyen
of
thyn
hart
and
see
the
kynge
of
Angellis
whyche
is
Juge
of
the
lyuynge
and
dede
.
and
that
alle
the
world
shal
Judge
.
whyche
of
a
iudge
and
a
man
mortal
is
Judged
to
deth
so
vylaynously
.
as
to
be
crucyfyed
.
whyche
thenne
was
the
moost
hard
deth
.
the
most
foule
.
and
the
most
shamefullest
that
myght
be
▪
For
the
theues
were
put
to
deth
by
the
same
deth
.
See
how
vylaynsly
the
felons
Jewes
despoylleden
the
swete
lambe
Jhesus
of
hys
to
be
or
garnementis
/
And
clad
hym
with
a
●●be
of
purpre
.
And
sette
vpon
hys
hyde
a
crowne
of
thornes
sharp
and
pryckynge
so
that
hys
precyous
blood
ran
doun
ouer
hys
fayre
vysage
.
and
in
his
ryght
hond
they
put
a
staf
.
in
sygne
of
a
deptre
royall
.
and
knelid
byfore
hym
by
grete
derysion
.
and
sayeng
I
sale
we
the
kyng
of
Jewes
.
And
so
sayenge
spytte
in
his
face
.
And
smote
hys
precyous
hyde
wyth
staues
that
they
helde
¶
O
lord
god
man
remembre
the
that
thou
art
he
that
berest
semblaunce
and
ymage
of
the
kynge
dyuyne
:
and
neuertheles
●●plenesshyd
of
confusion
.
¶
Thys
is
thy
kynge
and
thy
god
whyche
is
reproued
and
s●ytte
as
a
meselle
.
and
the
most
a
solate
of
alle
the
Jewes
:
by
whoin
thou
art
delyuered
for
confusion
perdurable
.
and
hath
saued
the
fro
the
wounde
of
pryde
whan
the
felon
Jewes
were
fylled
of
suche
vylanyes
and
of
doyng
suche
despytes
to
this
swete
lambe
/
whiche
opened
not
hys
swete
mouth
ayenst
them
.
they
cladde
hym
agayn
wyth
his
●●be
.
And
leyd
vpon
hys
sholdres
the
crosse
and
ladde
him
to
the
mount
of
Caluarye
for
to
be
crucyfyed
wyth
ij
/
theues
for
to
put
hym
to
more
shame
and
confusion
/
Ther
was
the
kyng
of
angellys
despoyllyd
alle
naked
to
fore
alle
the
people
couerd
onely
wyth
an
olde
sudarye
aboute
hys
raynes
And
somme
sayen
that
it
was
a
pyece
of
the
mantel
of
hys
swete
moder
thenne
beyng
sorowefull
whyche
was
presente
:
whyche
cutted
it
of
for
to
couere
hym
.
And
it
may
wel
be
byleued
.
For
in
suche
places
as
the
crucyfyeng
of
our
lord
is
paynted
by
the
honde
of
a
good
maystre
.
that
the
mantel
of
our
ladye
and
the
cloth
that
is
about
the
raynes
of
our
lord
ought
to
be
of
one
colour
.
¶
Thenne
was
the
kynge
of
alle
the
world
throwen
on
the
crosse
cruelly
.
and
so
drawen
and
stratched
in
manere
of
an
hyde
:
that
a
man
myght
lyghtly
acounte
and
rekene
alle
the
bones
of
hys
body
.
Accordyng
to
the
holy
scrypture
:
¶
There
were
hys
holy
hondes
▪
whyche
by
theyr
attouchyng
had
heled
but
late
tofore
the
meseles
.
the
blynde
/
men
/
And
other
seek
men
persed
of
grete
sharpe
nayles
.
¶
And
the
swete
feet
whyche
had
so
ferre
god
and
trauaylled
for
the
helthe
of
alle
mankynde
.
&
after
was
enhaunced
on
hye
on
the
crosse
now
remembre
thou
deuoute
creature
in
thyn
herte
how
whan
the
blessyd
bodyof
our
sauyour
●hū
crist
was
leyed
on
the
crosse
how
the
felons
iewes
.
nayled
hys
ryght
honde
wyth
a
grete
nayle
so
fast
to
the
crosse
that
no
drope
of
blod
yssued
out
.
but
aboute
the
wounde
the
blod
withinforth
began
to
swelle
&
we
●ed
ble
we
and
bloo
al
about
the
naylle
.
And
that
other
arme
wyth
alle
the
body
shranke
and
drewe
to
that
hond
/
¶
And
whan
they
shold
haue
naylled
the
lyfte
hand
it
was
so
shr●nken
that
it
wold
not
reche
to
the
place
where
they
had
ordeined
it
to
be
naylled
by
a
grete
dele
/
And
thenne
by
force
they
drewe
it
wyth
cordes
to
the
place
and
there
naylled
it
to
the
crosse
so
faste
that
no
blode
myght
yssue
out
/
Thenne
ye
may
wel
vnderstande
that
alle
the
body
and
hys
legges
shr●nken
so
moche
vp
that
hys
feet
myght
not
come
to
the
place
of
the
place
asygned
where
they
shold
be
naylled
/
wherfore
wyth
grete
vyolende
and
strengthe
they
drewe
doun
hys
legges
and
feet
to
the
plade
where
as
they
naylled
them
wyth
grete
strengthe
so
soore
&
so
faste
that
no
drope
of
blood
yet
yssued
out
neyther
of
hondes
ne
of
feet
/
But
thou
shol●●st
haue
seen
the
hondes
and
feet
so
naylled
/
swollen
and
black
of
the
blood
whyche
myght
not
yssue
.
¶
Now
thynke
denoute
creature
and
fele
in
thyn
herte
yf
thou
myghtest
suffre
th
anguysshe
that
our
lord
suffred
for
the
whan
hys
precyous
body
was
lyfte
vp
and
hanged
on
the
crosse
.
And
the
crosse
fylle
doun
in
the
sokette
of
the
mortays
:
Thou
oughtest
well
to
byleue
that
whan
hys
holy
body
whyche
was
heuy
and
pesaunt
began
to
hange
and
the
crosse
fylle
in
to
the
mortays
:
that
it
byhoued
by
force
the
woundes
of
hys
feet
and
hys
hondes
to
bresten
and
opene
.
¶
For
the
weyght
of
the
body
drewe
doun
hys
armes
.
And
the
naylles
helden
fast
for
they
were
grete
and
strong
in
suche
wyse
that
they
opened
the
woundes
/
and
the
blood
cam
renninge
doun
habundauntly
.
And
yet
more
in
the
sayd
fallynge
doun
of
the
crosse
wyth
the
body
in
to
the
mortays
the
synewys
and
vaynes
of
hys
swete
blessyd
body
alle
to
breken
.
¶
O
thou
sinnar
man
or
woman
byholde
and
see
in
thys
myr●●nr
of
pacyence
and
lerne
to
suffre
.
For
in
alle
thyse
greuous
tormentes
that
the
swete
Thū
cust
suffryd
for
the
he
opened
neuer
hys
mouth
.
ne
made
noo
complaynte
.
ne
excusacion
.
ne
menasses
:
ne
cursynges
ayenst
the
felons
Jewes
and
tormentours
.
but
spredde
vpon
hys
enemyes
wordes
of
merueyllous
blessynges
whyche
neuer
〈◊〉
had
ben
herde
.
For
he
prayd
for
them
to
his
fader
/
and
said
in
this
manere
.
Fader
pardoue
them
for
they
knowe
not
what
they
doo
.
And
by
the
vertue
of
this
holy
wordes
and
prayer
were
afterward
many
conuerted
to
our
lord
Jhesu
Cryste
▪
and
were
redemed
and
wasshen
of
the
precyous
blood
that
he
had
shedde
.
And
as
seynt
Austyn
sayth
opene
thyn
eyen
of
thyn
herte
/
and
beholde
the
swete
Jhesu
crist
For
from
the
plante
of
the
feet
vnto
the
hyest
of
hys
heed
was
on
hym
noo
place
:
but
it
was
wounded
and
couerd
with
blood
.
beholde
thenne
the
dysposicion
of
hys
body
.
he
had
his
armes
spredde
and
stratched
a
brode
for
tenbrace
the.
he
had
hys
glorious
hede
bowed
and
enclined
for
to
kysse
the.
he
had
hys
feete
fast
naylled
for
to
abyde
with
the.
and
in
alle
thy
werkes
and
temptacions
seke
him
there
.
For
thou
shal
fynde
hym
there
on
the
crosse
.
whan
the
houre
of
hys
dolorouse
deth
approched
he
behelde
his
swete
moder
.
whyche
was
in
so
grete
anguyssh
and
torment
that
no
herte
may
thinke
it
.
For
alle
th
anguysshes
Iniuries
:
vylonnies
.
and
the
despytes
that
he
suffred
in
dyuerses
partyes
of
his
body
.
the
ryght
swete
and
sorouful
moder
bare
in
her
herde
.
by
whiche
she
was
more
than
a
martyr
.
lyke
as
saint
Austyn
sayth
.
For
she
suffred
as
moche
or
more
in
her
herbe
/
as
the
martyrs
suffreden
in
theyr
bodyes
¶
And
it
grieued
as
moche
or
more
to
the
swete
Jhesu
Criste
thanguis
she
of
hys
swete
moder
whome
he
sawe
to
fore
hym
.
as
dyde
the
payne
and
harme
that
he
suffred
in
his
body
:
And
behelde
her
benygnely
and
saide
to
her
swetely
.
woman
.
loo
there
thy
sone
sayd
he
of
saynt
Johan
theuangelyste
whyche
was
presente
in
heuynesse
/
And
in
grete
sorowe
of
herte
/
And
after
saide
to
saint
Johan
.
loo
there
thy
moder
Now
thynke
what
anguisshe
thenne
she
felte
in
her
herte
.
whan
she
herde
the
swete
voys
of
her
dere
sone
whyche
thenne
was
on
deyenge
.
sayenge
that
she
shold
receyue
in
stede
of
suche
a
sone
hys
neuewe
/
and
for
the
maker
the
creature
.
whan
the
houre
of
none
approched
.
he
demaundyd
drinke
&
said
I
thurste
.
O
swete
Jhesus
.
¶
This
said
saint
bernard
wherfore
playnest
the
of
thurste
.
and
spekest
nothyng
of
thyn
other
tormentes
/
of
whyche
thy
body
is
so
greuously
tormented
/
Certes
lord
thys
thruste
is
nothing
but
of
our
helthe
wherfore
thou
hast
so
grete
thurst
and
so
grete
desire
that
thou
deydest
for
the
talente
therof
cruelly
:
After
one
raught
to
hym
for
to
drinke
a
sponge
of
galle
meddelyd
wyth
vynaygre
:
And
whan
the
blessyd
kynge
of
glorye
had
ben
on
the
crosse
thespace
of
thre
houres
.
the
sonne
withdrewe
her
light
and
clerenes
.
And
the
derkenes
was
vpon
the
vnyuersal
erthe
and
Jhus
crist
sayth
wyhta
lowe
voys
.
It
is
fynysshed
&
after
cried
with
an
hye
voys
:
to
th
ende
that
he
myght
be
herde
a
ferre
by
cause
none
shold
excuse
hym
:
Fader
I
yelde
and
rendre
my
spyrite
in
to
thy
hondes
.
Thennne
they
that
were
comen
to
the
sight
.
retorned
betyng
theyr
brestes
for
the
tokenes
that
they
sawe
:
And
Centurio
whan
he
sawe
thys
.
gaaf
glorye
to
god
and
sayd
.
verayly
thys
man
was
the
sone
of
god
.
Byholde
now
deuoute
persone
hym
whyche
is
the
lyghte
and
clerenes
of
heuen
Joye
and
glorye
of
alle
the
sayntes
and
is
the
most
fayre
of
alle
the
sones
of
men
.
See
hym
hanged
and
deed
on
the
crosse
as
a
th●eflothed
and
blamed
for
our
loue
.
and
yf
thou
haue
ony
pyte
or
swetenes
wepe
tendrely
.
be
thou
nomore
harde
than
the
elementes
/
And
the
thynges
insensible
as
the
sonne
whyche
withdrewe
hys
light
and
clerenes
/
And
certayn
yf
thou
be
very
frende
of
hym
.
that
so
derely
hath
redemed
the.
thou
oughtest
also
to
leue
alle
the
clerenes
of
thys
world
.
the
vayne
glorie
:
and
the
folisshe
Joye
of
delyces
/
And
to
flee
the
Joyouse
worldly
companyes
.
¶
And
thou
oughtest
to
crucyfye
thyn
hert
by
penaunces
wyth
thy
lord
and
thy
frende
Jhesu
crist
.
The
stones
cleften
.
the
erthe
trembled
.
And
monumentes
opened
.
¶
Thou
oughtest
also
cleue
thy
herte
by
contrycyon
.
and
by
compassion
tremble
alle
for
drede
.
And
opene
thy
herte
by
teres
of
deuocyon
¶
For
these
thre
maneres
of
teeres
▪
oughteste
thou
to
haue
.
¶
yf
thou
be
the
frende
of
god
.
that
is
to
we●●
of
contricion
▪
&
compassion
/
and
of
deuocion
.
For
the
thre
causes
of
hys
deth
.
¶
The
fyrst
cam
of
vs
whan
the
swete
Jhesu
crist
deyde
for
vs
synners
.
as
sayth
th
apostle
.
And
aroos
for
our
Justyficacion
.
And
therfore
we
oughte
moche
to
waylle
and
wepe
bytterly
teres
of
contrycion
for
our
synnes
.
whyche
ben
cause
of
the
deth
of
Jhesu
crist
.
and
of
our
dampnacion
yf
god
had
not
had
mercy
on
vs
/
¶
The
seconde
cause
of
hys
deth
as
touchyng
his
partye
was
for
the
loue
that
he
had
to
vs
.
lyke
as
sayth
saint
John
in
th
apocalyps
.
he
hath
loued
vs
sayd
he
.
and
hath
wesshen
our
synnes
in
hys
blood
And
by
cause
that
he
deyde
for
our
loue
.
we
ought
without
dessynge
wepe
teres
of
deuocyon
.
After
thys
by
cause
he
deyde
of
a
deth
so
shameful
he
beynge
our
brother
after
thumanyte
.
and
our
fader
after
the
dyuynite
/
we
ought
to
wepe
teres
of
pyte
and
of
compassion
.
he
sholde
be
ryght
disnaturel
that
shold
see
hys
fader
and
hys
brother
deye
wrongfully
of
a
vylanous
deth
.
But
yf
he
had
therof
compassion
/
And
certes
for
the
consideracion
of
the
paynes
.
of
the
tormentis
.
and
of
th
anguysshes
that
our
swete
lord
and
trewe
frende
suffred
for
vs
we
ought
to
despyse
alle
worldly
delices
.
And
by
the
consideracion
of
the
pouertees
that
he
suffred
alle
his
lyf
for
vs
.
and
how
he
deyed
poure
and
naked
.
For
he
had
not
so
moche
as
he
myght
recline
to
his
gloryous
hede
.
we
ought
to
haue
in
grete
despyte
alle
the
richesses
of
the
world
.
¶
After
that
the
swete
Jhesus
Crist
was
dede
.
the
Jewes
dyde
to
hym
grete
cruelte
.
¶
For
they
dyde
doo
perce
hys
precyous
syde
.
with
a
spere
.
to
th
ende
that
thou
mightest
more
lightly
entre
vnto
his
herte
.
Entre
thenne
in
to
this
preciouse
side
by
grete
desir
and
by
deuoute
loue
.
not
by
ypocrisie
.
and
in
all
thy
tribulacions
and
aduersitees
haue
thy
recours
ther.
&
haue
in
minde
that
the
wounde
is
litil
wherfore
thou
maist
not
entre
.
yf
thou
be
not
litil
by
humylyte
and
pouerte
of
herte
:
for
the
proud
and
riche
men
be
ouer
grete
&
ouer
moche
charged
werfore
they
may
not
entre
:
after
these
thinges
the
precyous
body
was
taken
doun
fro
the
crosse
.
And
put
in
to
the
sepulcre
.
and
deuoutly
anoynted
wyth
precyous
oynement
And
wrapped
in
a
fayre
sudarye
and
clene
.
Now
take
hede
that
thou
haue
in
thy
memorye
thys
blessyd
passyon
:
And
thynke
often
on
alle
the
thynges
that
the
swete
Jhesu
cryst
wold
suffre
for
to
moeue
the
to
swete
teres
.
And
to
deuoute
loue
and
compassyon
.
Also
to
very
penaunce
.
and
pacience
And
whan
the
swete
Jhesu
Cryst
was
dede
.
He
descended
in
to
one
of
the
partyes
of
h●elle
for
to
delyure
hys
frendes
:
¶
And
the
thyrde
day
aroos
fro
deth
to
lyf
.
And
by
fourty
dayes
folowynge
he
shewde
hym
to
hys
dyscyples
and
frendes
in
t
herte
¶
And
after
on
the
day
of
hys
Ascencyon
he
styed
vp
in
to
heuene
:
And
on
the
day
of
pentecoste
.
whyche
is
called
wytsonday
he
sente
the
holy
ghoost
vpon
hys
dyscyples
/
And
alle
this
dyde
he
for
vs
.
For
he
hath
gyuen
to
vs
hope
and
we
ought
to
byleue
that
he
shal
reyse
vs
fro
deth
to
lyf
.
¶
And
he
shal
make
vs
to
stye
vp
in
to
heuen
wyth
hym
yf
we
take
on
vs
the
peyne
to
ryse
fro
deth
of
synne
to
the
lyf
of
grace
.
And
also
that
we
▪
mounte
alle
way
to
heuen
especyally
by
holy
desyres
and
deuoute
meditacyons
and
that
our
herte
be
sette
alle
in
hym
.
and
redy
to
receyue
the
holy
ghoost
.
And
thys
we
beseche
hym
to
graunte
to
vs
by
the
prayers
of
hys
swete
moder
.
and
by
the
merytes
of
hys
holy
passyon
.
the
whiche
be
alle
way
enroted
in
our
hertes
amen
.
¶
Now
hast
thou
herd
recyted
somwhat
of
the
paynes
and
trybulacyons
that
the
swete
Jhesu
cryst
hath
suffred
not
for
hym self
.
But
for
the
/
For
as
saynt
peter
saith
he
dyde
neuer
synne
:
Thenne
oughtest
thou
wel
to
suffre
pacyently
alle
trybulacions
and
aduersitees
that
may
come
to
the.
And
thou
oughtest
to
bileue
stedfastli
that
thou
suffrest
moche
lasse
than
thou
hast
deserued
.
And
certes
thi
grief
shal
be
aswaged
yf
thou
thus
thynke
welle
.
And
thou
shalt
be
wel
reconforted
on
the
swete
ihu
¶
criste
whiche
so
moche
hath
loued
the
that
he
hath
made
the
to
drynke
of
hys
chalyce
that
is
to
saye
that
he
hath
made
the
suffre
wyth
hym
▪
p●ynes
grye●●●
and
tribulacions
/
¶
Of
the
vertu
and
dignite
of
the
crosse
.
Capitulo
vij
THe
blessyd
crosse
on
whyche
was
crucyfyed
our
lord
lyke
as
sonie
saye
was
of
iiij
trees
.
that
is
to
wete
of
palme
/
of
Cedre
.
of
Cypres
.
and
of
Olyue
/
And
of
eche
of
them
ther
was
a
pece
.
that
is
to
wete
.
the
siege
or
sokette
vnder
the
piece
ryght
vp
.
the
pyece
that
wente
th
wart
.
and
the
table
aboue
in
the
whiche
Pilate
wrote
these
iiij
wordes
/
in
grek
.
in
he
brew
:
and
in
latyn
/
lo
these
ben
the
iiij
wordes
.
Thuns
.
nazarenus
rex
iudeorum
That
is
to
saye
ihesus
of
nazareth
kyng
of
Jewes
/
Origene
sayth
that
the
crosse
is
of
so
grete
vertue
that
who
that
faythfully
haue
it
in
hys
remembraunce
:
nener
shal
ony
lecherye
haue
domyuacyon
in
hym
ne
noo
malyce
of
synne
may
preuayle
in
him
.
but
assone
as
one
hath
remembraunce
therof
alle
the
companye
of
synne
and
r●morse
of
synne
fleeth
fro
hym
.
Example
of
lechery
IT
is
sayd
in
the
vertu
of
the
rosse
/
that
tofore
that
seint
Cypryan
was
Crysten
/
he
was
a
mayster
in
arte
magyke
and
in
nygromancye
.
And
he
was
a
noble
man
and
ryche
and
loued
so
moche
saynt
Justyne
virgine
that
he
myght
not
slepe
ne
restehe
came
to
saint
iustine
&
promised
to
hermany
grete
yeftes
to
th
ende
that
she
shold
consente
to
be
his
wyffe
Ciprian
seing
that
he
mighthaue
not
his
entent
&
desire
dide
doo
calle
a
deuil
▪
&
comanded
him
that
he
shold
god
to
her
for
tenbrace
her
in
the
loue
of
him
.
the
deuille
wente
thider
in
the
semblaunce
of
hir
nourrisse
for
to
entreate
her
to
doo
the
cōman̄dem̄t
of
ciprian
/
but
anone
as
she
felt
her self
so
enbraced
she
signed
&
blessyd
her
with
the
signe
of
the
crosse
and
anone
the
deuyl
departed
fro
her
.
and
retorned
to
Cypryen
alle
ashawed
and
said
to
hym
that
he
myght
not
haue
her
.
&
thenne
Cypryan
called
another
more
foul
&
horrible
deuyl
and
sent
hym
to
her
.
but
he
dyde
also
lytyl
as
that
other
.
This
deuyl
was
in
the
lyknes
of
her
suster
/
Thirdly
cyprian
called
an
other
deuyl
&
he
wente
in
lyknes
of
her
moder
.
&
began
strongly
to
wepe
to
fore
her
.
&
said
to
her
.
O
fayre
doughter
how
cruelly
shalt
thou
be
tormented
yf
thou
doo
not
the
wyll
.
and
desyre
of
thys
noble
man
:
and
thys
deuyll
was
the
mayster
of
alle
other
/
And
for
the
more
to
moeue
her
.
he
shewed
to
her
her
brestes
of
whyche
she
sayde
she
had
gyuen
her
to
souke
.
¶
Thenne
the
mayde
almost
consented
.
but
anone
she
blyssyd
with
her
the
sygne
of
the
holy
crosse
And
the
deuyl
wente
away
alle
confused
to
Cypryen
&
was
constrayned
to
saye
the
trouthe
and
sayd
to
hym
/
that
by
the
vertu
of
the
holy
crosse
.
the
mayde
had
vaynquysshed
hym
whan
Cypryan
herde
thys
he
sayd
.
I
renounce
the
and
alle
thy
werkes
.
And
byleue
in
hym
of
whom
the
holy
crosse
hath
so
moche
strengthe
.
¶
Thenne
the
deuyll
was
angry
.
and
wende
to
haue
taken
hym
for
to
tormente
.
But
he
sygned
hym
wyth
the
sygne
of
the
holy
crosse
and
so
escaped
fro
hym
And
wente
forthwyth
and
knelyd
doun
at
the
feet
of
Justyne
the
virgyne
/
and
cryed
her
mercy
:
And
after
he
dyde
doo
baptyse
hym
.
&
ledde
after
soo
holy
a
lyf
.
that
by
the
crowne
of
martyrdoom
he
regneth
wyth
our
lord
perdurably
:
¶
An
Exam
Example
Seynt
Gregorye
recounteth
in
hys
dyalogue
that
a
nonne
entred
on
a
tyme
in
to
a
gardyn
/
and
sawe
a
fayre
lettuse
.
of
whiche
she
had
an
appetyte
to
ete
.
and
gadred
it
and
ete
it
wythout
to
blesse
it
or
to
make
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
theron
and
anone
she
was
taken
of
a
deuyl
whiche
entred
in
to
her
And
anone
she
fylle
to
th
erthe
/
An
holy
man
named
Aquyne
came
hastely
to
her
.
And
coniured
her
And
anone
the
deuyl
began
to
crye
and
saye
.
what
haue
I
doon
to
the.
I
satte
vpon
thys
Lettuse
:
¶
And
she
is
comen
and
hath
eten
me
:
And
anone
by
the
commaundement
of
the
holy
man
.
&
by
the
vertue
of
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
.
the
deuyl
wente
hys
way
and
lefte
her
:
¶
An
Example
.
Item
saynt
Gregorye
recounteth
in
the
same
book
of
the
bysshop
of
Fondes
whyche
was
named
Andrew
whyche
suffred
that
a
nonne
duellyd
in
hys
Exam
hous
.
not
hauynge
wylle
for
to
sinne
with
her
but
for
to
make
clene
hys
hous
:
The
deuyl
is
subtyll
.
whyche
on
a
tyme
putte
the
beaulte
of
her
in
the
herte
of
the
bysshop
/
in
suche
wyse
that
.
in
the
uyght
whan
he
was
in
hys
bedde
.
thought
to
synne
with
her
.
wythout
dooynge
the
dede
.
Soone
after
as
a
Jewe
wente
to
warde
Rome
.
It
happed
that
it
was
late
.
And
sawe
that
he
coude
not
fynde
lodgys
for
to
herberowe
hym selfe
:
But
entred
in
to
a
temple
of
Ydollys
that
was
callyd
the
temple
of
Appollyn
for
to
lye
there
alle
that
nyght
/
And
how
welle
that
he
was
not
crysten
.
he
doubted
the
euyll
place
.
And
was
a
ferde
of
the
deuyllys
/
and
blessyd
hym
wyth
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
.
It
happed
that
aboute
mydnyght
he
a
woke
.
and
sawe
a
grete
companye
of
deuylles
and
sawe
in
the
myddys
of
them
the
maistre
of
alle
the
deuyllys
.
that
satte
&
demaunded
of
eche
of
the
other
fro
whens
they
cam
.
and
what
they
hadde
doon
.
Thenne
a
deuyll
cam
forth
and
adowred
him
.
whom
the
maistre
demaunded
fro
whens
comest
thou
.
I
coin
sayd
he
from
a
prouynce
.
in
whiche
I
haue
moeued
many
bataylles
and
troubles
of
the
peple
by
whyche
is
moche
blood
shedde
and
am
come
hether
for
to
telle
it
to
the
/
And
in
how
longe
tyme
hast
thou
doon
thys
I
haue
doon
it
said
he
in
xxx
.
dayes
.
And
the
maister
sayd
to
hym
wherfore
hast
thou
doo
no
more
in
so
long
tyme
/
and
bad
the
other
deuyllys
to
bete
hym
well
:
The
second
cam
and
sayd
I
haue
be
in
the
see
where
I
haue
reysed
many
tempestes
and
thondre
by
whyche
I
haue
all
to
broken
many
shyppes
.
and
drowned
moche
people
.
¶
And
he
axed
in
how
longe
tyme
he
had
doon
it
And
he
ansuered
I
haue
doou
it
in
one
day
:
¶
and
anone
he
comaunded
he
shold
be
beten
:
by
cause
he
had
doo
nomore
in
so
longe
tyme
.
After
camen
another
and
sayd
I
haue
ben
in
an
hermytage
by
thespace
of
fourty
yere
.
¶
And
I
haue
doon
so
moche
that
I
made
a
monke
to
falle
in
the
synne
of
lecherye
.
but
it
hath
ben
with
grete
peine
/
And
whan
the
maister
of
the
deuyllys
herd
this
.
he
aroos
out
of
his
syege
.
and
kyssyd
hym
and
sette
hys
crowne
on
his
hede
and
made
hym
to
sytte
by
hym
sayeng
that
he
had
doon
a
grete
thyng
and
more
than
the
other
.
After
came
another
and
said
I
haue
put
in
grete
temptacion
Andre
we
the
bisshop
of
fondes
of
a
Nonne
.
and
said
that
the
day
to fore
he
had
brought
hym
so
ferre
that
in
blandysshyng
her
he
had
smeton
heer
vpon
the
back
behynde
.
Thenne
the
maistre
of
the
deuyllis
prayed
hym
that
he
shold
accomplysshe
that
he
had
begonne
.
to
th
ende
that
by
the
synne
of
the
same
bysshop
.
he
myght
haue
the
crowne
of
gretter
vyctory
e
than
alle
the
other
deuyllis
By
the
se.
ij
.
examples
may
one
see
how
the
deuyl
hath
grete
ioie
whan
he
may
brynge
a
persone
of
the
chyrche
in
to
synne
.
After
the
maister
of
the
deuyllys
commanded
that
they
shold
see
and
knowe
who
was
he
that
laye
in
the
temple
.
whan
the
deuyllys
sa
we
thys
iewe
Whyche
was
marked
with
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
:
they
fledde
away
alle
cryeng
.
Acursed
be
he
it
is
a
vessel
alle
wyde
&
foul
.
But
he
is
marked
with
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
.
And
so
fledde
they
alle
and
called
hym
a
vessell
wyde
by
cause
he
was
not
baptised
:
whan
it
was
day
the
iewe
a●●●s
and
wente
to
the
bysshop
.
and
recounted
to
hym
alle
the
fayte
And
werke
wherof
he
was
abasshed
.
And
anon
made
wyde
fro
hys
hows
the
Nonne
:
And
alle
the
wymen
that
were
aboute
And
after
baptysed
the
Jewe
.
Now
thou
hast
herd
that
the
holy
crosse
hath
grete
vertue
vpon
crysten
men
and
other
/
Saint
lowys
had
a
custome
that
whan
he
passyd
ouer
a
brydge
he
sayd
alway
.
¶
Surrexit
dominus
de
sepulcro
.
qui
pro
nobis
pependit
in
ligno
¶
And
sayd
yf
the
brydge
be
of
stone
I
doubte
not
for
to
passe
ouer
.
¶
For
the
sepulcre
of
our
lord
was
of
stone
in
whiche
he
was
buryed
/
And
yf
the
brydge
be
of
tree
or
wode
I
fere
not
to
passe
it
.
For
the
coosse
on
whiche
our
lord
.
Thesu
crist
was
crucyfyed
▪
was
of
treè
.
And
thus
he
passed
all
wey
surely
.
¶
Of
iij
pacyences
in
tribulacyon
Capytulo
viij
OF
alle
the
tribulacyons
and
vylonnyes
that
thou
suffrest
ne
will
thou
ne
saye
ne
doo
thou
ony
harme
to
other
therfore
how
be
it
that
thou
haue
sorow
therof
yet
alle
way
rendre
and
yeue
thankynges
to
god
▪
Thys
fyrst
pacyence
is
good
/
but
yf
thou
blysse
god
and
yeue
to
hym
thankynges
as
dyde
Job
/
that
is
the
second
pacyence
and
is
better
than
that
other
.
And
yf
thou
haue
ioye
and
be
glad
of
tribulacyon
as
it
is
sayd
of
th
appostoles
/
that
is
the
thyrde
pacyence
/
and
that
Exam
is
beste
.
¶
Example
.
It
is
sayd
that
whan
Seneke
the
wyse
phylosopher
shold
be
maryed
he
took
the
werst
woman
&
the
most
shrew
that
coude
be
founde
.
It
happed
on
a
tyme
that
he
cam
from
withoute
home
And
hys
wyf
was
aboue
in
a
solyer
.
and
he
was
vnthernethe
.
she
began
to
chyde
and
despre
yse
hym
and
saye
to
hym
many
vylonnyes
.
but
he
neuer
ansuerd
ony
word
.
whan
she
saw
that
he
spack
not
agayn
to
hyr
she
poured
apotful
of
foul
water
on
hys
hede
.
but
for
alle
that
he
was
not
angry
but
sayd
.
I
wyst
wel
that
after
thys
thonder
shold
sone
come
rayne
:
&
when
hys
frendes
axed
hym
wherfor
he
had
taken
so
euyll
a
wyf
whan
that
he
well
knewe
her
shrewdnes
tofore
.
The
cause
is
said
he
.
that
I
myght
lerne
in
my
hows
how
I
ought
to
be
pacyent
to
other
people
.
I
wold
it
pleased
to
our
lord
god
that
alle
the
men
that
be
maryed
shold
be
so
pacyent
toward
theyr
wyues
Ther
be
somme
that
wene
to
be
wel
pacyent
and
strong
ayenst
the
fyre
of
tribulacion
.
by
cause
that
ther
is
none
that
doo
ne
saye
ayenst
theyr
wil
but
somtyme
whan
they
be
a
lytyl
touched
wyth
the
lyme
of
reprehencion
or
of
correccion
/
or
that
they
repr●ned
and
corrected
of
theyr
defanltes
:
or
that
ony
doo
or
saye
thynge
that
displeaseth
them
/
anon
they
shewe
what
they
be
in
the
herte
by
yr
theyr
proud
and
hard
ansueres
.
The
clocke
of
the
monestawythout
sownyng
is
moche
styll
as
longe
as
it
is
not
touched
But
asson●
as
one
draweth
the
corde
or
ellis
it
be
tonched
ony
thyng
.
anone
it
cryeth
so
lowde
that
it
is
herd
ouer
alle
the
toun
/
Ryght
in
lyke
wyse
doon
many
/
For
whan
they
be
touched
in
word
or
in
dede
ayenst
theyr
wyll
.
anone
they
crye
and
make
noyse
and
be
inpacy●nt
.
¶
Example
a
relygious
man
demaunded
of
hys
abbot
and
sayd
Fayre
fader
telle
me
what
I
may
doo
that
I
may
be
saued
/
Thabbot
ansuerd
to
hym
/
yt
thou
may
endure
pacyently
all
that
is
doon
to
the
in
vylanyes
and
iniuryes
wythout
to
ansuere
ony
thyng
that
is
a
grete
vertue
aboue
alle
thynges
.
¶
Of
louyng
hys
neyghbour
Capitulo
ix
Thyrdely
charyte
sheweth
hym
in
louyng
his
neyghbour
of
whiche
the
gospel
saith
thou
shalt
loue
thy
neighbour
as
thy self
.
that
is
to
saye
thou
shalt
loue
and
desire
that
he
loue
god
and
serue
hym
:
and
that
he
doo
good
werkes
by
whyche
he
may
come
to
heuen
:
as
thou
woldest
thy self
Item
that
thou
sholdest
loue
hym
so
wel
.
that
thou
haue
sorow
and
pyte
of
hys
synne
/
and
of
hys
harme
and
that
thou
doo
soo
moche
for
hym
.
as
thou
woldest
that
he
dyde
for
the
by
reason
.
as
for
to
helpe
hym
and
socoure
hym
in
hys
nede
.
and
to
kepe
hys
good
name
and
fame
.
And
to
lette
hys
scathe
and
dommage
/
for
●accorde
hym
to
them
that
he
hath
discord
and
alle
other
thinges
that
thou
mayst
doo
for
hym
.
lyke
as
thou
woldest
he
shold
doo
for
the.
And
by
thy
neghbour
is
vndersten
den
alle
manere
of
people
nygh●
and
ferre
/
Frendes
and
also
enemyes
:
and
alle
other
people
¶
Of
louynge
his
enemyes
Capytulo
C
j
x
THow
onghtest
to
loue
thyn
enemyes
.
and
to
wylle
&
desire
.
theyr
amendement
and
theyr
saluacion
for
the
loue
of
god
.
whiche
thynge
he
wylle
and
comandeth
.
¶
Item
for
the
grete
wele
and
prouffyt
that
they
doo
.
For
yf
thou
be
pacyent
.
they
shall
forge
for
the
a
crowne
in
paradys
.
and
sauacion
for
thy
soule
:
but
they
dampne
them self
ouer
hardly
/
¶
Example
.
we
rede
in
the
lyf
of
faders
of
an
holy
hermyte
whiche
at
hys
deth
kyssed
right
swetely
the
hondes
of
a
theef
and
sayd
/
¶
These
here
ben
the
hondes
that
shal
bere
me
to
paradys
/
Exam
For
they
haue
ofte
robbed
me
and
haue
takyn
a
way
my
lytyl
substance
ayenst
my
wylle
:
and
whan
I
wold
haue
res●owed
them
they
bete
me
cruelly
and
I
haue
all
suffred
it
paciently
/
And
therfore
they
be
the
cause
to
brynge
my
soule
to
heuen
:
¶
Item
thow
oughtest
to
pardone
and
forgyue
thyn
enemyes
wyth
herte
and
mouth
.
alle
wrath
and
maletalent
yf
they
requyre
the.
For
whan
thou
sayest
thy
pater
noster
.
dimitte
nobis
debita
nostra
.
sicut
et
nos
dimittimus
debito●●bus
nostris
Thou
prayest
to
god
that
he
pardone
thy
trespaces
.
as
thou
pardonest
them
that
trespace
to
the.
he
promytt●h
that
he
shalle
forgyue
the
yf
thou
be
confessed
and
repentaunt
.
but
thy
catayl
ne
thy
domage
thou
shalt
not
forgyue
but
yf
it
playse
the
but
thou
mayst
leueye
:
&
reyse
it
yf
it
be
raysonable
wythout
to
hurte
thy
conscyence
▪
wel
is
trouthe
that
thou
hast
agaynst
them
a
desplaysaunce
/
and
art
angry
with
them
for
the
harme
that
they
haue
doon
to
the.
but
thou
shalt
not
wylle
that
ony
harme
come
to
them
for
to
auenge
the.
¶
But
yf
they
make
not
amendes
vnto
the.
and
thou
woldest
that
they
shold
be
constrained
by
ryght
and
reason
that
they
may
be
amended
and
chastysed
.
that
is
noo
synne
/
But
yf
thou
woldest
onely
harme
to
them
for
hate
for
to
auenge
the.
thenne
thou
synnest
dedely
Salamon
sayth
in
hys
prouerbes
▪
take
noo
hede
therto
.
for
it
shall
not
plese
hym
.
and
it
shal
mowe
wel
thaunge
the
wrath
that
he
hath
in
hym
for
the
harmè
that
he
hath
doōn
or
sayd
and
hath
leyd
to
the.
¶
Example
.
Saint
gregorie
recounteth
in
hys
dyalogue
.
that
by
cause
seynt
beuet
was
renomed
of
holy
Exam
lyf
.
A
preest
whyche
was
named
florentyn
by
cause
that
he
had
not
so
good
renommee
as
he
by
cause
he
dyde
the
werkes
For
enuye
he
sente
to
him
on
a
tyme
a
loof
of
breed
enpoysonned
in
manere
of
a
present
&
of
loue
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
be
enposonned
and
so
deye
Seynt
benet
toke
the
loof
and
thanked
hym
.
There
was
a
rauen
whyche
was
nyhe
by
and
was
accustomed
to
come
to
hym
atte
hour
of
dyner
.
to
whom
seynt
be
nette
gaf
gladly
mete
vnto
.
And
whan
he
came
seynt
benette
sayd
to
hym
.
In
the
name
of
god
I
comande
the
that
thou
bere
thys
loof
of
brede
in
to
suche
a
place
that
neuer
man
fynde
it
/
The
rauen
toke
it
and
bere
it
away
.
And
in
thespace
of
iij
houres
after
he
retorned
to
seint
benet
and
he
gaaf
to
hym
mete
as
he
was
accustomed
.
whan
the
preste
sawe
that
he
myght
not
put
him
to
deth
.
he
thought
atte
leste
that
he
wold
make
him
to
synne
and
so
to
deye
spyrituelly
and
also
the
soules
of
hys
dyscyples
by
synne
.
For
in
a
gardyn
nyhe
by
the
halle
of
seynt
benet
.
Thys
preest
florentyn
brought
vij
fayre
maydens
alle
naked
and
made
them
there
to
daunce
and
synge
long
to
th
ende
that
the
dyscyples
of
seynt
benet
myght
see
them
and
here
hem
and
so
to
be
tempted
.
whan
seynt
Benet
sawe
thys
he
doubted
of
his
dysaples
/
and
lefte
the
contre
to
th
ende
that
the
preeste
shold
haue
nomore
enuye
at
hym
/
But
god
forgate
not
th
enuye
of
the
preest
:
For
on
a
day
as
he
satte
in
the
sonne
vnder
hys
hous
.
god
made
the
hous
to
falle
on
hym
.
and
so
the
preste
was
dede
there
vnder
/
Saynt
Maure
whyche
was
discyple
of
seynt
benet
abode
styll
in
the
monastery
for
to
gouerne
the
religyous
monkes
.
and
sente
anon
to
seynt
benet
whyche
was
not
goon
passyng
.
v
/
mylle
ferre
fro
the
monasterye
that
he
shold
retorne
and
come
agayn
:
For
the
preste
that
poursiewed
hym
was
dede
.
whan
he
herd
thys
he
wepte
greuously
as
wel
for
the
loue
of
the
preest
.
as
for
his
discyple
whiche
was
glad
therof
.
and
made
hym
to
doo
grete
penaunce
by
cause
he
was
glad
of
the
deth
of
hys
enemye
.
The
loue
that
thou
owest
to
haue
to
thy
neihbour
is
clerely
shewed
by
the
werkes
of
mercy
of
whiche
ther
ben
two
maner
/
The
spirituell
and
corporell
.
These
ben
the
spirituell
.
to
counceylle
wel
other
for
theyr
saluacion
.
to
shewe
to
other
theyr
defaultes
and
mysdedes
for
theyr
amendement
:
to
conforte
the
sorouful
.
to
supporte
the
ygnorauntes
and
teche
them
:
&
to
praye
for
them
that
ben
in
synne
to
th
ende
that
god
wylle
amende
them
.
to
blesse
them
that
curse
the.
to
pardone
wrath
and
euyll
wyll
.
and
to
praye
for
thyn
enemyes
that
god
wyll
amende
them
.
For
herof
god
gaaf
vs
ensample
on
the
crosse
whan
he
prayed
for
them
that
crucyfied
hym
and
put
hym
to
deth
.
¶
Ot
the
werkes
of
mercy
corporelle
.
xi
THe
werkes
of
mercy
bodyly
ben
these
/
to
gyue
mete
&
drinke
to
the
poure
:
to
clothe
the
naked
.
to
herberowe
the
poure
herberughles
/
to
vysite
the
seke
:
to
supporte
and
ayde
the
old
aged
people
.
to
vysite
and
conforte
the
prysonners
:
to
burye
the
dede
bodyes
/
to
susteyne
and
deffende
the
poure
wydowes
.
and
the
poure
orphelins
/
and
alle
other
poure
people
for
Exam
the
loue
of
our
lord
.
¶
Example
.
It
is
sayd
that
a
synner
wente
in
to
the
hospytal
of
Jherusalem
for
to
serue
the
poure
people
.
And
it
happed
on
a
tyme
that
he
weesshe
the
fret
of
a
poure
man
whiche
was
a
mesele
/
and
ful
of
botches
of
whom
he
had
grete
abomynacion
.
but
anon
as
he
felt
hym self
so
abhorred
he
drank
a
grete
draght
of
that
fonl
water
of
whiche
he
had
wesshed
the
fret
of
the
poure
man
ayenst
hys
herte
.
but
he
felte
it
swete
aboue
alle
other
drinkes
and
oygnementes
/
this
was
a
grete
sygne
that
alle
hys
synnes
were
pardoned
and
forgyuen
by
that
werke
of
mercy
/
¶
Example
/
It
is
redde
of
a
noble
lady
that
loued
moche
the
lepres
and
meseles
/
And
dyde
to
them
moche
good
.
her
husbond
was
a
knyght
&
a
riche
man
.
and
abhorred
them
and
myght
not
see
them
:
It
happed
on
a
day
he
was
not
at
home
.
&
a
lepre
come
to
the
yate
of
thys
noble
lady
And
anon
she
demaunded
hym
yf
he
wold
ete
or
drynke
.
he
answered
that
he
myght
not
.
but
prayed
her
that
she
wold
brynge
hym
in
to
her
lordes
chambre
.
for
to
lye
and
reste
hym
on
hys
bedde
.
For
he
had
therof
grete
desire
.
er
he
ete
or
dranke
/
And
she
said
to
hym
.
thou
knowest
wel
how
my
lord
hath
grete
abhominacyon
of
mesellis
:
yf
he
fynde
the
in
his
bedde
/
it
myght
be
cause
that
bothe
thou
and
I
myght
be
slayn
For
he
shal
anon
retorne
and
com
home
.
And
the
lepre
began
then
ne
to
wepe
:
The
lady
myght
not
endure
to
see
hym
wepe
ne
waylle
.
but
anon
she
toke
hym
in
her
armes
and
bare
hym
in
to
the
chambre
and
leyd
hym
on
hyr
bedde
:
and
leyed
a
softe
pelowe
vnder
his
hede
.
and
couered
hym
wyth
her
beest
gownes
.
Anone
after
the
knyght
her
husband
came
fro
huntyng
alle
wery
and
sayd
to
the
lady
hys
wyf
:
Dame
open
the
dore
of
my
chambre
/
For
I
will
goo
lye
and
slepe
.
I
am
alle
hote
the
lady
whyche
was
sore
aferd
.
and
doubted
moche
the
deth
of
the
lepre
more
than
of
her self
dyde
not
anon
his
comaundement
.
wherfore
the
lord
in
grete
angre
brake
vp
the
dore
of
the
chambre
And
leyd
hym
doun
on
hys
bedde
.
and
whan
he
had
rested
a
whyle
:
he
cam
to
the
lady
and
said
to
her
Dame
ye
haue
now
wel
made
my
bedde
.
but
I
mernaylle
how
ye
haue
so
wel
arayed
it
:
and
where
ye
haue
goten
these
good
odours
and
swete
smelle
wherof
all
the
chambre
is
so
swete
&
smelleth
so
wel
in
trouthe
that
men
semeth
that
I
am
in
heuen
.
The
lady
whiche
thought
non
other
but
the
deth
entred
in
to
the
chambre
and
fonde
lyke
as
the
lord
sayd
to
her
.
And
she
fonde
not
the
lepre
/
and
she
thenne
by
cause
of
the
myracle
that
she
sawe
tolde
vnto
the
lord
alle
that
she
had
doon
.
And
whan
he
vnderstode
it
.
he
was
so
constrayned
/
that
he
whyche
was
to
fore
fiers
as
a
lyon
was
softe
&
dewnayre
as
a
lombe
/
and
by
the
merites
of
his
wyf
.
was
in
suche
wyse
conuerted
to
our
lord
that
for
thenne
forthon
he
ledde
suche
a
lyf
lyke
as
his
wyf
dyde
.
This
is
that
saynt
poul
saith
:
that
the
euyl
husbond
shall
be
saued
by
the
good
wyf
/
that
is
to
saie
he
shall
be
conuerted
to
our
lord
.
The
werkes
of
mercy
gete
grace
and
deuocion
toward
our
lord
.
Seynt
Jherome
saith
.
that
he
remembreth
not
to
haue
seen
a
persone
to
deye
of
an
euyll
deth
.
that
gladly
dyde
the
werkes
of
merry
.
The
werkes
of
mercy
doon
many
good
thynges
to
them
that
doon
them
.
they
taken
a
way
the
synnes
of
hym
that
is
truly
confessyd
and
repentaunt
.
and
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
water
quenchyth
the
fyre
.
right
so
almesse
quenchyth
the
synne
of
a
persone
.
The
werkes
of
mercy
plese
so
moche
to
god
that
what
thyng
thou
doest
to
the
poure
for
the
loue
of
him
he
holdeth
it
doon
as
to
hym self
/
For
at
the
day
of
Jugement
he
shal
saie
to
the
good
that
haue
so
doon
them
.
Come
on
ye
that
blessyd
ben
of
god
my
fader
in
the
royaulme
of
heuen
whiche
is
appareylled
for
you
.
I
had
hungre
and
thurst
.
and
ye
gaaf
to
me
both
mete
and
drynke
I
haue
be
naked
and
ye
cladde
me
.
I
haue
ben
labouring
on
the
way
and
ye
haue
herberowed
me
.
I
haue
ben
seke
and
in
prison
/
and
ye
haue
vysyted
me
.
what
someuer
ye
haue
doon
to
the
leste
of
my
poure
people
.
ye
haue
doon
it
to
me
.
And
they
that
haue
not
accomplysshid
the
sayd
werkes
of
mercy
shal
be
sente
to
the
fyre
of
helle
lyke
as
the
gospell
saith
/
&
knowe
thou
that
alle
onely
for
to
refresshe
the
poure
man
.
to
ayde
or
to
conforte
hym
.
to
herberow
hym
.
or
to
gyue
to
hym●
lytyl
water
to
drynke
.
or
to
doo
ony
good
after
thy
faculte
for
the
loue
of
god
he
shal
yelde
to
the
grete
guerdon
and
reward
and
all
that
thou
doest
to
them
/
or
gladly
woldest
haue
doon
yf
thou
haddyst
myght
.
veryly
he
shall
holde
it
for
doon
:
and
shall
rewarde
it
to
the
¶
How
almesse
shold
be
doon
and
wherof
.
Capitulo
xij
MOche
people
lesen
theyr
almesse
and
other
good
thynges
that
they
doo
/
by
cause
they
doo
it
not
as
it
shold
be
doon
.
For
who
that
wyl
doo
almesse
to
th
ende
that
it
be
prouffytable
and
playsant
to
god
:
he
ought
to
byholde
thre
thinges
.
Firste
wherof
for
he
ought
to
doo
it
of
his
owen
.
and
not
of
other
mennes
/
and
of
that
he
hath
of
hys
propre
and
good
getyng
.
For
god
setteth
nothyng
of
euyll
yefte
.
Salamon
saith
that
who
that
doeth
almesse
or
sacrifice
to
god
of
the
catayll
or
goodes
of
the
poure
people
.
it
dooth
to
hym
also
grete
desplaysyre
.
as
he
that
shold
slee
thy
sone
afore
thyn
eyen
.
Also
a
man
ought
to
take
hede
to
whome
he
dooth
hys
almesse
.
thou
oughtest
not
to
byholde
the
synnar
that
is
to
saye
.
thou
shal
not
leue
to
gyue
to
them
by
cause
of
their
synnes
ne
euyl
deedes
/
but
for
pyte
&
compassyon
of
their
pourete
of
theyr
wyues
.
or
of
theyr
chyldren
for
to
kepe
themfro
sinne
/
Example
It
is
redde
of
a
Exam
religyous
man
whan
he
had
money
/
he
gaue
it
to
comyn
wymen
and
said
to
them
.
loo
here
is
thy
substance
for
thys
day
.
I
praye
the
that
thou
synne
not
this
day
.
Men
ought
gladly
to
gyue
to
the
poure
peple
shamfast
and
to
faderles
chyldren
/
to
poure
widowes
.
&
to
the
malades
and
seek
peple
whan
it
is
seen
to
be
nede
but
aboue
alle
other
.
one
is
bounden
to
his
fader
and
moder
whan
they
haue
nede
.
For
nature
enseygneth
it
&
god
comaundeth
it
.
The
maistres
naturiens
sayen
that
the
stork
nouresshith
his
fader
and
moder
whan
they
be
olde
&
may
not
helpe
them self
.
Thenne
nature
techeth
what
ought
to
be
doon
.
to
fader
and
moder
/
and
yf
one
doeth
not
he
doth
ayenst
nature
and
synneth
ayenst
the
comandement
of
god
And
therfore
it
is
wel
reason
that
he
or
she
meschieue
that
misdoeth
to
fader
and
moder
lyke
as
oftymes
happeth
.
Also
we
ought
do
it
gladly
&
with
good
herte
.
For
the
holy
scripture
sayth
to
vs
.
that
god
beholdeth
more
the
herte
than
the
honde
saint
gregorie
saith
that
god
beholdeth
not
what
grete
thyng
ys
gyuen
.
but
wyth
w.
hat
herte
.
And
more
playseth
to
god
an
halfpeny
that
a
poure
man
gyueth
gladly
:
than
yf
a
riche
man
gaaf
an
.
C.
〈◊〉
wyth
grutchyng
.
Somme
be
so
rude
and
hard
to
the
poure
people
Whan
they
ax●
them
almesse
/
that
an●n
they
an●u●●●
them
by
laynously
and
calle
them
truants
and
saye
to
them
many
reproches
to fore
they
gyue
to
them
ony
thyng
.
Whiche
is
a
grete
ton
fusion
:
That
almesse
plesith
not
to
god
:
Also
a
man
ought
to
gyue
anon
&
not
to
saye
goo
and
com
agayn
whan
a
man
may
doo
it
forthwyth
/
many
ryche
men
make
the
poure
people
to
crye
at
theyr
doo●es
and
longe
stand
/
whiche
haue
to
doo
in
other
places
.
and
so
ofte
praye
/
that
ouer
dere
they
selle
the
boū●e
that
they
doo
/
Seneqe
sayth
that
ther
is
nothyng
so
dere
bought
as
that
whiche
is
had
by
prayers
.
Almesse
whiche
is
made
by
a
mans
lyf
is
more
worth
than
that
whiche
is
doon
after
his
deth
.
lyke
as
the
lanterne
whiche
is
b●●n
to fore
lyghteth
the
conduit
of
the
way
better
and
more
surely
that
dooth
that
whiche
is
born
behynde
his
backe
.
Also
one
ought
to
gyue
after
hys
myght
and
puissaunce
.
For
the
scripture
saith
/
yf
thou
haue
moche
gyue
largely
.
and
yf
thou
haue
lytyll
gyue
gladly
/
Example
.
A
poure
man
demaunded
of
a
kyng
apeny
And
he
ansuerd
that
so
lytyl
a
yefte
apperteyned
not
to
a
k●g
The
kyng
Alysaundre
gaaf
to
one
his
seruaunt
a
Cyte
.
and
he
refused
it
by
cause
it
was
so
grete
a
thyng
.
Alysaunder
an
suered
.
I
haue
no
regarde
to
that
:
that
apperteyneth
the
to
take
but
I
beholde
what
thyng
apperteyneth
me
to
gyue
/
yf
thou
haue
nothyng
to
gyue
.
yet
haue
thou
good
wylle
For
Saynt
Gregorie
saith
that
the
hande
was
neuer
wyde
of
gyuynge
:
whan
the
cheste
of
the
herte
is
ful
of
good
wylle
/
whan
thou
shalt
doo
almesse
:
doo
not
for
preysyng
of
the
world
:
For
then
ne
thou
shalt
lese
it
.
Aand
despise
not
the
poure
.
as
somme
doo
that
daygne
not
to
see
nor
speke
to
them
.
but
yf
yt
be
rudely
&
desdaygn●usly
.
For
they
be
of
suche
matere
as
thou
art
.
And
thou
as
they
bee
▪
¶
Somme
ther
be
that
doo
moche
almesses
but
for
alle
that
they
leue
not
to
synne
.
and
suche
almesses
saue
them
not
.
¶
For
yf
they
deye
in
suche
estate
.
neuer
shal
theyr
almesses
kepe
them
too
dampnacyon
.
And
therfore
sayth
the
scripture
.
yf
thou
wylt
playse
god
.
haue
fyrst
pyte
of
thy
soule
/
¶
And
saynt
Austyn
sayth
who
that
wyll
to
al
messe
/
ought
to
begynne
at
hym self
the
fyrst
:
that
is
to
wete
.
to
sette
hym self
out
of
dedely
synne
.
Somme
may
demaunde
as
doon
the
relygyous
whiche
haue
not
wherof
to
doo
almesses
.
¶
For
they
haue
nothyng
propre
to
them self
.
¶
The
relygyous
of
the
cloystre
sayen
trouthe
.
For
they
may
nothynge
gyue
wythout
licence
of
hys
souerayn
/
the
whyche
ought
not
to
refuse
the
lycence
to
gyue
yf
it
be
demaunded
of
them
/
And
they
haue
wherof
to
gy●e
.
but
they
speke
not
of
one
point
whiche
is
in
theyr
rule
/
For
also
they
ought
not
to
take
ony
yeftes
without
lycence
They
that
haue
offyces
may
better
and
ought
to
gyue
that
whyche
remayneth
of
theyr
prebendes
▪
For
therfore
were
they
delyuered
to
them
of
good
folke
and
not
for
to
despende
them
in
euyl
vsages
.
as
●many
doo
wherof
they
shal
rendre
compte
atte
day
of
dome
:
¶
For
saynt
Ambrose
sayth
that
the
chyche
hath
gold
and
syluer
/
to
th
ende
that
it
be
gyuen
to
the
poure
for
the
loue
of
our
bord
Jhesu
criste
.
and
not
to
th
ende
that
it
be
euyll
spent
and
dystrybuted
/
I
saye
veryly
●●at
for
to
doo
almesse
none
may
excuse
hym
poure
ne
riche
ne
Relygyous
ne
other
¶
For
yf
he
haue
nothing
to
gyue
.
yet
yf
he
haue
good
wyll
it
suffiseth
:
¶
And
who
hath
not
wher
of
to
doo
bodely
almesses
.
late
hym
doo
almesses
spyrytuelles
¶
That
is
to
saye
:
praye
for
the
synnes
/
and
euyll
persones
wyth
good
herte
and
deuoutly
.
and
fede
them
by
deuoute
owy
son
and
good
admonicyou
wyth
good
example
.
And
of
goode
techynges
of
that
he
wel
knoweth
:
For
an
holy
man
sayth
that
it
is
a
greter
thing
to
fede
the
soule
whiche
shall
alle
way
endure
than
the
body
whyche
shal
deye
▪
¶
Example
.
Sayut
Johan
thamener
that
was
patriarke
of
alisaunder
recounteth
that
in
his
tyme
the
poure
folke
satte
on
a
day
Exam
in
the
sonue
and
spaken
of
them
that
gladly
▪
gaaf
to
them
for
goddes
sake
.
¶
●ygh●
vnto
the
cyte
wys
a
rich●
man
named
Peter
whyche
wold
nothyng
gyue
to
them
.
of
whom
they
moche
spake
of
One
of
them
said
to
the
other
.
what
wyl
ye
gyue
to
me
yf
I
may
doo
so
moche
▪
that
I
haue
almesse
of
hym
/
The
couenauntes
were
made
.
And
the
poure
went
forth
to
fore
hys
hous
and
demaunded
almesse
of
hym
.
The
mayster
cam
and
mette
hys
seruaunt
whyche
bare
two
loues
of
breede
for
to
gyue
to
dogges
or
to
hogges
:
he
toke
one
of
them
by
cause
he
coude
not
fynde
stones
redyly
and
by
grete
●ndignacyon
thre
we
at
the
poure
man
.
And
he
anone
toke
the
loof
and
went
to
hys
felawes
:
and
sayd
to
them
that
he
had
goten
it
by
grete
frendshyp
.
/
It
happed
that
two
dayes
after
Peter
was
seek
/
And
hym
thought
in
hys
slepyng
/
that
he
was
tofore
god
atte
dome
and
iugement
.
And
that
his
good
dedes
and
euyl
dedes
were
poysed
and
weyed
in
a
balaunce
whiche
he
had
doon
The
aungellis
whyche
were
on
that
other
parte
were
all
angry
/
by
cause
they
founde
noo
good
dedes
that
he
had
doon
for
to
put
in
to
that
other
parte
of
the
balaunce
/
We
haue
nothyng
said
an
angel
for
to
put
in
to
the
balance
but
a
lytyl
loof
▪
suche
as
he
gyueth
to
his
hogges
whiche
he
gaaf
in
grete
despyte
to
a
poure
man
.
it
is
not
ij
dayes
yet
agoon
.
whan
it
was
sette
in
the
balaunce
it
semeth
to
hym
that
it
was
egal
to
the
euyllis
.
Thenne
said
the
angel
to
him
goo
hens
/
and
doo
somme
other
good
that
thou
be
not
dampned
.
he
a
woke
and
tolde
his
vision
to
the
holy
patriarke
:
and
said
to
him
in
this
manere
:
Syre
a
lytyl
loof
of
bred
hath
thus
delyuered
me
too
the
handes
of
the
deuyllis
:
Shal
I
not
be
better
delyuered
yf
I
gyue
all
for
the
loue
of
god
It
happed
on
a
day
that
he
was
clad
wyth
a
fayre
robe
/
and
he
sawe
a
poure
man
alle
naked
whyche
demaunded
of
hym
a
goun
for
the
loue
of
god
.
And
anon
he
despoylled
hym self
.
And
gaaf
to
hym
that
goune
.
And
the
ponre
man
wente
and
solde
it
whan
Peter
knewe
it
he
was
moche
sory
and
began
to
wepe
/
¶
And
myght
not
etene
drynke
but
sayd
to
hym self
Alas
I
am
not
worthy
that
thys
poure
man
shold
ha●e
my
gowne
.
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
remembre
me
.
whan
he
was
a
slepe
he
sawe
our
lord
Jhesu
cryste
cladde
in
hys
gowne
and
sayd
to
hym
/
Peter
wherfore
wepest
thou
.
whan
he
had
sayd
the
cause
.
our
lord
sayd
to
him
knowest
thou
thys
robe
.
ye
syr
sayd
he
in
slepyng
/
I
haue
euery
day
cladde
me
wyth
all
sayd
our
lord
syth
that
thou
hast
gyuen
it
me
.
and
I
thanke
the
:
For
I
had
grete
colde
.
and
thou
hast
cladde
me
.
thenne
he
awoke
&
praysed
moche
thestate
of
the
poure
peple
sayeng
that
he
shold
s●o
doo
that
he
shold
be
as
poure
as
they
.
he
gaaf
alle
that
he
had
for
the
loue
of
god
.
exepte
/
x.
li.
whyche
he
reteyned
/
and
sayd
to
hys
secretary
.
lede
me
to
the
holy
cyte
&
there
selle
me
to
somme
cristen
man
for
to
be
his
seruaunt
.
and
gyue
the
money
that
thou
shal
receyue
for
me
for
goddis
sake
to
poure
folke
and
loo
take
here
▪
x
:
li
for
thy
labour
Thenne
the
seruannt
ledde
hys
maystre
in
to
the
cyte
cladde
wyth
right
foul
clothyng
:
and
sold
hym
to
an
argenter
for
xxx
pens
&
after
gaaf
them
for
the
loue
of
god
.
Peter
serued
hys
mayster
right
truly-and
dyde
all
the
labour
of
the
hous
.
in
suche
wyse
that
the
other
seruauntes
had
enuye
at
hym
.
and
desprised
hym
and
ofte
bete
hym
.
Our
lord
ofte
appered
to
hym
and
shewde
to
hym
hys
clothes
that
he
had
gyuen
to
poure
folke
for
the
loue
of
hym
and
reconforted
hym
.
Th
emperour
of
constantynoble
was
moche
sorouful
by
cause
he
had
loste
suche
a
man
as
peter
was
.
hyt
happed
that
hys
neyghbours
cam
in
to
Jherusalem
in
pylgrimage
.
&
were
lodged
in
his
maisters
hous
.
&
whan
they
satte
atte
diner
.
they
sawe
peter
that
semed
them
&
was
in
poure
estat
.
&
that
on
said
▪
to
that
other
.
see
how
this
seruaunt
ress●bleth
well
sire
peter
the
chaunger
:
vereli
sayd
that
other
it
is
he
.
I
shal
arise
&
take
hym
/
and
shall
lede
hym
hom
/
whan
peter
herd
this
he
fledde
&
went
his
way
.
the
portier
of
the
hous
was
deef
&
dombe
.
&
by
signes
opened
the
gate
.
peter
said
to
him
open
the
gate
to
me
.
&
anon
he
recouerd
hys
heering
&
spekyng
.
and
ansuerd
him
&
opened
to
him
the
gate
And
peter
went
out
&
fledde
.
&
the
portier
cam
in
to
the
hous
They
of
the
hous
were
moche
abasshed
they
sawe
hym
speke
:
and
here
:
And
told
to
them
that
he
that
made
dene
the
kychen
is
goon
and
fledde
a
way
,
but
certaynly
he
is
byloued
of
god
For
whan
he
bade
me
to
open
the
gate
/
Anon
yssued
out
of
his
mouth
a
flame
/
the
whyche
touched
my
tongue
and
myn
eeres
/
And
forth
with
I
recouered
speche
and
hering
:
And
anon
alle
they
wente
out
and
ranne
after
hym
.
but
they
coude
not
fynde
hym
.
Thenne
alle
they
of
the
hous
dyden
penaunce
by
cause
they
had
so
vylaynsly
entreated
hym
.
By
thys
example
mayst
thou
see
:
how
it
is
good
to
doo
almesse
.
The
holy
scrypture
sayth
that
lyke
as
water
quenchyth
fyre
.
so
almesse
quen
chyth
synne
of
hym
that
is
confessed
and
repentaunt
¶
Of
the
x
comaudemens
of
the
lawe
.
Capitulo
xiij
FOurthly
charite
sheweth
her
in
obseruyng
and
kepynge
the
ten
comaundementis
of
the
lawe
the
whiche
god
gaaf
to
moises
of
whom
saint
iohan
saith
.
The
charite
of
god
is
to
kepe
his
comaundementes
.
Also
sayth
the
holy
euangelyste
yf
thou
wylt
come
to
the
lyf
perdurable
that
is
the
Joye
of
heuen
kepe
the
comaundementes
of
god
The
fyrst
commaundement
of
god
is
this
.
Thou
shalt
not
bylene
ne
serue
neput●●thy
hope
ne
seyth
but
in
me
&
thou
shalt
haue
none
other
god
but
me
he
or
she
that
dooeth
the
contrarye
synneth
dedely
and
doth
ay
enst
the
fyrst
commaundement
.
Suche
ben
they
as
adoure
and
worshype
ydolles
:
and
make
theyr
god
of
creatures
.
And
not
of
the
creatour
&
maker
/
lyke
as
they
doo
that
ouermoch
loue
their
tresour
.
be
it
gold
or
syluer
or
ony
other
erthely
thing
and
sette
all
theyr
herte
and
their
hope
therin
.
that
they
forget
of
tymes
god
whiche
hath
alle
gyuen
it
to
them
¶
The
second
commandement
is
this
¶
Thou
shalt
not
take
the
name
of
god
in
vayn
that
is
to
saie
thou
shalt
not
swere
for
nought
&
not
without
good
cause
.
this
same
commandement
defendeth
god
our
lord
in
the
gospell
saieng
that
thou
shalt
not
swere
by
he
¶
uen
ne
by
erthe
ne
by
other
creature
But
for
good
cause
a
man
may
swere
without
synne
.
as
in
iugement
whan
trouthe
is
demanded
/
or
out
of
Jugement
in
other
good
cause
.
and
other
wyse
ought
noman
to
swere
.
For
who
that
swereth
without
reason
the
name
of
our
lord
he
periureth
hym self
fassly
wetyngely
.
and
synneth
dedely
:
that
is
to
saye
whan
one
swereth
knowyng
.
aduysedly
.
and
by
deliberacion
.
who
that
swereth
truly
to
his
wetyng
and
for
nought
nothyng
malicyously
/
but
lyghtly
and
without
blasphemye
he
synneth
venyally
:
and
custome
is
perillous
and
may
wel
torne
to
dedely
synne
.
But
he
that
swereth
horribly
by
our
lord
.
by
malyce
and
by
angre
synneth
dedely
and
may
not
excuse
hym
.
An
oth
made
ayenst
the
charyte
of
god
and
ayenst
the
soule
of
hym
that
swereth
ayenste
another
ought
not
to
be
holden
ne
kept
,
&
of
suche
an
othe
one
ought
moche
to
repente
and
to
confesse
the
said
synne
to
a
man
of
the
chyrche
that
is
wyse
and
vnderstondyng
.
The
third
comaundement
of
god
is
this
.
Thou
shalt
halowe
and
kepe
the
sonday
and
the
festes
comaunded
And
thou
shalt
not
werke
ne
doo
werke
/
and
thou
shalt
kepe
the
fro
synne
to
thy
power
.
yf
ony
thyng
.
be
in
perill
to
be
destwied
or
lost
not
for
to
abyde
tyl
on
the
morn
.
as
a
beest
to
lye
in
a
dyche
or
suche
thyngis
lyke
.
holy
chyrche
suffreth
.
that
on
the
holy
day
be
had
remedye
And
on
the
sayd
day
of
feste
a
man
ought
to
entende
but
on
the
werkes
of
mercy
and
of
our
lord
.
And
therfore
a
man
ought
to
cesse
&
leue
other
werkes
contrarie
.
especyally
for
to
synne
dedely
.
&
of
dauncyng
.
but
yf
it
be
for
some
good
cause
/
for
many
euyllis
&
synnes
comen
therof
.
as
for
to
be
proud
:
&
to
coueyte
faire
robes
&
riche
Jewellis
.
enuye
.
lecherie
/
slouthe
to
doo
well
engendren
therof
.
For
it
is
tyme
loste
/
and
ther
be
many
disportes
of
the
world
whiche
ben
contrarie
to
the
soule
/
saynt
austyn
saith
that
it
were
better
to
laboure
th
erthe
on
the
sonday
than
to
daunce
or
playe
vnlefull
games
.
and
yet
to
soo
doo
is
dedely
synne
.
¶
Example
.
It
is
redde
of
a
woman
that
Exam
haunted
the
daunces
/
and
moche
gladly
daunced
and
songe
.
&
arrayed
her self
merueyllously
of
ryche
and
fayre
clothing
and
Jewellys
.
It
happed
that
thenes
wold
fayn
haue
robbed
her
of
her
robes
and
Joyaulx
.
But
the
deuyl
keyte
her
alway
.
&
sayd
to
the
theues
:
how
be
ye
so
hardy
to
wylle
to
robbe
her
for
ye
knowe
wel
she
is
proprely
oures
.
For
she
hath
made
vs
to
wynne
moo
wymen
.
than
haue
doon
alle
oure
other
famyllye
For
she
admonesteth
and
encorageth
alle
other
to
daunce
and
to
doo
many
synnes
by
her
vestymentes
.
And
in
thus
sayeng
the
deuyl
bete
strongly
the
thenes
.
¶
Example
.
Seynt
grego
Exam
rye
recounteth
in
his
dyalogue
that
our
lady
appered
in
a
vys●
on
to
a
mayde
that
had
sette
her
loue
in
a
relygyous
man
named
probas
.
whiche
tolde
it
hym
of
his
suster
/
to
whome
our
lady
shewed
a
companye
of
ryght
fayre
virgynes
lyke
to
her
eage
.
clad
in
white
And
in
ryght
shynyng
habytes
.
whan
she
saw
them
she
had
moche
grete
desire
to
be
Joyned
and
put
in
theyr
companye
:
but
she
durst
not
Thenne
the
glorious
virgyne
marye
moder
of
mercy
demaunded
her
yf
she
wold
be
wyth
the
vyrgynes
that
she
sawe
come
wyth
her
.
and
she
sayd
ye
our
swete
lady
demaunded
her
yf
she
myght
kepe
her
fro
dauncyng
.
and
she
ansuerd
ye
.
Thenne
she
comaunded
that
she
shold
kepe
her
fro
than
forthon
/
fro
light
thynges
/
fro
alle
playes
&
yong
voluptuosytees
.
&
af
the.
xxx
.
day
after
she
sholde
com
wyth
the
virgines
that
she
had
seen
.
whan
the
vision
was
departed
the
maide
chaunged
her
condicions
so
wel
that
there
were
neyther
disporte
ne
lawhinges
ne
companie
of
other
maidens
that
she
wold
ensiewe
ne
folowe
.
For
whiche
cause
her
fader
&
moder
were
strongly
admerueilled
&
demaunded
her
wherfore
she
was
so
styll
/
&
she
recounted
to
them
her
aduysyon
that
she
hade
seen
.
whiche
was
trewe
.
For
on
the
tenthe
day
a
feuer
or
sekenes
toke
her
.
And
on
the
:
xxx
:
day
th
ende
of
her
lyf
approched
¶
And
thenne
she
sawe
the
sayde
moder
of
mercy
come
to
her
with
the
virgines
afore
sayde
whyche
called
her
swetely
.
And
she
ansuered
.
lady
loo
I
come
.
and
wyth
that
wys
she
rendred
her
spyryte
.
And
her
soule
went
wyth
the
virgines
in
to
Joye
perdurable
.
¶
Now
hast
thou
herde
how
the
danncyng
desplaised
to
our
lord
:
and
plaised
moche
to
the
deuyl
.
Thou
maist
wel
dannce
whan
thou
maryest
ony
of
thy
chyldren
or
of
the
neces
of
thy
parentes
.
and
the
day
of
thy
feste
for
gladnesse
&
for
Joye
.
but
in
no
wyse
doo
it
not
for
Jolinesse
ne
for
synne
:
¶
Example
.
The
holy
scrypture
saith
that
the
kyng
dauyd
Exam
whan
he
dyde
do
bringe
the
arke
of
the
olde
testament
fro
one
place
to
another
/
made
grete
Joye
and
daunced
wyth
dyuerse
Instrumentes
of
musyke
.
Ye
yonge
maydens
.
yf
it
behoueth
you
to
goo
to
ony
feste
or
playe
:
put
your self
alleway
in
goode
companye
And
kepe
you
welle
fro
gooing
in
ony
place
secrete
for
oftymes
there
cometh
therof
ouer
moche
euyll
¶
For
Amon
whyche
was
sone
of
kynge
Dauyd
whan
he
had
hys
suster
named
Thamar
.
secretly
in
hys
Chambre
he
defoylled
her
by
force
:
The
whyche
thyng
he
had
not
doon
yf
they
had
ben
in
goode
companye
.
thus
sayth
the
holy
scripture
.
Item
holy
chirche
ordeyneth
and
comaundeth
.
that
euery
cristen
creature
here
masse
alle
hole
vnto
the
benediccion
of
the
preest
on
the
sondayes
.
for
the
beste
of
the
masse
is
fro
the
preface
vnto
the
ende
of
the
masse
.
all
they
that
doo
not
soo
yf
they
haue
not
grete
empesshement
and
lettyng
.
synne
moche
gryuously
.
and
lese
the
prouffyt
of
the
masse
/
whyche
is
so
grete
that
it
may
not
be
comprysed
.
¶
The
fourth
commaundement
of
our
lord
is
this
:
thou
shalt
honoure
&
worship
thy
fader
&
moder
and
thou
shalt
lyue
the
more
longe
on
the
erthe
.
¶
This
commaundement
admonesteth
vs
that
we
kepe
vs
fro
angring
of
fader
and
of
moder
to
our
wytyng
and
of
alle
hys
power
for
who
that
dooth
the
contrarye
.
and
helpeth
them
not
of
hys
power
in
their
necessite
:
he
sinneth
dedely
.
&
falleth
in
meschief
in
this
world
or
in
that
other
:
and
this
comandement
was
suche
in
the
old
lawe
that
who
someuer
cursed
fader
or
moder
he
was
pnt
to
deth
/
Example
.
the
holy
scripture
saith
that
absalon
Exam
sone
of
the
kyng
dauyd
made
grete
werre
ayenst
his
fader
.
It
happed
on
a
day
that
the
bataylle
shold
assemble
for
to
fyghte
And
whan
they
assembled
Absalon
whyche
fledde
vpon
a
mule
passed
vnder
a
tree
bare
heded
.
And
he
had
moche
heer
on
his
hede
:
whiche
toke
the
braunche
of
a
tree
.
and
the
mule
ranne
strongly
▪
and
he
abode
hangyng
by
his
heer
on
a
braunche
of
the
tree
And
he
that
ranne
after
hym
slew●
hym
with
a
spere
.
And
wold
not
that
ony
harme
shold
be
doon
to
the
other
of
hys
partye
/
by
cause
he
poursiewed
his
fader
.
¶
Another
Example
.
It
is
redde
that
in
normandye
there
was
a
man
Exam
and
a
woman
moche
ryche
&
hadde
but
one
sone
.
whom
they
maryed
rychely
.
and
gaaf
to
hym
the
most
parte
of
theyr
hauoyr
and
good
in
hope
whan
they
were
olde
he
shold
gouerne
them
.
The
sone
was
moche
ryche
for
he
kepte
hys
good
and
despended
it
not
.
It
happed
that
the
fader
and
moder
were
olde
and
myght
not
wynne
ony
thyng
.
The
fader
sayd
to
hys
sone
/
I
and
thy
moder
ben
olde
.
and
may
not
lyue
longe
.
wherfore
we
wyl
come
and
duelle
with
the.
&
take
that
we
haue
.
The
sone
to
whom
it
playsed
nothyng
sayd
to
hym
.
I
shal
speke
to
my
wyf
therof
/
and
yf
she
wyll
I
wyll
well
/
he
spak
therof
to
hys
wyf
▪
the
whyche
ansuered
to
hym
that
she
had
no
nede
of
a
maystre
ne
maistresse
.
&
after
he
cam
&
tolde
it
to
his
fader
.
the
whyche
went
fro
hym
moche
sorouful
and
angry
▪
hyt
happed
that
the
day
of
a
grete
feste
the
fader
had
nothyng
arayed
ne
made
redy
to
ete
.
and
came
to
hys
sone
whiche
was
thenne
at
hys
table
and
had
ynoweredy
for
his
dyner
▪
but
whan
he
herd
hys
fader
come
he
made
hyde
all
the
mete
▪
hys
fader
come
to
hym
and
sayde
.
Fayre
sone
I
&
thy
moder
haue
nothyng
now
to
ete
.
wherfore
gyue
to
vs
som
what
.
The
sone
ansuered
we
haue
nothyng
but
br●de
and
win
yf
it
please
you
b●●k
your
fast
with
vs
.
The
fader
whiche
knewe
wel
the
contrarie
retorned
sore
wepyng
.
and
anone
as
he
was
out
of
the
hous
.
the
sone
dyde
do
bringe
forth
the
mete
But
whan
he
supposed
to
haue
take
the
beste
piece
●here
came
a
grete
tode
●
toke
hym
by
the
ouer
lyppe
in
suche
wyse
that
whan
he
wold
ete
.
he
muste
with
that
one
hand
lyste
vp
the
●●de
.
and
wyth
that
other
he
put
the
mete
in
hys
mouth
.
he
sente
for
a
preste
for
to
confesse
hym
/
and
recounted
to
hym
all
the
fayt
.
The
preste
bad
hym
that
he
shold
goo
to
the
archibysshop
whiche
was
a
wyse
man
.
and
dyscret
for
to
gyue
to
hym
penaunce
competent
.
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
gyue
example
to
other
/
Thar
chebysshop
sayd
to
hym
that
he
muste
goo
to
the
pope
:
and
that
he
shold
in
alle
places
that
he
came
shewe
hys
maladye
and
telle
the
cause
.
he
cam
to
the
pope
and
told
hym
all
the
tronthe
whiche
helde
it
doon
for
a
myracle
▪
and
assoylled
hym
and
bad
hym
to
crie
mercy
to
hys
fader
and
moder
.
And
fro
than
forthon
he
shold
doo
to
them
the
beste
that
he
wyght
.
And
thus
thenne
the
tode
teparted
fro
hym
.
and
he
amended
hym
.
Item
they
do●
ayenst
comaundement
that
bere
no●
worshyp
ne
honour
to
theyr
fader
and
moder
ghostly
:
&
to
theyr
prelates
.
curates
.
and
maystres
of
our
lord
.
and
they
that
selle
or
bye
in
the
chyrche
.
or
doon
other
thyng
that
ought
to
be
doon
.
For
it
is
the
hons
ofgod
in
the
whiche
ought
noo
thyng
to
be
doon
but
to
seme
god
hys
moder
and
hys
sayntes
.
¶
Example
.
It
is
redde
that
constantyn
Exam
the
grete
emperour
of
rome
sayd
thus
yf
I
sawe
a
preste
synne
/
I
shold
couere
hym
wyth
my
mantel
to
th
ende
that
noo
persone
shold
see
hym
ne
knowe
hys
synne
for
the
sklandre
and
deshonour
that
myght
happen
thys
is
ayenst
them
that
dyscoueren
the
synnes
of
theyr
faders
goostly
.
as
dyd
the
euyl
Cayn
whyche
dyscouered
hys
fader
Noe
for
to
see
his
membres
naturel
.
For
whyche
ca●se
hys
fader
made
hym
bonde
to
hys
bretheren
and
alle
hys
lygne
.
&
●oo
thenne
forthon
began
seruytude
/
as
witnesseth
scripture
:
The
fyfeth
comaundement
is
.
Thou
shalt
do●
noon
homycyde
/
that
is
to
saye
.
thoushaltsle
noman
.
In
thys
commandemaunt
god
defended
the
that
thou
shalt
●lé
no
man
but
by
good
J●styce
.
&
that
thou
t●re
non
hate
ne
ran●our
to
ony
other
.
For
the
scripture
sayth
he
that
hateth
his
brother
is
an
homycyde
:
Also
that
thou
desyre
not
the
deth
of
an
other
for
ony
euyll
cause
.
hate
longe
kepte
.
holden
and
roted
in
the
herte
is
dedely
synne
:
But
Jre
and
indygnacion
that
passeth
lyghtly
without
parfyght
will
and
consenting
to
greue
another
is
not
dedely
synne
.
Ayenst
thys
commanndement
synneth
he
that
doeth
or
purchaseth
shame
or
dommage
to
ony
other
wrongfully
.
or
is
in
connseyll
or
helpyng
to
hurte
and
grieue
another
for
to
aduenge
hym
.
¶
They
that
in
necessite
socoure
not
the
poure
/
after
theyr
power
shall
be
pugnisshed
as
homycydes
.
yf
by
theyr
defaulte
they
deye
.
And
he
that
doeth
hys
flesshly
synne
.
or
ony
other
euyl
werke
that
a
man
may
not
engendre
ne
woman
conceyue
/
ought
to
haue
penaunce
as
an
homycyde
/
thys
saith
the
lawe
Canon
.
¶
The.
vj
commaundement
is
this
Thou
shalt
do●
noo
fornycacyon
.
In
thys
commaundementis
deffended
alle
the
synne
of
lecherie
and
alle
flesshly
companye
of
wymen
.
but
yf
it
be
thy
wedded
wyf
.
And
a
man
ought
to
kepe
hym
well
fro
goyng
to
C●myn
wymmen
.
For
it
is
right
grete
synne
by
cause
they
spare
none
fader
ne
brother
.
Cosyn
ne
kynnesman
:
Saynt
poule
sayth
that
we
be
not
only
to
our self
but
to
god
that
hath
redemed
vs
.
¶
Item
he
saith
that
we
be
the
temple
of
the
holy
ghoost
.
●f
thou
haue
abandonned
thy
body
to
the
synne
of
lecherye
.
thou
hast
taken
it
away
fro
Jhesu
criste
▪
and
hast
put
it
in
t
handes
of
the
●ende
of
helle
.
and
thou
hast
made
of
the
monastery
of
the
holy
ghoost
.
the
sygnagoge
of
the
deuyl
.
And
therfore
admonesteth
saynt
poul
them
that
wyl
not
absteyne
them
fro
synne
.
that
they
marye
them
.
For
it
is
better
for
them
to
be
maryed
:
than
to
be
brent
/
¶
Example
/
It
is
said
that
in
vitis
patrum
Exam
it
is
wreton
that
a
pylgrym
deyde
in
a
wode
:
Our
lorde
sente
an
angel
vnto
an
hermite
for
to
burye
hym
/
And
as
th●y
b●ried
hym
●hermyte
stopped
his
nosethrylles
for
the
st●nche
of
the
body
.
And
there
cam
rydyng
a
yong
man
whyche
was
moche
lecherous
whyche
passed
by
them
vpon
a
fayre
hors
sadled
wyth
a
sadle
gylt
.
And
thys
yong
man
had
on
hys
heed
a
chapellet
of
flowres
.
And
anon
the
angel
stopped
hys
nose
for
the
comyng
of
the
yong
man
/
&
nothyng
for
the
stenche
of
the
dede
corps
/
And
the
hermyte
demaunded
of
the
angel
why
he
abhorred
more
the
yong
man
than
the
dede
body
.
The
angel
an●●ered
to
hym
that
the
flessh
of
euery
good
&
holy
man
shal
be
of
ryght
good
odour
to
fore
god
:
but
men
fele
it
not
by
cause
they
be
nourrisshed
in
sinne
whiche
is
swete
to
them
and
wel
smellyng
▪
but
the
synne
of
a
lecherous
man
is
moche
foule
and
horrible
in
the
sight
of
god
and
of
hys
angellys
/
The
vij
commandement
is
thys
.
Thou
shal
do●
no
thefte
/
This
commandement
defendeth
vs
to
take
ouy
other
thynge
what
someuer
it
〈◊〉
and
to
reteyne
it
wihout
rayson
.
In
this
commandement
is
defended
rapyne
.
vsure
/
and.
deceyte
.
as
for
to
d●●eyue
another
for
to
haue
hys
.
and
for
to
bye
thyng
that
is
wel
knowen
/
is
euyl
taken
:
He
that
doeth
ayenst
this
commandement
is
bounden
to
rendre
and
restore
agayn
alle
that
he
hath
euyl
goten
/
yf
he
wote
to
whom
.
&
yf
he
wote
not
to
whom
he
oughte
to
do●
after
the
counseyll
of
holy
chyrche
.
For
otherwise
he
shold
Exam
synne
dedely
¶
Example
.
We
rede
of
a
preste
whiche
had
a
paresshen
that
was
an
vsurier
.
And
neuer
wold
restore
ony
thyng
at
his
deth
/
And
whan
he
whas
dede
the
preste
wolde
not
bnrye
hym
in
the
chyrche
yerd
by
cause
that
after
the
counseyl
of
old
saintes
and
deuoute
men
.
the
vsuriers
ought
not
to
be
leyed
in
place
halowed
yf
they
yelded
not
agayn
to
theyr
power
alle
that
they
had
receyued
by
vsure
of
other
men
but
as
●saye
the
prophete
saith
in
hys
xiiij
chapytre
/
the
vsurer
ought
to
haue
sepulture
of
an
asse
/
and
ought
not
to
be
put
ne
buryed
emong
them
whos
bodyes
re●●eth
in
pease
/
It
happed
that
the
frendes
of
this
vsurer
debated
strongly
ayenst
thys
preeste
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
be
buryed
in
the
chyrcheyerd
/
whauthe
preste
saw
that
he
myght
not
endure
for
them
he
made
his
praer
to
our
lord
/
and
after
said
to
them
.
leie
the
dede
bodi
vpon
an
asse
.
and
late
vs
see
the
wyll
of
god
.
And
to
what
place
he
shal
bere
it
.
be
it
in
the
chyrche
or
in
the
chyrcheyerd
I
shal
burie
hit
Thenne
whan
they
had
leyd
the
dede
body
on
the
asse
/
he
went
neither
to
the
chyrche
ne
to
the
chyrcheyerd
.
but
went
and
bare
the
body
strayt
to
the
galowes
where
as
the
theuys
hange
.
and
there
lete
it
falle
doun
and
after
retorned
home
at
whyche
place
it
was
buryed
:
¶
The
viij
commandemaunt
is
thys
.
Thou
shalt
bere
no
fals
wytnes
/
In
thys
comandement
isdefended
to
the
that
thou
saye
nothyng
ayenst
trouthe
for
to
hurte
ony
other
ne
for
to
lye
.
For
in
a
good
persone
ought
nothyng
to
be
but
trouthe
:
who
that
periureth
hym self
wetyngly
he
breketh
the
comandement
and
synneth
dedely
.
Thenne
who
for
to
delyuer
a
man
fro
deth
forswereth
hym self
he
synneth
dedely
For
to
doo
ony
good
dede
what
someuer
it
be
non
ought
to
pariure
hym self
.
and
in
lyke
wyse
none
ought
to
synne
dedely
.
The
is
comaundement
is
this
▪
Thou
shalt
not
desire
ne
coueyte
auother
mans
wyf
That
is
to
saye
▪
thou
oughtest
not
to
hane
aduisement
ne
desire
to
haue
flessly
companie
with
anosher
mans
wyf
/
For
the
consent
withont
more
shold
be
dedely
ynne
after
the
sentence
of
the
gospel
whiche
saith
/
who
seeth
a
woman
and
coueyteth
her
in
hys
herte
.
he
thenne
synneth
hym self
.
that
is
to
saie
whan
the
consentemeut
is
expressed
and
for
thought
.
For
the
wyll
parfait
:
is
reputed
for
the
dede
▪
and
yf
this
thought
come
to
the.
and
thou
consentest
not
ne
delytest
therin
but
it
dysplaiseth
the
that
is
not
dedely
synne
.
but
thou
mayste
haue
therby
meryte
.
by
cause
thou
ouercomest
the
deuyl
whiche
entiseth
the.
the
difference
of
this
comandement
fro
the
vj
a
foresaid
is
that
the
vj
comandement
defendeth
the
dede
without
forth
/
&
this
defendeth
the
consentig
withinforth
.
yf
the
seme
that
thou
doo
ony
sinne
in
slepyng
yf
to
fore
thy
sleping
or
after
thou
woldest
for
nothing
haue
doon
it
/
but
it
desplayseth
the
/
and
is
not
by
thy
faulte
happed
/
thou
synnest
not
.
This
comandement
defendeth
alle
desyres
and
consentyng
to
haue
flesshly
companye
to
another
mans
wyf
and
other
woman
whateuer
she
be
/
but
yf
it
be
to
thy
wedded
wyf
.
It
defendeth
the
euyll
signes
without
forth
.
whiche
may
drawe
folk
to
synne
as
be
euyll
wordes
and
dyshoneste
.
and
also
alle
foulle
gropynges
&
touchynges
.
Alas
that
this
comandement
is
euyll
kept
.
wherof
comen
many
harmes
/
In
these
dayes
is
not
retched
to
require
wedded
wymmen
/
and
to
styre
and
cause
them
to
synne
/
wherof
folowen
many
peryllis
.
for
many
of
them
haue
chyldren
.
whiche
ben
not
theyr
housbondes
.
And
thus
be
he
rytiers
of
them
that
they
be
nothyng
of
kynne
ne
sibbe
to
.
and
the
right
ful
heyres
ben
desherited
.
and
faders
and
moders
be
dampned
cruelly
.
And
of
this
sinne
the
cristen
men
setten
lasse
therby
than
doo
the
paynems
or
sarasyns
.
¶
Example
.
The
holy
Exam
scrypture
sayth
that
whan
Abraham
wold
passe
the
royame
of
egypte
.
by
cause
he
knewe
well
that
the
egypciens
were
lecherous
.
he
said
to
his
wyf
.
that
she
shold
saie
that
she
was
his
suster
by
cause
she
was
fayre
▪
and
specially
for
they
shold
slee
him
and
take
her
away
/
whan
they
were
in
the
cyte
where
the
king
was
she
was
anon
taken
and
ledde
vnto
the
kynge
.
but
whan
he
knewe
that
she
was
wyf
to
abraham
.
how
wel
that
he
was
a
paynem
he
was
moche
angri
.
And
he
neuer
touched
her
.
but
blamed
moche
abraham
of
that
he
sayd
she
was
hys
suster
and
was
his
wyf
.
and
made
to
.
lede
them
out
of
his
royame
and
gaaf
.
to
them
many
yeftes
.
Example
.
we
rede
in
holy
scripture
of
the
wyf
of
putyphar
whiche
was
mayster
of
the
Chyualrie
of
the
kyng
of
egypte
whiche
had
bought
Joseth
that
whan
she
sawe
Joseph
by
cause
he
was
so
fayre
a
yong
man
she
wold
haue
made
hym
to
haue
leyen
by
her
oftymes
by
force
.
And
in
th
ende
she
had
him
in
her
chambre
:
&
toke
him
by
the
mantel
&
wold
haue
enforced
him
to
haue
sinned
with
hir
.
but
he
lefte
his
mantel
whychè
she
heldé
fasté
and
fledde
away
fro
hyr
sayeng
/
I
shal
neuer
doo
that
vylonnye
to
my
mayster
.
whiche
hath
delyuèred
to
me
for
to
gouerne
alle
that
he
hath
.
reserued
her
wold
god
that
alle
the
seruantes
were
also
trewe
to
theyr
maystres
as
he
was
.
and
alle
wymen
better
to
theyr
housbondes
than
she
was
.
The.
x.
comandement
is
this
.
thou
shalt
not
coueyte
thyng
that
longeth
to
thyn
neyghbour
▪
This
comandement
defendeth
the
all
manere
wyll
to
haue
ony
others
gaod
wrongfulli
:
ayenst
this
comādemt
doon
the
ryche
men
whan
they
knowe
that
theyr
poure
neyghbours
haue
gardyns
or
lendes
or
other
thinges
nyhe
to
them
anon
they
wyll
haue
it
&
they
yf
will
not
deliuer
it
to
them
at
theyr
wyll
/
they
menace
them
or
hurte
or
diffame
them
&
therfore
it
is
cominly
said
who
that
hath
a
good
neyghbour
hath
good
morow
.
in
this
comandement
is
defended
enuye
at
other
mannes
wele
or
good
or
at
his
grace
or
welfare
.
this
is
an
euyll
couetise
.
&
whan
the
consente
is
acerteined
and
concluded
in
his
thought
it
is
dedeli
sinne
.
but
whan
the
thought
cometh
and
no
consent
gyuen
therto
it
is
venial
synne
.
Of
the
good
that
god
grannted
to
the
childre
of
israel
/
C.
xiiij
OF
goodes
that
god
graunted
to
the
children
of
Israel
yf
they
kept
wel
his
comādemetis
.
&
the
euillis
to
them
that
kept
them
not
wel
/
by
cause
that
for
the
sinne
of
our
first
fader
Adam
for
ony
good
that
we
dyde
myght
none
come
in
heuen
to
fore
the
passion
of
our
lord
.
but
in
behoued
that
alle
descended
in
to
helle
good
&
euil
how
well
that
the
good
had
not
peyne
.
but
that
they
were
in
derknesse
.
&
abod
the
comyng
of
our
lord
ihu
crist
.
these
ben
the
goodes
that
our
lord
promised
to
the
chyldren
of
israel
yf
they
kept
wel
his
comandements
/
and
how
wel
that
by
the
grace
of
hym
we
may
now
gete
heuen
/
yf
it
be
not
longyng
ou
vs
/
thns
he
prometteth
to
vs
.
yf
ye
doo
&
kepe
my
comandements
said
our
lord
I
shal
gyue
to
yow
rayne
in
your
nede
.
your
lond
&
your
trees
shal
gyue
to
you
fruyt
so
habundantly
/
that
whan
the
newe
shal
come
▪
ye
shall
cast
away
the
olde
.
Item
I
shal
gyue
to
you
suche
peas
that
non
shal
mowe
grieue
you
.
&
yf
ony
enforce
them
ayenst
you
.
I
shal
gyue
to
you
so
grete
strengthe
.
that
fyue
of
you
shal
make
an
honderde
of
them
to
flee
.
and
ye
shal
ete
.
slepe
&
reste
in
surete
:
&
non
shall
angre
you
:
&
noo
euyl
bestes
shall
destroie
your
fruittes
I
shal
not
forgete
yon
.
but
I
shal
all
way
be
with
you
/
&
I
shal
be
your
god
.
&
ye
shal
be
my
people
:
and
yf
ye
kepe
not
my
comādemautis
saith
our
lord
.
after
that
ye
haue
laboured
youre
landes
&
vygnes
.
ther
shal
com
stronge
peple
whiche
shall
destroie
your
fruites
and
shall
robbe
you
.
and
shal
defoule
your
wyns
and
shal
slee
yon
and
your
children
.
and
after
whan
ye
shal
haue
laboured
your
londes
and
sette
your
vygnes
/
they
shal
gyue
noo
fruit
but
shal
be
destroied
with
tempeste
and
wasted
with
thondre
&
lyghtnyng
/
alas
we
haue
oftymes
proued
for
our self
.
and
lytyl
we
haue
amended
vs
and
corected
vs
for
our
synnes
.
verely
all
that
we
haue
suffred
and
suffre
yet
it
is
not
but
for
our
sinnes
/
for
the
holy
scripture
saith
that
if
we
had
none
iniquitees
we
shold
suffre
non
aduersitees
¶
Of
the
fyue
wyttes
of
nature
.
Capitulo
xv
GOd
haue
gyuen
to
the
v
wyttes
of
nature
/
and
the
membres
of
thy
body
for
to
kepe
his
comandements
▪
andfor
to
serue
hym
&
to
sane
thy self
.
and
hath
gyuen
to
the
an
herte
for
to
thynke
wel
and
in
specyall
for
to
loue
hys
and
to
remembre
hys
grares
and
the
benefaittes
that
he
hath
doon
to
the
lyke
as
it
hath
be
said
to
the
tofore
of
charite
.
nothing
to
thynke
on
synne
.
for
fro
the
herte
come
the
vices
and
the
synnes
.
For
to fore
that
thou
makest
thou
thynkest
on
them
&
ben
made
in
thy
herte
/
lyke
as
saith
saint
Gregorie
god
hath
gyuen
to
the
thyn
eyen
for
to
lede
the
and
for
to
behold
the
in
pyte
and
for
to
see
the
merueyllous
werkes
that
he
hath
made
spirituel
in
heuen
on
the
sonne
&
on
the
moue
/
and
on
the
sterres
whiche
moeuen
day
and
nyght
wythout
●●ssyng
and
without
fallyng
of
one
onely
poynt
.
and
certes
lyke
as
sayth
saynt
poul
/
they
be
wel
worthy
to
knowe
god
and
his
vertu
.
and
to
shewe
his
dignite
and
his
glorie
.
Ceries
who
that
neuer
had
seen
them
shold
moche
merueille
for
to
see
them
.
and
to
thynke
how
fro
this
paynful
lyf
we
shold
mounte
vp
aboue
them
.
And
therfor
he
hath
made
our
visage
toward
.
heuen
.
Thou
oughtest
not
to
byholde
so
stedfastly
the
thynges
whiche
thou
oughtest
not
to
coueyte
.
as
ben
som
tyme
these
wymen
whiche
byholden
so
fixly
the
men
/
and
the
men
the
wymen
/
whiche
cause
eche
other
oftymes
and
gyue
occasion
.
to
sinne
For
as
the
wise
man
saith
fro
seyng
they
falle
to
speche
fro
speche
to
touchyng
.
fro
touch●g
to
kyssyng
/
fro
kyssyng
to
the
dede
.
¶
Example
.
by
cause
that
Exam
dauid
beheld
the
wyf
of
vrye
ouer
aduisedly
he
fylle
in
the
sinne
of
aduoulterie
&
par aduenture
he
had
neuer
seen
her
tofore
After
he
had
gyuen
to
the
/
ee●●s
for
to
here
the
sermons
and
▪
alle
good
wordes
:
and
alle
that
ought
and
myght
touche
thy
saluacion
.
and
not
for
to
here
euyl
wordes
and
deshoneste
whyche
tourne
to
synne
&
euyll
reportes
.
O
lord
god
how
many
be
ther
of
these
euyl
herkners
and
reporters
.
Certaynly
yf
ther
were
non
euyll
herkners
.
ther
shold
be
non
euyll
reporters
/
For
gladly
is
nothing
re●poted
.
but
to
them
/
that
be
knowen
and
wyl
gladly
heere
it
Thou
onghtest
to
note
that
god
hath
not
gyuen
to
the
but
one
mouth
.
and
he
hath
geuyn
to
the
ij
eeres
.
to
th
ende
that
thou
be
more
redy
to
here
.
than
to
speke
lyke
as
sayth
saynt
James
.
Be
diligent
to
here
the
good
.
and
slowe
to
speke
the
euyl
.
After
god
hath
gyuen
to
the
a
nose
for
to
smelle
how
our
lord
is
swete
and
debonayre
as
dauyd
the
prophete
saith
.
and
not
for
to
delyte
in
the
filthe
and
odours
of
this
world
:
After
he
hath
gy●●●
to
the
a
mouth
and
a
tongue
for
to
seme
.
praise
and
rendre●●
him
thankynges
of
the
goodes
that
he
hath
doon
to
the.
and
not
for
to
saye
euyll
wordes
for
to
bac
byte
and
deffame
other
/
for
the
thondre
and
tempeste
whiche
●o
undeth
and
destwieth
all
that
it
attaingneth
.
ne
quarellis
fleyng
ne
speres
percyng
.
ne
fyre
brennyng
.
ne
serpent
enuenymed
fleyng
/
doo
not
so
moche
harme
&
●uyll
vnto
the
world
.
as
doo
the
euyll
tongues
/
After
god
hath
gyuen
to
the
the
hondes
for
to
doo
almesse
and
good
werkes
/
and
he
hath
gyuen
to
the
thy
fret
for
to
bere
the
to
the
chirche
and
monastery
:
and
in
to
alle
good
places
▪
and
alle
thy
▪
body
for
to
seme
hym
&
to
saue
thy self
:
Example
.
we
rede
that
ther
wer
two
religious
men
whiche
dnellyd
togider
:
and
that
one
said
to
that
other
/
that
he
that
first
deyed
of
them
bothe
shold
come
again
yf
it
were
to
him
possible
.
and
saie
to
his
felawe
of
his
estate
.
&
who
it
stode
wyth
hym
.
It
happed
that
one
of
them
deyed
and
appered
to
his
felawe
.
the
whiche
demaunded
of
his
estate
and
how
it
was
with
him
.
And
he
ansuered
to
him
right
enyl
.
For
he
felte
right
euyl
anguyssh
atte
herte
and
sayd
to
him
.
I
haue
ben
a
religyous
man
good
ynough
atte
herte
pure
and
clene
of
alle
thynges
/
But
I
haue
ben
of
right
euyll
wyl
For
whych●
th●ge
I
haue
ben
ouer
sore
tormented
and
shal
be
in
purgatorie
yet
xv
dayes
.
hys
felawe
ansuered
to
hym
and
said
that
is
a
lityl
thyng
or
nought
.
The
dede
man
replyed
I
had
leuer
be
in
the
world
xviij
●
yere
.
and
to
be
euen
daye
alle
flayn
quycke
thre
tymes
that
to
be
in
the
peyne
of
purgatorie
xv
dayes
¶
Of
the
sowle
Ca.
xv
THer
be
many
symple
folke
whiche
saye
that
they
knowe
not
what
thing
is
the
sowle
.
And
that
saye
whan
the
body
is
dede
that
they
shal
neuer
fele
good
ne
euyl
whiche
is
an
euyl
heresye
to
saye
it
.
and
worse
yet
to
byleue
yt
¶
And
by
that
they
putte
them
in
many
synnes
.
By
cause
we
haue
to fore
spoken
of
the
fyue
wyttes
of
nature
.
¶
why
the
may
nothynge
without
the
sowle
¶
we
wyl
here
speke
som
what
/
For
to
gyue
som
techyng
¶
Many
philosophers
hau●
spoken
in
many
inan●rs
/
but
we
ought
to
byleue
the
saieng
of
saintes
and
good
catholyke
&
holy
maistres
whyche
sayen
.
that
the
soule
is
a
substance
spyrituell
and
reasonable
created
of
nothyng
for
to
quykene
the
humayn
body
for
thou
seest
that
whan
the
soule
is
out
of
the
body
.
it
abydeth
all
styl
as
a
deed
beeste
and
the
man
whan
he
engendreth
the
child
he
engendred
nothing
the
soule
/
but
god
of
his
grace
putteth
the
soule
therin
as
saien
the
maistres
.
and
is
a
thing
perpetuel
and
entendyble
wel
made
to
the
ymage
of
god
.
it
is
capable
or
capa●
of
vertues
or
of
vices
recouering
peyne
or
reward
.
free
of
liberte
/
ornate
of
puissaunce
and
of
affection
it
is
no
greter
in
a
grete
body
than
it
is
in
a
lytyl
body
/
it
hath
no
figure
ne
colour
/
The
maistres
saien
:
that
it
is
grete
by
cause
it
is
perdurable
/
it
is
rightwys
and
Juste
by
cause
it
desireth
bounte
.
It
is
fayr
and
holy
by
cause
it
is
partable
of
the
deyte
or
godhede
ne
it
shal
neuer
deye
/
but
euer
it
shal
lyue
/
be
it
in
glorie
or
be
it
in
peine
/
yf
the
sowle
were
mortal
with
the
body
.
thenne
were
it
no
nede
to
requyre
the
saintes
ferrene
nere
.
the
whiche
helpe
vs
oftimes
vnto
our
lord
by
theyr
prayers
.
And
alle
way
we
be
certayn
and
know
verely
that
theyr
bodyes
bendede
and
is
left
of
many
but
the
bones
thenne
it
appeireth
that
theyr
soules
lyue
.
the
book
of
sapience
techeth
vs
.
that
the
soules
of
iust
men
lyuen
perdnrably
.
and
that
their
soules
ben
in
the
hand
of
god
and
the
torment
of
malice
shal
not
touche
them
.
that
is
the
malice
of
the
deuyllis
.
And
of
the
euyl
soules
saith
the
gospel
.
that
atte
day
of
dome
they
shal
seke
the
deth
.
but
they
shal
not
fynde
it
.
Sith
thenne
that
thou
seest
thy
soule
is
suche
as
may
not
deye
kepe
it
thenne
right
clene
.
for
the
philosopher
saith
that
god
hath
not
deliuered
it
to
the
to
th
ende
that
thou
kepe
it
dishonestly
by
synne
/
but
to
th
ende
that
it
growe
in
the
vertue
of
good
scyence
and
by
good
werkis
.
For
as
he
sayth
yf
it
be
parfight
to fore
that
it
be
departed
fro
thy
body
it
shal
be
lyfte
▪
vp
to
fore
god
to
whom
it
hath
plesed
.
¶
And
yf
it
be
●●parfight
/
it
shall
falle
in
to
the
depthe
of
helle
without
hope
of
euer
to
plese
god
.
God
loueth
so
moche
the
soule
that
he
wold
suffre
deth
&
passion
an
the
crosse
so
shamefully
for
it
.
as
thou
hast
herd
to fore
recounted
/
whiche
he
wold
not
doo
for
alle
the
creatures
of
the
world
.
A
wyse
man
putteth
an
example
and
saith
for
to
kepe
wel
the
loue
.
yf
the
kyng
had
adoughter
that
he
loueth
wel
&
holde
her
dere
to
th
ende
to
make
her
quene
of
hys
wyalme
/
and
he
deliuered
her
to
kepe
to
som
of
hys
subiectys
/
And
yf
he
had
euyl
kepte
hyr
.
I
doubte
not
but
that
the
kyng
wold
demande
reason
of
his
doughter
/
by
cause
he
had
kepte
her
neclygently
.
what
shall
then
doo
the
kyng
of
heuen
of
hym
to
whom
he
hath
delyuered
his
doughter
that
is
the
soule
made
to
hys
semblaunce
whom
he
loueth
so
wel
as
thou
hast
herd
to fore
and
entendith
to
make
her
queue
in
heuen
yf
she
haue
not
be
euil
kept
:
And
therfore
saith
the
boke
of
detronomie
kepe
thy
soule
curiously
&
dyligently
/
he
shal
be
wel
happy
that
shal
mowe
saye
to
our
lord
Jhesu
cust
atte
hour
of
his
deth
/
Lord
god
my
maker
I
rende
to
the
my
soule
:
And
therfore
god
hath
deliuered
to
the
thy
body
as
a
castell
for
to
kepe
it
wel
.
And
therfor
sayth
saynt
bernard
/
he
kepeth
wel
his
castell
that
kepeth
the
body
fro
sinne
.
where
in
the
soule
is
enclosed
Now
hast
thou
herd
what
it
is
of
the
soule
.
therfore
kepe
wel
thyn
:
to
th
ende
that
thou
mayst
yelde
good
rekenyng
&
acomptes
atte
day
of
dome
.
¶
Of
the
euyllis
that
synnes
make
vs
to
doo
:
Ca.
xvij
TOfore
erwe
speke
of
synnes
we
shal
saye
of
the
euillis
that
synnes
doon
after
the
saieng
of
holy
doctours
:
synne
dooth
to
vs
moche
harme
and
causeth
many
euyllys
tofore
the
deth
and
after
the
deth
.
¶
Tofore
the
deth
synne
hurteth
vs
.
Item
it
derketh
our
vnderstandyng
that
we
may
not
knowe
trouthe
:
It
maketh
our
affeccion
and
our
deuocyon
negligent
that
we
may
doo
noo
good
.
item
it
despoilleth
vs
fro
goodes
of
grace
Item
it
deffoilled
our
soule
.
it
bindeth
vs
to
perpetuel
paine
:
It
maketh
our
conscience
bytter
/
It
hardeth
vs
in
it
/
It
yeldeth
vs
invisible
.
It
sleeth
the
soule
whan
it
priueth
vs
fro
the
loue
of
god
whiche
is
lyf
perdurable
.
Thou
oughtest
to
knowe
that
venyal
synne
disposeth
&
gyueth
the
persone
todeth
But
the
dedely
synne
gyueth
the
deth
:
Obstynacion
deteyneth
&
holdeth
the
persone
in
the
deth
.
And
knowe
thou
certaynly
that
one
of
the
synnes
groweth
of
another
Fyrst
the
proud
persone
wyll
be
afore
and
aboue
alle
other
and
is
enuyous
yf
ony
be
lyke
or
semblable
to
hym
:
and
so
therby
he
falleth
in
enuye
.
Then
uyous
by
cause
that
lyghtly
he
is
angry
on
him
to
whome
he
is
enuyous
.
he
falleth
in
the
synne
of
wrath
or
Jre
.
he
that
is
angry
whan
he
may
not
venge
him
on
whom
he
is
angry
.
he
falleth
in
slouthe
.
The
slouthful
by
cause
he
wyll
not
ne
may
nothyng
doo
.
he
kepeth
that
he
hath
and
becometh
auaritious
.
The
auaritious
man
beyng
riche
by
cause
he
hath
wel
to
ete
&
to
drinke
/
he
falleth
in
to
glotonye
The
glouton
whan
he
hath
wel
dronken
&
eten
he
falleth
lyghtly
in
to
lecherie
/
&
thus
mayst
thou
see
how
the
synnes
growen
one
of
another
.
Item
synne
maketh
of
the
man
helle
.
For
to
the
synnar
is
the
fyre
of
auarice
/
the
stenche
of
lecherye
.
derkenesse
of
Ignorance
.
Item
it
rendreth
a
man
all
wid
.
It
deceyueth
a
man
in
makynge
him
good
chere
.
It
sheweth
a
man
to
be
a
fool
.
For
saint
Austyn
saith
that
it
is
grete
folye
to
lyue
in
suche
▪
astate
.
wherinhe
dar
not
deye
.
sinne
greueth
a
man
to
the
deth
for
at
the
deth
the
man
is
right
greuo
▪
whan
he
leseth
his
delites
&
the
soulace
of
this
world
that
he
hath
ledde
that
is
to
wite
of
drinking
and
eting
with
his
frendes
.
of
his
richesses
of
disportes
&
plaies
.
&
also
is
priued
of
his
propre
body
the
whiche
he
shal
neuer
recouere
in
suche
forme
:
for
whan
the
soule
of
the
sinnar
shal
recouere
his
body
atte
day
of
dome
.
it
shal
be
moche
abasshed
.
and
wold
wel
haue
it
agayn
in
the
astate
.
as
it
was
whan
the
wormes
had
half
eten
it
in
the
sepulture
/
Item
the
synnar
shal
be
moche
abasshed
at
his
deth
whan
he
shal
see
the
deuillis
after
¶
the
deth
the
sinnar
shal
haue
grete
shame
and
confusion
whan
the
synnes
shullen●e
recounted
to
fore
god
and
tofore
alle
his
saintes
of
heuen
.
And
our
lord
shall
reproche
hym
by
cause
he
had
not
doon
the
werkes
of
mercy
as
they
haue
ben
tofore
sayd
/
he
shal
be
priued
fro
reste
&
fro
light
.
ne
the
chyrche
shal
not
praye
for
hym
/
and
he
shal
be
cast
in
to
helle
.
Item
he
shal
be
departed
fro
god
and
all
saintes
of
heuen
and
fro
all
good
he
shal
falle
fro
thestate
to
doo
werkes
that
ben
good
for
his
helthe
:
Now
seest
thou
how
synne
ennoyeth
to
him
that
kepeth
it
in
hys
lyf
/
and
whan
he
deyeth
/
and
yet
more
whan
he
is
dede
/
Therfore
take
hede
yf
thou
wylt
haue
heuen
¶
Of
the
sinne
of
pryde
/
Capitulo
xviij
●Any
ther
ben
of
symple
people
whiche
know
not
what
thyng
sinne
is
.
ne
●onne
not
discerne
it
.
but
they
can
well
doo
it
/
wherfore
I
shal
shewe
to
them
some
thyng
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
without
whiche
may
not
be
gyuen
ony
techyng
ne
declaracion
/
And
fyrst
of
the
synne
of
pryde
▪
whyche
is
the
synne
that
we
haue
and
take
of
our
fyrst
fader
Adam
/
the
whyche
he
dide
by
hys
disobeissaunce
.
And
thys
synne
doth
to
vs
moche
harme
in
diuerse
maners
▪
as
it
appereth
by
certayn
names
that
it
hath
after
the
doctours
of
holy
chyche
:
Fyrst
it
is
named
Infirmyte
.
For
yt
yeldeth
a
man
Impotent
&
seek
to
resyste
euyll
mouynges
and
temptacions
whyche
may
come
to
him
Item
it
is
prompt
&
redy
by
cause
of
continuel
inclinacion
that
it
hath
of
appetyte
to
doo
enyll
.
Item
it
hath
name
corupcyon
/
whan
it
bringeth
a
man
to
synne
.
Item
vice
:
by
cause
it
is
dymy●●cion
or
lassyng
of
goodes
of
nature
.
Item
langour
whan
it
dureth
in
nature
corrupt
.
¶
Item
it
is
called
lawe
of
the
flesshe
by
cause
the
lawe
is
Inflyct
and
ioyned
to
the
flesshe
¶
Item
lawe
of
the
membres
for
it
moeueththem
to
the
werke
of
euyll
concupiscence
.
¶
Item
nourrisshement
.
For
lyke
as
asshes
nourrisshen
the
fyre
.
ryght
so
by
it
is
nourrisshed
synne
in
the
flesshe
after
the
werke
nutrityf
and
generatyf
.
¶
Item
the
prycke
of
the
flessh
/
For
it
moeueth
the
flesshe
at
the
fyrst
moeuyng
of
synne
.
and
courage
to
the
consentyng
:
It
is
callyd
concupyscence
.
that
is
to
saye
vyce
in
dede
.
as
it
appereth
to
them
that
be
nowe
able
to
synne
.
¶
Item
wylle
to
synne
.
as
it
appereth
in
the
lytyl
chyldren
.
whyche
yet
haue
no
power
to
synne
.
but
they
haue
the
wyll
:
¶
Item
in
so
moche
that
it
is
compared
to
the
fyrst
man
.
fro
whom
it
cam
first
that
was
Adam
/
it
is
named
original
.
whiche
is
as
moche
to
saie
as
deffaulte
of
Justice
due
.
Thus
sayen
the
doctours
&
maystres
in
theologie
¶
Of
venial
synnes
Capytulo
/
xix
THese
beu
the
synnes
venyal
:
And
fyrst
as
sayth
saynt
Austyn
.
Excesse
in
drynkyng
and
etyng
.
in
ouer
moche
spekyng
:
or
ouer
mo●he
beyng
styll
:
mockyng
of
poure
peple
.
to
ete
whan
other
doon
abstynence
.
to
come
late
to
chyrche
by
ouer
long
slepyng
.
to
knowe
hys
wyf
without
hauyng
hope
to
haue
a
chyld
.
to
vysite
ouer
late
the
seke
people
and
the
prisonners
.
ne
wylle
accorde
them
that
ben
in
debate
&
in
dyscorde
to
despyse
his
wyf
and
his
chyldren
/
hys
seruaunts
and
hys
neyhbours
/
Excesse
in
flatring
.
to
gyue
to
the
poure
thynges
delycyouses
and
contagious
to
vndrestande
saye
▪
or
h●ere
ydle
wordes
in
the
chirche
/
or
els
where
:
to
swere
for
Japes
without
reason
.
to
doo
that
wherfore
one
muste
swere
to
forswere
hym self
for
ony
necessyte
.
lyghtly
and
folyly
to
curse
an
other
/
the
harmes
&
euillis
that
venial
sinnes
doon
be
these
.
first
venial
sinne
byndeth
the
persone
to
peine
/
not
determinatly
ne
precisely
to
peine
perdurable
/
but
to
peyne
purgatyf
.
&
of
present
affeccion
¶
Item
it
hardeth
the
soule
.
For
saynt
Gregorye
sayth
the
venial
synne
derketh
the
soule
.
¶
Item
it
lasseth
the
sauour
of
charyte
/
Item
it
lasseth
the
powers
of
the
soule
.
for
it
ableth
not
to
do
ony
good
.
Item
it
tarieth
to
haue
grace
for
the
soule
whiche
might
anon
s●ihe
vp
in
to
heuen
after
the
deth
it
behoueth
that
for
the
venial
sine
it
be
first
purged
in
purgatorie
for
it
behoueth
that
the
sonle
be
also
clene
atte
coming
in
to
heuen
as
it
was
whan
the
body
was
fyrst
,
baptysed
.
Item
it
dyminys●
heth
the
heuenly
goodes
not
them
that
we
shal
haue
yf
we
haue
noo
venyal
synne
For
whan
we
doo
the
venyal
synnes
we
lese
for
to
doo
ony
good
meritorye
whyche
we
doo
not
Item
that
many
tymes
the
venyal
synnes
be
cause
of
the
dedely
Thou
oughtest
to
knowe
that
lyke
at
the
remyssyon
of
dedely
synne
.
the
byhoueth
to
leue
the
werke
of
synne
.
and
to
haue
good
wille
to
absteyne
the
fro
than
forthon
:
In
lyke
wyse
in
thys
present
world
is
not
pardonned
the
venyal
synne
/
yf
thou
leue
not
in
dede
and
in
wyll
:
For
saynt
Austyn
saith
that
no
synne
is
venyal
but
it
may
be
mortal
that
is
to
saye
whan
a
persone
hath
therin
playsance
and
delectacyon
.
but
ther
be
many
thynges
by
whyche
venial
synnes
may
be
pardonned
.
First
by
the
sacrementes
of
holy
chirche
in
receyuyng
&
honouryng
them
/
Item
by
holy
water
▪
by
the
bysshops
blyssyng
.
by
smyting
on
his
brest
by
saieng
of
the
pater
noster
/
by
almesses
&
by
fastynges
.
And
thou
oughtest
knowe
that
it
byhoueth
that
thou
haue
contricion
and
repeutaunce
For
ellis
they
shal
not
be
pardoned
to
the
¶
Of
dedely
synnes
Capitulo
xx
SAynt
Johan
saith
in
th
apocalyps
:
that
he
sawe
yssue
out
of
the
see
a
moche
horrible
beste
/
whiche
had
vij
hee
des
and
.x.
hornes
and
vpon
the
/
x.
hornes
ten
crownes
Thorrible
beste
signifieth
the
deuyl
whiche
is
the
see
of
the
helle
The
.vij.
hedes
signifie
the
vij
dedely
synnes
/
that
is
to
wete
.
Pryde
/
Enuye
.
Wrath.
Auarice
/
slouthe
.
Gloutonye
.
&
Lecherye
.
For
these
vij
dedely
sinnes
ben
the
h●ede
&
chief
of
all
euyllis
and
of
alle
other
vyces
of
sinne
.
The
x
hornes
signifien
the
brekyng
of
the
ten
comandementis
of
the
lawe
.
And
the
x
crownes
signifien
the
ten
vyctoryes
that
the
fende
of
helle
hath
/
whan
for
the
defaulte
of
kepyng
well
the
ten
comandementis
of
the
lawe
by
the
v
wyttes
to
forsaid
the
deuyl
maketh
the
psone
to
falle
in
to
dedeli
sinne
&
therfore
we
will
speke
therof
here
¶
Of
the
sinne
of
pryde
/
Capitulo
xxi
IT
is
pryde
to
wene
to
be
better
worth
/
or
to
knowe
more
:
or
may
more
doo
than
other
or
to
were
prowd
for
richesses
or
lygnage
for
beaute
.
for
scyence
:
or
for
ony
other
thyng
to
haue
moo
w●es
or
other
Jewellis
than
it
apperteyneth
to
hys
astate
▪
or
to
haue
habytes
desordinate
/
to
saye
.
or
to
too
ony
thyng
for
to
be
preysed
.
to
auaunte
hym self
of
hys
synnes
whyche
is
ouer
grete
an
euyll
/
to
seche
hye
astate
in
offyce
.
for
to
be
preysed
without
that
he
be
worthy
/
to
despyse
and
desday
ne
ony
other
To
auaunte
hym self
of
somme
good
dede
for
to
haue
preysyng
of
the
world
.
For
that
is
ypocrysye
.
to
disobeye
the.
x
:
comandements
of
our
lord
or
of
them
that
he
ought
to
Exam
obeye
.
¶
Example
/
we
rede
in
the
fyrst
book
of
kynges
/
that
god
comaunded
to
kyng
Saul
that
he
shold
god
ayenst
abyma
lech
for
to
make
warre
ayenst
hym
/
And
that
he
shold
put
to
deth
all
men
and
wymen
lytyl
and
grete
and
theyr
beste●
/
and
that
he
shold
destroye
alle
that
they
hadde
.
And
that
he
shold
reteine
nothyng
.
by
cause
they
hadde
werred
ayenst
the
chyldren
of
Israel
whan
they
cam
foo
▪
Egypte
▪
The
kyng
Saul
and
hys
peple
wente
thyder
.
but
they
dyde
not
the
comaun
dement
of
god
but
toke
the
kyng
and
ladde
hym
wyth
hym
prisonner
and
reteyned
the
beste
of
all
the
good
and
of
the
bestis
to
make
sacrifyce
to
god
.
For
whiche
disobeysaunce
the
king
saul
loste
by
hys
lyue
the
moste
parte
of
hys
wyalme
.
and
was
delyuered
to
kyng
Dauid
/
It
is
pryde
to
haue
shame
of
the
poure
and
to
despise
his
poure
parentes
and
hynnesmen
/
for
theyr
synne
:
The
holy
euuangelyst
sayth
that
crist
had
noo
shame
to
be
famylyer
wyth
iiij
.
wymen
synners
of
the
lygnage
of
our
lord
after
thumanyte
.
/
Saynt
Gregorye
saith
that
we
ought
to
hate
the
synnes
and
not
the
persones
synnars
/
&
the
holy
gospel
saith
that
our
lord
cam
in
to
thys
world
to
calle
the
synnars
/
and
not
the
rightful
men
:
It
is
pryde
to
haue
despyte
whan
one
sheweth
to
hym
hys
defautes
to
kepe
hym
in
the
santence
of
cursyng
/
to
here
messe
whan
he
stondeth
a
cursed
/
thys
is
right
grete
synne
/
For
he
taketh
no
part
of
the
masse
.
And
the
preeste
shold
sgnne
gretely
:
yf
he
songe
masse
knowyng
that
a
persone
solemp●ly
acursed
w●r●
present
¶
Of
the
sentences
of
excomynycacion
.
Capituls
xxij
Many
of
the
symple
peple
double
nothyng
the
sentences
of
cursyng
.
And
sayen
that
it
letteth
not
theyr
potte
to
boyll
on
the
fyre
/
knowe
they
for
certayn
that
they
disobeye
god
.
For
seint
poul
saith
ther
is
noo
power
but
it
be
ordeyned
of
god
/
And
who
resisteth
the
powers
of
the
chirche
.
resisteth
the
ordeynaunces
of
god
:
God
sayth
to
saynt
peter
/
whan
he
delyuerd
to
hym
the
ij
keyes
whyche
ben
the
power
of
cursyng
and
of
assoyllyng
.
that
what
someuer
he
losed
vpon
erthe
/
shold
be
losed
in
heuen
and
by
the
contrarye
.
what
he
bonde
in
erthe
shold
be
bounden
in
heuen
Thenne
seynt
peter
holdeth
the
power
&
thauc
torite
of
excominicacyon
and
cursyng
whiche
he
hath
of
god
.
And
the
other
prelates
holden
it
of
seynt
peter
.
and
alle
the
Judges
of
holy
chyrche
:
Thou
oughtest
to
knowe
that
ther
be
two
parties
of
sentences
moche
doubtable
to
alle
persones
.
as
wel
of
the
chyrche
as
seculer
.
that
is
to
wete
sentence
of
the
lawe
wreton
.
as
to
sette
hond
on
preest
or
clerk
or
a
man
of
the
chirche
.
and
after
that
the
caas
is
grete
the
sentence
also
is
more
grete
:
The
lawe
canon
saith
that
yf
thou
take
a
clerke
●aly●yously
by
the
hood
or
by
the
chyn
sayeng
yf
thou
were
noo
clerke
/
I
shold
bete
the.
thou
art
bounden
in
the
senteuce
of
lawe
canon
.
Ther
is
another
sentence
that
the
Judge
of
the
chirche
gyueth
lyke
as
prelats
osticyals
and
other
deputes
of
the
pope
.
There
is
also
sentence
whiche
is
called
interdict
as
somtyme
the
prelates
doo
whiche
Interdite
the
chyrchys
&
chercheyerdes
for
certayn
and
iuste
causes
.
Ther
is
another
whiche
is
callyd
suspenaon
as
is
doon
somtyme
on
them
of
the
chyrche
whyche
doo
not
dyuyne
offyces
●or
some
causes
.
Ther
is
sentence
to
them
that
medle
wyth
them
that
ben
excomynyed
/
sauf
in
caas
●●●tryd
by
the
lawe
.
Saint
gregore
putteth
many
caases
to
them
that
may
medle
wyth
the
excomynyed
.
that
is
to
wete
the
wyf
.
the
chyldren
&
the
semantes
.
they
that
knowe
not
that
they
be
acursed
/
they
that
goo
by
the
way
/
whan
the
interdit
is
in
a
toun
.
yf
they
may
not
other
wyse
haue
theyr
lyuing
but
by
them
and
they
that
for
charite
and
not
by
pryde
wold
doo
almesse
to
them
that
be
excomynyed
/
we
forbede
not
saith
saint
Gregore
.
Saint
Johan
golden
mouth
saith
that
none
ought
to
despyse
the
sentences
of
the
chyrche
/
For
it
is
no
mortal
man
that
curseth
&
excominieth
.
but
it
is
god
whiche
hath
gyuen
power
to
man
.
and
hath
made
the
man
worthy
to
haue
suche
honour
.
It
is
pryde
to
here
masse
wyth
them
that
stonden
acursed
:
&
to
medle
with
them
wetyngly
/
but
in
caas
suffred
by
the
lawe
as
tofore
said
is
.
also
to
leue
to
doo
well
for
to
speke
&
mocke
the
peple
.
to
be
in
dispayr
for
his
synnes
/
Example
.
Exam
seint
gregore
saith
&
reherseth
in
his
dyalogue
.
that
ther
were
in
a
monasterie
of
seint
benet
two
nonnes
.
the
whyche
had
one
man
of
religion
that
semed
them
whom
oftymes
they
angred
&
said
to
him
many
vyloni●s
&
whan
he
had
longe
&
moche
suffred
/
he
wente
to
seint
benet
.
&
said
to
hym
that
he
was
euil
treated
by
them
seint
benet
sente
for
them
.
&
had
them
to
correcte
their
tongues
saieng
yf
ye
not
ameude
you
/
I
shal
curse
you
.
they
amended
them
nothyng
.
&
deied
shortly
after
&
were
buried
in
the
chyrche
.
whan
the
masse
shold
by
song
/
&
the
deken
cried
.
that
they
that
were
not
partyners
of
the
benefice
of
the
chyrche
And
they
that
were
excominied
shold
goo
out
of
the
chyrche
:
their
nourices
whiche
offred
for
them
sawe
them
goo
out
of
the
chyrche
.
&
whan
she
sawe
that
she
remembred
of
that
whiche
seint
benet
had
said
to
them
&
told
it
to
seint
benet
.
whiche
with
his
owen
hond
gaaf
thabsolucōn
&
said
goo
&
make
oblacion
for
them
to
our
lord
:
&
they
shal
be
assoilled
.
&
soo
was
doo
/
&
after
whan
the
deken
said
.
that
they
that
were
not
participant
&
●●neuer
after
they
were
seen
departe
out
of
the
chyrche
&
note
wel
that
seint
benet
had
not
excomynied
them
ony
other
wyse
but
vnder
condicyon
saieng
.
yf
ye
amende
not
you
I
shal
curse
you
.
Example
.
Item
it
is
redde
that
at
twyes
in
champayn
was
a
byshop
whiche
excominied
&
cursed
the
baylly
of
the
cyte
:
Exam
and
after
assoilled
him
&
had
him
to
diner
wyth
hym
.
after
diner
the
bysshop
demaunded
him
yf
he
were
not
more
eased
than
he
was
whan
he
stode
acursed
/
the
baylly
ansuered
/
that
he
sette
ytyl
ther
by
and
made
no
fors
.
And
anone
the
bysshop
for
to
shewe
hym
his
errour
made
to
brynge
forth
a
whyte
lo
of
and
departed
it
a sondre
.
&
after
said
/
Brede
by
th
auctorite
of
god
&
of
seint
peter
th
appostle
I
acurse
the
here
/
and
anone
that
one
half
of
the
loof
becam
as
blacke
as
a
cole
/
whan
the
bailly
sawe
that
he
and
alle
his
companye
were
moche
abasshed
.
thenne
said
the
bysshop
to
the
bailly
.
certeynly
ye
were
as
black
ayenst
god
whan
ye
were
in
the
sentence
/
and
after
said
by
th
auctorite
of
god
and
of
seint
peter
I
assoille
the
anon
the
brede
was
as
whyte
as
it
was
tofore
.
Now
seest
thou
how
thou
oughtist
to
doubte
the
sentence
of
cursyng
¶
These
ben
the
branches
of
pryde
Ca.
xxiij
THe
first
is
disloyaulte
/
that
is
vntrouthe
.
The
second
is
despite
.
the
thirde
is
presumpcyon
.
the
iiij
ambicyon
.
the
v.
is
vainglorie
.
vj
ypocrisie
:
And
the
vij
folish
drede
.
to
these
sinnes
acorden
all
the
synnes
.
that
apperteyne
&
that
growe
of
pryde
.
but
to
eche
of
these
braunches
longen
many
smale
bowes
whyche
shold
be
ouer
longe
thynge
to
reherce
all
a
long
Example
.
It
is
red
that
a
grete
lady
was
rauysshed
in
spyrite
&
sawe
a
grete
countesse
deed
whiche
had
ben
with
her
wel
a●ointed
and
sawe
the
deuyllys
whiche
token
away
the
soule
fro
the
body
and
ledde
it
in
to
helle
.
This
countesse
in
complaining
her self
&
in
grete
by
wayllinges
saide
alas
caitif
that
I
am
I
ought
wel
to
sow
we
.
for
I
haue
ben
in
my
lyf
chaste
ynow
of
my
body
.
Abstiuent
ynowh
of
my
mouth
mercyful
ynowh
&
pietous
to
the
poure
:
&
am
not
dampned
but
onely
for
the
adurnement
of
my
body
vayn
&
poowd
whiche
I
haue
ouermoche
loued
and
many
tymes
I
haue
ben
chastised
&
rebuked
but
I
wold
neuer
leue
ne
absteyne
me
therof
but
I
dyde
grete
payne
and
labour
for
to
plaise
men
And
for
so
lityl
thing
and
so
litil
tyme
.
that
so
lytyl
whyle
endured
I
am
dampned
perdurably
/
¶
Of
the
yefte
of
drede
ayenst
pryde
.
Capitulo
xxiiij
THe
fyrst
yefte
of
the
holy
ghoost
is
the
yefte
of
drede
:
this
yefte
casteth
out
alle
the
sinnes
of
the
herte
.
but
propreli
it
stoppeth
the
rote
of
pride
.
&
it
planteth
the
rote
of
humilite
.
the
holy
ghoost
demandeth
of
the
sinnar
foure
peticions
whan
he
a
waketh
him
&
reiseth
him
fro
sinne
.
&
openeth
the
eyen
of
his
herte
.
he
yeldeth
to
hym
his
witte
&
minde
.
&
axeth
hym
where
art
thou
/
that
is
to
saie
beholde
caityf
in
what
sorowe
&
in
what
sine
thou
art
in
this
world
.
for
thou
art
like
vnto
him
that
slepeth
in
the
see
in
perill
in
a
shippe
:
&
feleth
nothing
ne
knoweth
his
perill
.
after
he
demandeth
fro
whens
comest
thou
that
is
to
saie
behold
caytif
thy
lyf
vnto
this
tyme
.
for
thou
comest
fro
the
tauerne
of
the
deuil
in
the
whiche
thou
hast
wasted
thy
lyf
&
lost
thy
tyme
&
alle
the
goodes
that
god
hath
gyuen
the.
after
he
demandeth
what
doost
thou
.
that
is
to
saye
/
thou
art
feble
toward
thy
body
&
toward
thy
soule
.
thou
wenest
to
be
hole
&
strong
/
&
by
aduenture
thou
hast
at
thy
herte
the
humours
of
infeccion
naturell
whiche
bringeth
the
to
the
deth
of
thy
bodi
And
in
thy
soule
thou
hast
the
humours
of
sinne
whiche
shall
bringe
the
to
the
deth
of
helle
.
yf
the
grace
of
god
rescue
not
the.
after
he
demandeth
whither
goost
thou
.
that
is
to
saie
thynke
&
byholde
thy
gooyng
.
for
thou
goest
to
the
deth
where
thou
shalt
falle
in
to
the
hondes
of
the
deuillis
thou
gooest
to
thy
iugement
where
thou
shalt
fide
the
iustice
so
cruell
so
rightful
&
so
mighty
that
none
may
gainsaie
ne
withstond
it
/
thou
goest
in
to
helle
where
thou
shal
finde
fire
and
thondre
&
many
tormentes
whyche
neuer
shall
leue
the.
ne
cesse
for
to
tormente
the
/
this
doeth
the
holy
ghoost
to
the
synnar
he
openthe
the
eyen
&
maleth
hym
to
see
&
byholde
to fore
&
after
these
ben
the
iiij
bodyes
of
thonder
that
fere
the
synnars
ande
makyth
them
to
tremble
&
to
have
drede
&
these
regardes
ben
the
regarde
of
humylite
whiche
the
yefte
of
drede
bringeth
to
the
herte
of
the
synnar
whan
he
is
vysited
¶
Of
humylite
Capitulo
xxv
Hvmilite
is
a
vertu
that
mocheple
aseth
to
god
of
the
which
saith
seint
berrnard
I
dar
wel
saye
saith
he
that
without
humilite
the
virgyne
marie
had
neuer
pleased
god
She
her self
saith
in
the
magnificat
that
she
made
:
that
god
behelde
more
her
humilite
than
her
virginite
:
for
without
virgynite
may
wel
god
be
pleased
/
but
not
without
humilite
.
yf
thou
remembrest
wel
fro
whens
thou
comest
.
&
knewest
wel
the
pouerte
of
thy
birthe
.
how
thou
hast
be
conceyued
in
sinne
&
of
how
foule
&
vile
matere
thou
hast
be
made
and
fourmed
/
thou
sholdest
haue
no
cause
to
be
proud
▪
Saint
bernard
saith
vnderstond
man
vnderstonde
&
considere
in
the
ende
what
thou
shalt
be
after
thy
deth
.
verily
saith
he
ther
was
a
time
in
whiche
thou
were
not
.
after
thou
were
made
of
vile
matere
/
&
in
a
foule
place
conceyued
.
wher
for
thenne
art
thou
proud
.
for
thou
art
nothynge
but
pouldre
and
asshes
conceyued
in
synne
&
in
miserie
&
liuest
in
peyne
and
deyest
in
grete
sorowe
.
certes
saith
saint
bernard
a
man
is
nothing
but
a
froth
stynking
in
water
ful
of
dung
&
mete
to
wormes
after
that
a
man
is
made
he
be
cometh
wormes
mete
and
ordnre
&
rotynnes
:
and
so
he
cometh
to
nonght
.
Beholde
saith
seint
bernard
in
the
sepultures
of
Emperous
.
of
kinges
&
of
grete
barons
that
haue
ben
what
thou
shalt
finde
there
but
duste
&
stinking
filthe
.
they
were
made
of
suche
matere
as
thou
art
.
and
thou
shalt
be
as
they
ben
certes
yf
thou
consider
wel
the
thinges
byfore
said
thou
shalt
be
humble
of
hert
&
of
dede
&
yf
thou
haue
alle
way
the
eyen
of
thy
hert
toward
thy
sinnes
thy
defaultes
/
&
to
thy
poure
frailte
.
thou
shalt
sette
nothing
by
thy self
ne
preise
thi
self
nothing
/
thenne
thou
shalt
be
grete
tofor
god
.
fo●
very
humilite
cometh
fro
the
herte
.
seint
gregore
sayth
that
as
moche
doth
he
that
gadrith
vertues
without
humilite
as
he
that
weneth
to
gadre
dust
to
fore
the
winde
.
&
seit
austin
saith
that
prid
made
of
angellis
deuills
but.
humilite
made
of
men
angellis
.
Example
.
it
is
redde
in
vitis
patrum
that
on
a
time
th
abbot
marchaire
walked
in
an
halle
.
&
the
deuil
mette
with
him
/
&
supposed
to
haue
smeton
him
with
a
sharp
sithe
that
he
held
in
his
hond
.
but
he
coud
not
.
&
said
to
him
.
machaire
thou
doost
to
me
moche
grief
&
harme
.
certes
said
he
I
faste
&
wake
more
than
thou
doest
/
for
I
neuer
ete
ne
slepe
.
but
only
thy
grete
humilite
ouercometh
me
/
now
take
hede
how
moche
worth
is
humilite
.
¶
Of
shamefastenes
Capitulo
xxvj
Of
humilite
cometh
shamefastnes
whiche
is
a
noble
thig
in
a
persone
that
can
wel
kepe
it
.
seint
bernard
speketh
of
shamefastnes
&
saith
.
O
how
fair
a
thing
is
it
&
shynyng
gemme
of
good
maners
in
the
face
of
an
adolescent
that
is
to
sa
ye
of
yong
peple
a
gemme
is
to
saie
a
precious
stone
.
shamefastnes
saith
he
is
special
glorie
to
kepe
conscience
&
good
renome
siege
&
prouince
of
vertue
preising
of
nature
.
&
signe
of
all
honeste
/
&
saith
yet
I
knowe
nothing
more
curtois
than
shumefastnes
:
and
the
wyse
tulle
saith
that
without
shamefastnes
may
nothing
be
rightful
ne
honeste
:
now
be
thenne
shamefast
&
be
a
shamed
to
be
seen
in
towne
ne
in
comyn
place
without
necessite
and
be
not
stowte
ne
vacabunde
or
sta●●ng
.
but
symple
&
shame
fast
after
th
example
of
the
virgine
marie
whiche
was
troubled
at
the
salutacion
&
coming
of
the
angel
gabriel
/
&
that
cam
of
virginal
shamfastnes
.
&
that
remembrance
cam
to
her
of
prudence
&
of
discrecyon
/
&
that
one
is
nothing
worth
without
that
other
for
ther
ben
som
that
ben
shamfast
of
a
bestial
shamfastnes
that
can
not
kepe
contenance
in
them
for
the
defaulte
of
witte
&
of
prudence
.
&
ther
be
som
that
make
them
wyse
&
saien
without
shame
that
whiche
they
knowe
so
precysely
that
they
be
noyo●
to
eueriche
and
ben
holden
for
foles
.
but
shamefastnes
ought
t●
be
ioined
with
prudence
to
th
ende
that
they
be
shamefast
wysely
and
wyse
shamefastly
.
¶
Of
discrecyon
Ca.
xxvij
Dyscrecion
is
as
who
saith
an
holy
nourrice
&
the
kepar
of
alle
vertue
.
and
it
may
not
be
goten
as
it
is
said
but
by
very
humilyte
It
happeth
ofte
whan
a
persone
hath
doo
grete
peyne
&
grete
dilygence
to
knowe
humilite
&
to
doo
som
good
for
his
saluacyon
the
deuil
the
whiche
is
angry
ther
with
cometh
to
him
for
to
make
him
lese
all
to
his
power
by
vainglorye
.
whiche
he
putteth
in
his
herte
&
saith
to
him
.
now
art
thou
a
good
man
or
a
good
woman
/
for
moche
folk
saye
good
of
the
and
holden
the
for
good
&
humble
&
right
debonayre
.
but
whan
.
thou
seest
the
thus
assailled
thou
oughtest
anon
to
renne
to
discrecyon
&
there
thou
shalt
fynde
iiij
consideracōns
whiche
shal
chace
&
hunte
away
the
deuyl
fro
thyn
herte
The
first
consideracyon
of
thin
owen
byrthe
/
the
ij
is
th
ignoraūce
of
thy
poure
estate
.
for
as
the
doctour
saith
.
ther
is
none
that
knoweth
:
whether
he
is
beloued
of
god
or
not
.
or
in
grace
or
out
of
grace
.
the
iij
cōsideracōn
is
the
remembrauce
of
deth
.
the
iiij
is
th
abydyng
of
the
grete
iugement
/
whan
discrecyon
without
the
whiche
noo
vertue
is
ought
worth
shal
come
to
thy
herte
&
bringe
to
the
these
iiij
consideracōns
.
thenne
thou
maist
wel
thynke
that
the
fende
shal
not
mowe
grieue
the.
for
these
be
iiij
grete
causes
to
holde
thy
herte
in
humilite
.
now
thinke
thenne
on
thy
propre
byrthe
&
condycyn
how
king
dauid
dide
whan
he
said
.
I
am
said
he
a
lityl
worme
&
not
a
man
/
thus
knowleched
he
his
pouerte
&
his
vylete
for
like
as
the
wormes
.
be
vyle
lytil
&
despysed
&
growe
all
of
the
th
erthe
right
so
men
&
wymen
ben
vyl
of
them self
&
of
hyr
propre
frailte
.
for
whan
a
man
entreth
in
to
thys
world
he
bringeth
nothing
with
him
ne
nothing
he
shal
bere
away
.
&
all
naked
he
shal
goo
.
Example
.
It
is
rede
that
saladius
.
Exam
whiche
was
grete
souldan
of
the
sarasins
whan
he
saw
approche
the
houre
of
his
deth
he
dyde
doo
hangevpon
a
spere
the
shete
or
cloth
in
whiche
his
body
shold
be
wrapped
in
&
buried
&
made
it
to
be
born
thurth
the
cyte
and
doo
crie
with
and
hie
wys
.
●oo
here
is
all
that
saladyn
the
gret
souldan
shal
bere
with
him
of
all
his
richesses
whan
he
shal
deye
.
seint
bernard
saith
that
who
shold
wel
beholde
&
take
hede
of
that
whiche
yssueth
out
of
the
eyes
/
of
th●●eres
▪
of
the
nosthrillis
/
of
the
mouth
.
of
the
heeris
of
the
nailles
or
vngles
/
of
hondes
of
feet
&
of
all
other
conduites
of
all
the
body
&
of
all
the
flessh
he
shold
finde
that
ther
is
non
so
vyle
ne
so
stinkyng
as
is
that
whiche
issueth
&
cometh
out
of
the
bodyes
of
men
&
of
wymen
&
as
we
be
oueral
the
body
foul
hooly
/
and
who
that
shold
thinke
wel
how
the
deth
cometh
soone
&
approcheth
pale
and
horrible
cold
&
wan
stinking
and
dredefu
:
&
also
on
them
that
he
hath
loued
wel
whan
the
eyen
shal
be
broken
and
turned
in
the
hede
&
whan
all
the
wyttes
&
alle
the
membres
of
the
body
shal
haue
lost
their
offices
&
the
armes
&
legges
shall
be
stif
cold
&
withdrawen
&
alle
the
body
shal
be
as
a
trōk
deed
&
caroine
whiche
behoueth
anon
to
be
born
to
the
erthe
to
th
ende
that
the
ayer
be
not
therof
corrupt
/
for
to
be
gyuen
to
the
wormes
for
to
be
eten
.
who
that
shold
wel
thynk
heron
shold
neuer
haue
cause
to
be
prowd
¶
Of
the
synne
of
auari●e
capitulo
xxviij
T
is
sinne
of
enuie
whan
one
hath
sorowe
of
the
good
lyf
&
of
the
wele
of
another
to
haue
ioye
of
his
sinne
or
of
his
harme
or
dommage
for
to
detrac●e
&
saie
euyl
of
another
be
hinde
him
to
make
discord
bitwene
them
that
be
frendes
.
The
sinne
of
enuye
is
moche
greuous
&
appropred
to
the
deuil
with
the
synne
of
pryde
.
yf
thou
doo
euyl
.
&
thou
desyr●st
that
other
doo
in
lyke
wise
.
thou
synnest
by
enuye
for
thou
wilt
that
the
other
be
euyl
lyke
to
thy self
.
they
that
haue
good
begynning
to
doo
well
and
to
prouffite
in
the
loue
of
god
.
th
enuious
enforce
them
to
quenche
&
extinkte
them
yf
he
may
/
the
other
that
prouffite
wel
to
god
and
to
the
world
also
th
enuyous
enforce
them
to
hurte
and
hindre
them
to
his
power
they
that
ben
parfight
&
in
grete
estate
&
that
doo
moche
good
&
good
werkes
to
ward
god
and
the
world
.
th
enuious
adressith
his
engins
for
to
destroie
&
hurte
their
goode
loos
and
dedes
for
how
the
good
dede
is
mo
●e
grete
the
more
〈◊〉
sorowe
he
hath
&
therfore
saith
boece
wold
god
that
in
alle
places
▪
tho
enuyous
hadde
eyen
tofore
and
behynde
to
th
ende
that
of
the
good
wele
that
they
sa
we
other
men
haue
they
shold
he
the
more
tormented
.
th
enuyóus
hath
of
custome
yf
he
here
that
one
saith
good
of
ouy
p●one
&
be
knowe
or
hath
herd
ony
harm
of
him
.
for
he
is
right
parfight
&
wel
iuste
that
hath
in
him
non
impfeccōn
.
anon
he
ansuereth
by
grete
enuye
that
certainly
he
is
a
good
man
/
but
he
hath
suche
a
faulte
in
him
this
sinne
is
so
perillous
that
vnneth
may
one
come
to
good
true
repentaunce
.
for
it
he
is
contrarie
to
the
holy
ghoost
whiche
is
fontaine
of
all
good
and
god
saith
in
the
gospel
that
who
sinneth
aienst
the
holy
ghoost
shal
neuer
haue
mercy
in
this
world
ne
in
that
other
for
●e
sinneth
of
his
propre
masice
neuertheles
thou
oughtest
hoolly
to
vnderstonde
that
ther
is
no
sinne
so
grete
but
god
may
pardone
&
forgyne
it
in
this
world
and
in
that
other
who
that
repenteth
him
with
good
herte
but
vnneth
and
with
grete
peiue
that
ony
repenteth
of
suche
sinne
whiche
warreth
to
his
power
aienst
the
holy
goost
&
his
benigne
grace
by
cause
he
warrith
aienst
spirituel
good
like
as
the
iewes
warred
aienst
our
lord
for
the
good
dedes
&
werkes
that
he
dide
Of
the
sinnes
aienst
the
holy
ghoost
/
C.
xxix
Thou
ougtest
to
knowe
that
the
vi
sinnes
aienst
the
holy
ghoost
&
that
be
specially
aienst
his
grace
:
the
first
is
presumpcion
by
whiche
a
man
is
bolder
to
sinne
for
hope
of
light
&
soon
forgiuenes
&
so
maketh
the
merci
of
god
ocasion
more
to
offende
him
this
is
pr●sūpcōn
whiche
maketh
a
man
to
misknowe
&
mis vse
the
grace
of
the
holighost
:
the
ij
is
despair
or
wāhop
whiche
taketh
a
way
the
gretenes
of
goddis
mercy
like
as
doeth
presumpcion
his
iustice
as
thou
hast
of
cain
whan
god
blamed
him
by
cause
he
had
slayn
his
brother
abel
he
ansured
mi
wikednes
is
so
grete
that
I
shal
not
mowe
haue
●dōe
ne
foryeuenes
but
saint
bernard
repreueth
him
&
saith
thou
best
caim
for
if
thou
haddest
asked
pradon
And
mercy
of
our
lord
he
had
giuen
it
to
the
&
iudas
offended
more
our
lord
of
that
¶
he
was
so
in
despair
than
of
that
he
betraied
him
to
the
deth
.
Thei●●
is
abstynacion
that
is
hadrnes
of
herte
whan
a
man
wilfully
&
of
purpose
disposeth
him
to
fyxe
in
his
malyce
.
that
he
wil
nat
be
enclined
by
ony
auctorite
or
reason
to
be
turned
fro
hysmys
opynion
as
ege
as
was
whiche
said
to
saint
andrew
I
wil
paciently
here
the
but
what
euer
thou
saye
yf
thou
wilt
not
here
&
obeye
me
I
shal
crucyfie
the
/
the
iiij
is
despite
of
penance
.
that
is
whan
a
man
hath
purpose
in
his
herte
/
that
he
shal
neuer
repente
him
of
his
sinne
:
and
soo
contynueth
in
dede
to
th
ende
of
his
lyf
/
&
this
is
moste
ꝓprely
sinne
in
the
holy
ghost
.
the
v
is
for
to
warre
&
deffamethe
grace
of
the
holy
ghoost
in
another
lyke
thou
hast
herd
to
fore
The
vj
to
warre
ayenst
trouthe
wetyngly
.
and
specyally
the
trouthe
of
the
cristen
faith
Alle
these
sinnes
ben
ayenst
the
holy
ghoost
.
&
they
be
so
grete
that
vennethe
ony
cometh
to
amendement
.
and
therfore
ben
they
with
grete
peyne
foryeuen
&
pardoned
:
Example
.
It
is
rede
in
the
lyf
of
faders
that
on
a
tyme
the
abbot
moyses
satte
with
his
brethern
/
&
euerich
demaunded
of
him
of
theyr
thoughtes
and
he
gat
to
eche
of
them
an
ansuere
.
ther
was
an
auncient
abbot
whiche
was
moche
enuious
whiche
said
to
him
:
abbot
moises
thou
art
lyke
a
comyn
woman
whiche
a
rayeth
her
for
to
drawe
men
for
to
come
&
sinne
with
her
.
moyses
ansuered
to
him
thou
saist
trouthe
god
hath
shewd
it
to
the
The
other
said
/
moises
thy
body
is
all
ful
of
venim
/
moises
ansuerd
to
him
thou
saist
trouthe
abbot
.
for
thou
seest
that
whiche
is
without
forth
only
/
but
and
yf
thou
sa
west
that
whiche
is
within
me
/
thou
sholdest
yet
saie
werse
.
After
this
said
one
of
his
brethern
to
him
.
moises
faire
fader
art
not
thou
troubled
in
thy self
:
of
that
whiche
this
olde
abbot
saith
to
the.
he
said
to
hym
noo
veraily
.
for
I
am
suche
within
forth
as
Iam
without
forth
and
therfore
I
am
not
angry
ne
troubled
¶
Of
the
yefte
of
pyte
ayenst
enuye
.
Cápitulo
xxx
THe
second
yeft
of
the
holy
ghoost
is
the
yeft
of
pite
that
is
proprely
a
dewe
&
a
triacle
ayenst
alle
felonnye
&
specially
ay●nst
the
sinne
of
enuyè
for
this
yefte
exsti●peth
&
pluketh
out
the
rote
of
enuye
and
heleth
it
parfightly
/
thenne
the
herte
that
receyueth
a
dewe
of
swetnes
whiche
maketh
it
to
germe
a
rote
swete
and
wel
attempred
that
is
the
good
loue
of
the
herte
wherof
groweth
a
faire
tree
and
an
hye
bering
right
good
fruyt
that
is
a
vertue
good
and
faire
whiche
is
called
mansuetude
or
benygnyte
that
is
swetnes
of
herte
whiche
maketh
a
man
swete
&
de●●nnai●
.
charitable
louing
/
&
amiable
for
it
maketh
a
man
parfightly
to
loue
his
neighbour
as
him self
as
we
haue
said
tofore
¶
Of
the
synne
of
yre
Capitulo
xxxj
There
is
a
good
ire
whan
one
is
angry
ayenst
euyl
or
ay
enst
defaulte
of
another
.
&
that
is
no
sinne
/
but
ther
is
another
euil
yre
whiche
maketh
murmure
aienst
god
.
or
to
despite
god
.
his
moder
and
his
sainctes
.
and
that
is
callyd
blasphemie
.
yf
a
man
shold
saie
blasphemie
or
vylanie
of
the
kyng
or
the
quene
as
is
said
of
god
or
of
our
lady
he
shold
be
greuously
punisshed
/
an
holy
man
saith
Alas
how
grete
yre
is
it
to
swere
and
to
forswere
and
seie
blasphemye
of
god
/
for
whyche
many
deye
of
sodeyn
deth
:
.
Example
.
saint
gregore
wherreth
Exam
in
his
dyaloge
/
that
ther
was
at
rome
a
burgeys
whiche
had
a
sone
of
v
yere
of
eage
whom
he
loued
merueylloussy
&
nourrisshed
hym
mothe
tenderly
this
child
had
a
right
euil
custome
for
whan
ony
thyng
cam
to
him
ayenst
his
will
anon
he
wold
swere
horribly
by
our
lordis
body
and
his
membres
&
his
fader
chastised
him
not
therfore
.
it
happed
that
this
child
was
seke
vnto
the
deth
:
and
his
fader
helde
hym
in
his
lappe
.
The
chyld
sawe
the
deuillis
how
they
cam
to
his
deth
and
began
to
crie
lowd
:
put
away
fader
.
put
them
away
.
&
so
saieng
hydde
hisvisage
in
the
lappe
of
his
fader
his
fadedermanded
hym
what
it
was
that
he
sawe
&
he
ansuered
that
he
saw
the
deuillis
coming
for
to
take
him
.
&
so
saieng
he
began
to
saye
blasphemye
of
our
lord
like
as
he
had
be
tofore
acustomed
.
&
anon
he
deide
sodaily
.
&
god
shewde
to
his
fader
/
wherfor
he
so
deyd
&
for
●
sinne
he
was
deliuered
to
the
deuillis
for
by
cause
that
his
fader
dyd
not
correcte
hym
he
was
so
acustomed
:
that
at
the
deth
he
sette
nothing
ther
by
.
and
therfore
god
pugnisshed
hym
.
now
beholde
thenne
what
god
shall
doo
of
them
that
b●n
in
grete
age
that
aduysedly
&
wetyngly
blaspheme
so
almighty
god
.
whan
he
punisshed
in
suche
manere
a
child
of
v
yere
of
age
.
Item
to
swere
by
the
blod
of
god
:
or
by
his
bely
.
or
by
semblable
othes
it
is
right
grete
sinne
.
also
for
yre
&
angre
som
despeyren
&
gyue
them self
to
the
deuil
/
Item
for
yre
&
angre
to
doo
harme
&
hnrte
to
other
in
dysfaming
them
whiche
is
werse
than
to
robbe
hym
how
wel
that
the
euil
that
one
saith
be
trouthe
.
also
he
that
leyeth
hond
on
prest
or
clerk
he
is
ex●●mi●ed
&
acursed
by
the
lawe
canon
.
&
alle
that
letten
euilly
the
iu●sdiction
of
holy
chyrche
ben
acursed
by
the
lawe
.
Of
yre
growe
homicides
that
is
to
saie
manslawhter
.
clamours
.
indignacōns
.
ranconrs
whiche
abyden
att
herte
medled
with
hate
/
grete
desire
of
vengeance
/
and
mortall
warres
emong
frendes
wherof
growen
ouer
grete
harmes
&
hurtes
whiche
may
not
be
guarisshed
ne
amended
.
Example
Saynt
gregore
reherseth
in
his
dialogue
that
ther
was
a
nonne
whiche
was
so
angry
that
in
what
place
she
was
she
moeued
alle
way
rancour
plees
and
debates
It
happed
that
she
deyde
and
was
buryed
in
the
chyrche
the
nyght
after
.
that
she
was
buryed
.
the
kepar
of
the
chirche
by
grace
of
god
sawe
that
she
was
brought
byfore
the
hye
aulter
&
was
departed
in
the
body
&
one
parte
was
brent
wyth
fyre
And
that
other
abode
hool
/
On
the
morn
he
recounted
this
to
the
freres
which
comen
to
fore
the
hye
aulter
wher
she
had
be
brent
▪
and
fonde
the
place
also
brent
as
yf
the
body
had
ben
visybly
brent
¶
Of
the
yefte
of
scyence
ayenst
wrath
&
yre
Ca.
xxxij
THe
thirde
yefte
of
the
holy
ghoost
maketh
a
man
clere
seyng
.
&
therfore
it
is
called
the
yefte
of
science
▪
for
it
maketh
a
man
wise
by
mesure
in
all
thinges
.
this
yeft
whan
it
descen
deth
to
the
hert
it
plucketh
&
casteth
out
the
rote
of
the
synne
of
¶
yre
and
of
felonie
whiche
troubleth
the
herte
&
maketh
the
man
all
fro
him self
in
suche
wise
that
he
seeth
nothing
for
to
conduite
him self
ne
none
other
but
this
yefte
enlumineth
the
herte
of
the
man
on
alle
parties
so
that
he
may
not
be
deceyued
of
non
other
.
like
as
the
yeft
of
pyte
maketh
him
innocent
right
so
wyl
he
deceyue
non
other
saint
Johan
saith
in
th
apocalyps
that
he
sawe
in
spirite
that
the
holy
men
whiche
were
ful
of
this
yefte
were
all
ful
of
vertues
byfore
and
byhynde
.
this
yefte
is
the
maister
of
the
hertes
that
is
to
saie
of
the
vertues
of
the
soule
for
he
hath
ordeined
alle
thynges
to
poynt
and
by
rule
¶
Of
the
synne
of
slouthe
Capitulo
xxxiij
THe
holy
scripture
saith
that
tofore
alle
werkes
thou
oughtest
in
the
morning
whan
thou
risest
to
yelde
thankings
to
god
of
his
benefaites
and
to
blysse
the
with
the
signe
of
the
crosse
.
&
to
crie
him
mercy
in
very
repentance
of
all
thy
synnes
/
&
at
the
nyght
whan
thou
gooest
to
thy
bedde
in
lyke
wyse
It
is
slouthe
for
to
be
ydle
and
to
waste
the
tyme
in
vanite
for
al
our
tyme
our
lord
shal
demaunde
of
vs
strait
acomptes
&
rekeninge
atte
day
of
iugement
.
&
on
what
good
we
haue
enployed
our
time
.
&
therfore
admonesteth
vssaint
iherome
that
we
doo
s●m
good
to
th
ende
that
the
denyl
finde
vs
occupied
&
thenne
he
shal
flee
fro
vs
.
for
truly
ouer
many
euillis
comen
by
ydlenes
Example
Exam
/
By
cause
that
they
of
sodome
and
gomor
weren
comynly
idle
&
dyde
nothing
they
fylle
in
the
synne
ayenst
nature
.
wherof
they
we●e
grenously
pugnisshed
.
Saint
bernard
saith
that
ther
is
nothing
so
precious
for
our
sauacion
.
as
the
tyme
&
the
good
that
we
mowe
doo
in
this
litil
&
miserable
lyf
by
whyche
we
shal
haue
heuen
whiche
is
the
lyf
perdurable
.
Item
it
is
slouthe
whan
god
warneth
to
doo
som
good
whiche
thou
maist
doo
/
And
thou
doest
it
not
.
Also
to
forgete
the
goode
dedes
and
the
synnes
that
thou
hast
doon
.
For
god
forgeteth
them
not
ne
the
deuil
also
¶
Example
we
rede
that
saynt
Exam
Austin
on
a
day
studied
.
&
sawe
passe
by
hym
the
deuil
whyche
bare
a
grete
boke
vpon
his
sholdres
he
comanded
him
to
telle
him
what
was
in
that
boke
/
the
deuyl
said
these
ben
the
synnes
that
the
peple
hath
forgete
:
he
demanded
saieng
ben
ther
ony
that
I
haue
forgeten
in
tyme
passed
.
The
deuyl
shewd
to
hym
his
boke
.
and
fonde
noo
synne
that
he
had
forgeten
sanf
only
that
on
a
tyme
he
had
seid
●o
complyn
Thenne
seint
Austin
comanded
hym
that
he
shold
abyde
.
and
anon
he
entryd
in
to
the
chyrche
and
said
wel
and
deuoutely
his
complin
and
after
come
again
to
the
deuill
/
and
bad
him
to
shewe
him
his
boke
ther
as
was
wreton
the
default
of
his
complin
.
the
deuil
serched
&
fond
it
all
wid
&
scraped
out
there
as
was
wreton
the
deffault
of
his
complin
.
thenne
he
said
to
saint
augstin
that
he
repented
that
he
had
shewd
him
his
boke
.
For
by
the
vertu
of
thy
prayers
thou
hast
put
away
thy
synne
.
It
is
slouthe
not
to
praye
to
god
/
and
not
to
doo
his
deuoir
for
the
d●ed
bodies
as
he
is
bound
to
doo
/
ne
to
doo
:
truly
his
dayly
werke
whan
he
werketh
for
an
other
man
/
&
not
to
take
hede
to
the
prayers
that
be
said
for
yf
thou
take
non
entencion
to
them
.
god
taketh
none
hede
to
them
not
to
withdrawe
another
fro
euyl
doing
to
his
power
to
flee
and
goo
fro
the
prechyng
&
sermons
.
for
that
is
a
signe
that
he
is
not
on
goodes
half
.
that
gladly
hereth
not
the
word
of
god
for
ther
he
may
here
moche
good
to
doo
wel
.
&
correcte
&
chastyse
him self
fro
many
euillis
/
&
alle
way
he
may
lerne
.
Example
.
we
rede
of
a
riche
&
noble
clerke
the
whiche
liued
Exam
moche
deliciously
/
and
wold
not
gladly
here
the
sermons
for
drede
that
he
shold
here
somthing
.
for
the
whiche
he
shold
entre
into
religion
/
for
he
felte
himself
lightly
for
to
be
conuerted
it
happeth
that
a
frere
prechour
▪
cam
to
him
in
to
his
chambre
in
whiche
he
had
a
moche
fair
bedde
&
wel
araied
.
anon
as
he
sa
we
him
he
said
to
him
/
frere
ye
be
right
welcom
but
I
praye
you
preche
nothing
to
me
▪
&
he
promised
him
he
wold
not
whan
they
had
spoken
to geder
of
many
thinges
the
frere
wold
haue
goon
his
way
&
said
to
him
size
I
haue
promised
to
you
that
I
shold
not
preche
to
you
.
&
so
I
wyll
not
/
but
I
praye
you
¶
whan
ye
be
leyed
doun
in
this
fair
bedde
/
that
ye
wyl
remember
how
the
poure
soules
beleyed
in
the
fyre
of
purgatone
.
And
ther
wyth
he
departed
:
whan
the
clerke
was
leyed
donn
in
his
fair
bedde
he
myght
neither
slepe
ne
reste
whan
he
remembred
the
wordes
that
the
prechour
had
said
to
hym
On
the
morn
whan
he
was
rysen
he
gaf
all
that
he
had
for
the
loue
of
god
&
entred
in
to
relygyon
:
&
after
was
an
holy
man
/
Now
seest
thou
how
it
is
good
to
here
the
word
of
god
/
It
is
slouthe
whan
thou
goost
not
gladly
ne
with
a
good
wyll
to
chirche
.
For
it
is
the
first
thyng
that
thou
oughtest
to
doo
whan
thou
art
rysen
out
of
thy
bedde
for
to
recomande
the
to
god
/
&
in
good
trouthe
thou
&
all
thy
werkes
&
besynesses
shall
fare
the
better
yf
thou
so
doo
.
Example
Eleazar
Exam
whyche
was
patriarke
of
alexandrie
recounteth
of
two
corde
waners
whiche
were
gossybs
&
liueden
by
their
crafte
.
That
one
was
right
a
good
werke
man
and
had
not
grete
meiney
in
his
hous
.
and
was
alle
way
poure
.
&
alle
way
he
cessed
not
to
werke
/
That
other
was
no
good
werkman
&
had
a
grete
houshold
and
grete
meiney
.
but
be
doubted
moche
our
lord
god
.
and
was
alleway
riche
.
hit
happed
that
the
pour●
cordowaner
said
to
the
riche
Thou
muste
nedes
be
a
theef
:
for
I
am
better
werkman
than
thou
.
&
am
alle
way
poure
.
&
thou
art
riche
.
that
other
ansuerd
to
hym
softely
/
brother
knowe
for
certayn
that
I
haue
founden
a
place
/
where
ther
is
a
grete
tresour
.
yf
thou
wilt
swere
that
thou
shal
kepe
it
secret
I
shal
lede
the
thyder
On
the
morn
they
aroos
tofore
day
and
went
forth
tofore
the
chyrche
.
and
the
riche
man
said
to
the
poure
late
vs
entre
first
in
to
the
chirche
.
and
late
vs
praye
to
god
that
he
kepe
vs
fro
doyng
ony
thing
by
whyche
we
may
take
harme
/
they
entred
in
to
the
chirche
/
and
herde
the
masse
and
the
semyde
.
and
anon
after
it
was
clere
day
.
Thenne
the
riche
man
said
to
the
poure
.
Late
vs
now
goo
home
to
our
houses
tyl
another
tyme
and
he
said
further
more
.
brother
know
thou
for
certayn
that
I
haue
founden
non
other
tresour
but
the
chirche
&
I
truste
●e●●li
that
if
thou
frequente
and
vse
it
.
thou
shal
be
as
riche
as
I
am
.
And
thus
the
poure
cord
w●nn●r
bycam
moche
riche
after
whan
he
frequented
the
chyrche
and
the
sermons
.
¶
Of
Prayer
C
xxxiiij
THou
ought●st
to
knowe
that
in
alle
places
and
in
alle
werkes
one
may
.
and
ought
to
praye
and
serue
gode
.
but
most
specyally
in
the
chirche
.
for
as
the
scripture
saith
The
monasten
or
chirche
is
called
the
house
of
prayer
.
whan
thou
goest
to
chyrche
for
to
praye
to
god
.
thou
oughtest
to
putte
foo
thyn
herte
/
alle
erthely
afflyc●ions
for
to
take
the
better
hede
and
entente
to
praye
vnto
god
.
¶
Example
it
is
redde
of
a
Exam
grete
clerke
that
sold
alle
that
he
hadde
:
and
gaaf
all
for
the
loue
of
god
to
then
de
that
he
myght
the
better
take
hede
and
ent●
de
to
prayer
.
and
reteyned
nothyng
to
hym self
/
sanf
only
an
as
se
for
to
bere
hym
fro
toun
to
toun
for
to
presche
omtyme
whan
he
preched
or
song
masse
or
sayd
hys
orysons
and
prayers
.
all
way
he
thought
on
his
asse
.
and
doubted
that
he
shold
be
●●olen
or
that
the
wulf
shold
ete
hym
.
whan
he
sawe
that
〈◊〉
was
so
troubled
/
he
sold
his
asse
.
&
gaaf
the
money
therof
for
gooddes
sake
.
to
then
de
that
he
myght
the
better
make
hys
prayeres
.
thou
oughtest
to
saie
thy
prayers
.
softe
and
●tylly
.
to
th
ende
that
the
deuyl
enforce
hym
not
to
lette
the
/
ne
that
he
here
them
.
seynt
●er
nard
saith
that
one
maye
better
and
more
deuoutly
saie
his
prap●rs
by
nyghte
whan
alle
thynges
ben
at
reste
.
than
by
daye
For
th●nne
one
is
not
so
moche
troubled
of
worldly
thynges
as
he
is
on
the
daye
tyme
Thou
oughtest
to
haue
stedfast
faith
that
thou
shalt
gete
that
whyche
thou
demandest
:
yf
thou
demande
thyng
resonable
.
For
saynt
James
saith
that
he
that
doub●●h
geteth
nothyng
and
g●d
sayth
that
/
that
thyng
whyche
we
demande
we
shal
hane
.
yf
we
perseuere
/
and
be
nothyng
abass
hyd
yf
thou
haue
not
anon
that
whiche
thou
demandest
:
For
saint
Austyn
saith
that
god
giueth
not
to
vs
anon
that
whicherayed
hou
demandest
.
For
saint
austyn
saith
that
god
gyueth
not
〈◊〉
vs
anone
that
we
our
lord
that
he
wolde
hele
hir
doughter
the
first
time
he
ansuerde
not
ande
she
perseurede
all
way
bysecrequyre
.
how
w●●
it
be
thyng
resonable
Exam
to
th
ende
that
we
require
hym
more
ardāntly
/
Example
we
rede
and
haue
in
the
holi
scupture
of
the.
woman
of
canane
whiche
phyng
our
lord
deuontl●
our
lord
ans●erd
to
hyt
that
it
was
not
good
to
yeue
the
breed
of
chyldren
wnto
dogges
/
he
calsede
the
breede
the
wordes
of
sauanon
ande
the
chyldren
them
of
Israel
and
▪
the
dogges
the
paynems
/
bi
cause
thry
were
hethen
/
but
how
welle
that
by
the
grace
of
god
she
vnderstode
wel
his
wordes
she
ne
●essid
not
for
to
praye
.
and
told
to
him
that
he
said
trouth
/
but
she
said
that
the
smale
houndes
eten
ofte
of
the
cro●●mes
that
fylle
fro
the
table
of
their
lord
/
whan
our
lord
sawe
hir
humylyde
and
that
she
compared
hir
to
lytyl
houndes
.
and
perseuerd
a●e
way
on
hir
request
.
he
ansuerd
to
her
and
said
.
O
woman
thou
hast
grete
faith
▪
thy
prayer
is
graunted
.
And
anon
hyr
doughter
was
hool
.
For
the
doctour
saith
.
not
in
rennyng
.
but
in
perseuering
the
guerdon
is
gyuen
.
And
saint
Gregore
saith
that
it
is
not
vertue
for
welle
to
begynne
/
but
to
acomplissh
&
well
to
perseuere
.
Thou
oughtest
to
praye
our
lord
in
grete
reuerence
.
and
with
thyn
herte
.
for
he
saith
by
the
prophete
:
The
peple
praye
me
with
their
mouth
.
but
the
herte
is
ferre
fro
me
/
It
pleaseth
not
to
him
the
presumpcion
of
somme
that
goon
to
him
boldely
as
familier
&
frende
/
but
he
wil
how
wel
that
thou
be
grete
and
parfyght
that
thou
goo
to
him
in
recording
&
in
grete
confusion
of
thy
synnes
in
grete
drede
and
in
grete
reuerence
as
to
a
grete
lord
and
that
thou
beholde
the
hyenes
of
hym
:
and
hys
grete
puissaunce
.
and
after
take
hede
and
see
thy
lytylnesse
and
thy
pouerte
thy
feblenes
corporall
and
spirituell
And
thou
oughtest
to
saye
humbly
I
am
not
worthy
to
lifte
myn
eyen
toward
heuen
for
cause
of
my
synnes
.
by
whiche
I
haue
ofte
displeaseth
the
/
But
lord
I
that
fere
and
drede
thy
Justise
and
pnissaunce
haue
recours
to
thy
grete
m●rcy
whyche
for
the
synners
woldest
suffre
thy self
to
deye
&
I
praye
the
that
to
me
poure
synnar
thou
wylt
shewe
and
doo
thy
grate
how
be
it
I
am
not
worthy
.
that
thou
behold
me
with
the
eyen
of
thy
grete
mercy
.
Atte
lefte
wnchesauf
fro
ferre
to
vysite
and
conforte
me
in
all
my
necessytees
and
my
werkes
/
seint
austin
sayth
that
or●sō
and
prayer
is
to
the
man
an
holy
defence
to
hys
good
angel
solace
.
to
the
deuil
torment
.
and
to
god
agreable
seruyce
/
and
delyte
not
the
to
make
thy
prayers
to
god
ne
to
saye
wordes
polysshed
as
somme
doon
:
For
saynt
The
rome
saith
that
it
is
more
auayllable
to
saye
vij
psalmes
in
deuocyon
than
all
the
psaulter
in
heuynes
and
ennoye
.
And
therfore
made
our
lord
the
pater
noster
lytyl
and
short
to
th
ende
that
it
shold
be
sayde
wyth
the
better
wyll
and
deuoutly
/
¶
Thou
oughtest
to
know
that
two
thynges
letten
prayer
as
sayth
saynt
Ysodere
/
that
is
or
by
cause
that
one
cesse
not
to
doo
euil
.
or
ellys
that
one
pardone
not
ne
forgyue
hys
euyl
wylle
or
male
talent
For
lyke
as
it
is
longe
or
the
wound
be
heled
and
may
not
auayle
to
the
guarysshynge
as
longe
as
the
yron
is
wythin
So
in
lyke
wyse
prayer
auaylleth
nothyng
to
hym
ne
proffyteth
as
longe
as
he
hath
euyll
at
his
herte
/
Saynt
James
sayth
that
moche
auailleth
the
besy
prayer
of
a
ryghtwys
man
¶
.
Example
we
rede
in
the
holy
scrypture
in
the
thyrd
boke
Exam
of
kynges
that
Helye
the
prophete
whiche
was
a
man
and
passyble
as
we
be
.
For
the
synne
of
a
chas
kyng
of
Israel
why
the
synned
moche
gretely
ayenst
our
lord
:
and
made
the
peple●o
synne
.
he
prayed
our
lord
that
it
shold
not
rayne
ne
dewe
on
the
erthe
.
And
so
he
dyde
not
by
thespace
of
thre
yere
and
sy●e
mo
nethes
.
and
after
he
prayede
to
our
lord
to
sende●
them
rayne
.
¶
And
the
heuen
gaaf
raine
and
to
th
erthe
fruyt
/
by
whyche
thou
maist
se
that
moche
auaylleth
prayer
of
a
good
persone
.
Exam
Somme
ther
be
that
for
their
hye
syngyng
wene
to
psease
moche
god
.
¶
Example
/
It
is
redde
that
in
a
monasterye
of
Cy●●e●uly
.
ōn
a
tyme
at
matin●s
one
had
begon
a
psalme
in
a
mene
/
And
in
that
poynt
and
tune
the
olde
men
contynued
.
And
ther
was
a
yong
monke
whiche
was
prowd
which
lyfte
vp
his
wis
aboue
the
other
.
And
how
wel
that
the
auncyent
men
/
wold
haue
kept
styl
contrary
to
him
.
yet
some
of
the
yong
monkes
susteined
theyr
note
&
point
in
suche
wyse
that
the
olde
men
were
still
/
but
anon
yssued
out
of
the
mouth
of
the
yonge
monke
lyke
an
hoot
yr●n
all
rede
/
and
it
transported
to
them
that
had
holpen
him
Thys
is
aienst
them
that
synge
more
by
presumpcyon
than
by
deuocyon
And
therfore
saith
saint
austin
alle
the
tyme
that
I
me
dely●ed
more
in
the
songe
than
in
the
wordes
and
scrupture
that
I
songe
.
I
contesse
that
so
oftymes
I
synned
greuously
/
¶
Example
.
It
is
redde
of
a
Exam
symple
woman
that
ofte
wente
to
the
chyrche
.
The
preste
of
the
chirche
had
a
●ght
euyl
wis
.
And
alle
way
whan
he
songe
this
woman
wepte
The
p●●●ste
sawe
that
she
wepte
and
had
supposed
that
she
wepte
for
his
faire
syngyng
.
&
enforced
hym
to
synge
the
more
hyer
and
lowde
:
and
more
strongly
that
he
●onge
:
the
more
the
woman
wepte
The
preste
myght
not
lenger
tarye
but
went
to
her
for
to
demaunde
wherfore
she
wepte
in
the
chy
.
●●x
/
whan
he
songe
/
Alas
syre
said
she
I
ought
wel
to
wepe
.
For
I
hadde
an
asse
that
dyde
to
me
moche
good
labour
whom
I
haue
loste
.
and
me
semeth
whan
I
here
you
singe
/
that
it
is
he
.
The
preste
whiche
supposed
to
haue
had
p●●ysyng
departed
and
wente
his
way
all
confused
and
mocqued
¶
Thys
is
aienst
them
that
in
theyr
syngyng
loke
more
after
loange
and
preysyng
of
the
world
than
of
our
lord
Example
It
is
redde
that
in
an
abbaye
where
as
saint
benet
deyde
ther
was
a
monk
whiche
had
a
right
good
wis
&
it
happed
that
Exam
in
the
vygille
of
Ester
.
he
blessyd
the
taper
of
waye
/
and
of
his
wis
resowned
a
melodie
so
swete
that
it
semed
to
alle
them
that
herde
it
that
it
had
ben
the
wis
of
an
angel
:
whan
the
paskall
was
blessyd
.
the
monk
was
neuer
seen
after
.
and
it
is
sup
posed
that
it
was
for
that
he
gloryfyed
hym self
ouermoche
in
his
songe
and
thys
is
ayenst
them
that
glorifye
them self
ouer
moche
in
theyr
songe
▪
Of
them
that
speke
in
the
chyrche
whan
they
shold
praye
god
/
Capitulo
xxxv
IT
is
slouthe
whan
thou
art
in
the
chyrche
&
oughtest
to
praye
god
&
thou
troublest
and
lettest
other
.
For
the
wyse
man
sayth
that
anon
as
thou
art
in
the
chyrche
.
thou
oughtest
to
remembre
wherfore
thou
art
made
a
man
thou
oughtest
to
rede
&
synge
yf
thou
can
or
praye
to
god
to
thy
power
.
many
ther
be
that
doo
nothing
but
●angle
and
destrouble
other
and
lette
them
and
they
doo
many
harmes
.
¶
Example
/
It
is
redde
Exam
that
on
a
tyme
saint
martin
sang
masse
and
saint
bryxis
helped
▪
him
whiche
sawe
behynd
the
aulter
the
deuil
whiche
wrote
synnes
that
meu
dyde
in
the
chyrche
as
in
lawhyng
in
spekkyng
and
in
lettyng
the
dyuyne
seruyce
and
offyce
.
so
it
happed
whan
he
had
moche
wreton
/
he
had
not
ynowgh
of
parch●min
for
to
wryte
yet
more
that
was
doon
And
he
drewe
out
the
parchemin
with
his
teeth
so
strongly
that
it
brake
and
knocked
his
heede
ayenst
the
walle
And
whan
saint
bryxis
sawe
that
he
began
to
lawhe
moche
strongly
whan
saint
martyn
had
ended
the
masse
he
blamed
him
by
cause
he
had
lawhed
in
the
chirche
Saint
bryxys
told
to
hym
the
cause
and
saint
martin
coniured
the
deuyl
.
that
he
shold
saye
to
hym
all
that
he
had
wreton
the
whiche
said
to
hym
that
it
were
the
sinnes
that
were
doon
in
the
chyrche
.
saint
martyn
preched
this
to
the
peple
/
And
they
confessed
them
of
their
synnes
/
And
so
the
deuyl
was
constrayned
to
defface
and
strike
out
all
that
he
had
wreton
.
An other
Example
.
it
is
redde
of
an
old
woman
that
whan
she
was
Exam
in
the
chirche
she
lawhed
alleway
m●rmured
&
letted
her
fels
wes
to
saie
their
ousons
&
prayers
.
how
wel
that
in
other
thinges
she
kept
her self
right
wel
●oo
sinne
whan
she
was
d●ed
all
the
membres
of
his
body
were
found
fayre
and
clene
sauf
the
tongue
/
for
ther
yssued
out
of
hir
mouth
a
grete
serpent
wyht
a
grete
multitude
of
toothes
whiche
gnawed
vpon
her
tongue
¶
Of
euyl
spending
the
tyme
Capitulo
xxxv
IT
is
slouthe
as
we
haue
tofore
said
to
occupie
the
tyme
in
folie
.
for
it
shal
neuer
be
recouered
:
Example
A
relygio●
persone
of
clereuauly
reherceth
that
an
holy
man
herd
a
wys
whiche
playned
him
merueillously
And
he
demaunded
what
him
eyeled
.
&
he
ansuerd
to
him
that
he
was
a
soule
dampned
whiche
complained
his
dampnacyon
&
saide
that
the
thing
why
the
most
tormented
the
dampned
sowles
▪
is
the
tyme
that
they
haue
loste
and
euyll
spended
in
this
world
.
for
they
myght
wel
haue
doon
so
moche
good
that
they
myght
haue
had
the
lyf
●e●durable
the
whiche
they
haue
loste
by
theyr
neglygence
of
this
synne
ben
not
quyte
the
hunters
ne
hawkers
whiche
wast
the
yr
tyme
in
suche
vanitees
.
&
despende
the
goodes
that
god
hath
lente
to
them
in
dogges
and
hawkes
wherof
they
shal
rendre
&
yelde
strayt
a
comptes
atte
the
day
of
Jugement
&
many
tymes
they
leue
to
serue
god
wherof
they
shal
in
th
ende
be
right
greuously
punisshed
.
the
holy
canon
saith
that
it
is
not
found
in
holy
spripture
that
ony
hunter
was
euer
saued
ne
saintifyed
And
saith
yet
more
that
he
that
seeth
the
hunter
&
delyteth
him
therin
that
he
shal
see
our
lord
in
grete
angre
.
Example
A
doctour
whiche
was
called
peter
de
clugny
reherceth
of
an
holy
man
whiche
was
in
his
prayer
on
the
good
fryday
the
whyche
was
rauysshed
in
spyrite
vnto
ester
day
and
said
that
he
had
seen
in
purgatorie
a
knyght
whiche
had
b●n
in
his
lyf
a
chaste
man
.
a
good
almes
man
.
and
of
good
lyf
.
but
he
had
loued
ouer
moche
the
disporte
of
hawkyng
.
and
therfore
he
had
lyke
an
hawk
whiche
tyred
and
ete
his
hondes
&
merue●lously
was
therwith
tormented
/
Of
thys
synne
be
not
quyte
they
that
wast
the
time
in
ioustes
and
tournoys
.
¶
.
Example
we
rede
of
a
knyghte
Exam
that
frequented
and
vsed
gladly
the
ioustes
and
tournoyes
:
but
he
supoosed
that
suche
games
had
be
not
synne
.
For
he
was
deuoute
ynough
toward
our
lord
:
a
preehar
cam
&
said
to
hym
that
out
of
these
games
yssued
the.
vij
dedely
synnes
/
First
that
is
the
sinne
of
pryde
.
for
it
is
not
doo
but
for
vayne
gloyre
and
for
to
haue
.
preysyng
of
the
world
/
Item
it
is
enuye
for
all
way
that
one
hath
enuye
vpon
that
other
by
cause
he
iousteth
better
&
is
more
habyle
in
armes
than
that
other
:
Item
it
is
synne
of
yre
&
of
wrath
.
for
somtyme
that
one
hurteth
or
sleeth
that
other
by
wrath
.
Item
it
is
slouthe
for
it
is
tyme
lost
and
is
nothynge
but
vanite
.
Item
it
is
auarice
for
oftymes
they
take
and
raunson
one
that
other
and
take
f●o
them
theyr
hors
and
theyr
harn●
ys
&
make
somtyme
●heuyssaunce
and
grete
extorcōns
to
their
subiettes
for
to
make
theyr
games
&
es●atementes
/
Item
it
is
glotonnye
for
in
suche
games
be
made
grete
mangeries
.
banckettis
/
&
grete
dispenses
not
only
of
theyr
owne
but
of
theyr
subgettis
.
Item
it
is
synne
of
lecherye
for
many
tymes
for
t●
playse
theyr
loues
&
concubynes
they
enforce
them
gretely
and
somtyme
as
they
saye
they
bere
th
enseines
&
tokenes
of
their
folyssh
ladyes
and
loues
/
And
for
the
euyllys
that
ben
doon
&
ensie
we
therof
holy
chyrche
hath
ordeyned
that
they
that
deyen
in
suche
games
of
what
estate
they
be
they
shal
not
be
buryed
in
crysten
b●riels
And
yf
for
doubte
or
for
loue
they
be
buried
in
cristen
buryels
it
shold
be
more
to
theyr
dampnacyon
than
to
theyr
saluacyon
whan
the
knyght
herd
this
he
knowe
that
it
was
trouthe
.
And
as
he
to fore
had
loued
suche
games
he
hated
them
euer
after
and
despysed
them
merueyllously
¶
Of
vowes
Capitulo
xxxvij
IT
is
slouthe
and
dedely
synne
not
to
fulfill
hys
vowes
within
the
terme
sette
yf
they
be
resonable
.
and
may
be
goodly
doon
They
that
make
vowes
/
ought
to
be
men
of
xiiij
yere
of
age
/
&
wymen
xij
yere
of
age
&
ought
to
haue
suche
witte
and
vnderstandyng
that
comynly
the
said
age
requireth
.
And
yf
ther
be
no
terme
/
it
ought
to
be
doon
the
moste
hastely
that
it
may
goodly
be
doon
/
for
the
tarieng
dysplaiseth
moche
.
to
god
/
as
the
holy
scrypture
saith
I
counssi●●
the
thou
make
no
vowe
ouer
lyghtly
for
the
peryl
that
is
in
the
not
accomplysshyng
/
&
that
thou
saye
in
makyng
the
a
vowe
.
that
yf
thou
wylt
not
ne
mayst
not
doo
it
but
by
the
counseyl
of
a
good
confessour
thou
maist
in
the
stede
of
the
vowe
doo
other
thyng
suche
as
he
shall
charge
the
with
.
Item
yf
thou
made
a
vowe
that
thou
mayste
not
well
accomplissh
:
thou
maist
doo
it
to
be
chaunged
by
som
man
that
hath
power
.
¶
Item
thou
maist
reuoque
the
vowes
that
thy
wyf
hath
made
in
thy
companye
/
and
of
thy
chyldren
that
●●n
in
thy
gouernauuce
whan
thou
knowest
it
fyrst
/
or
ellis
not
/
Thy
chyldren
doon
wel
/
yf
they
make
the
a
vowes
in
whiche
thou
hast
a
vowed
them
/
but
yf
they
doo
it
not
they
sinne
not
yf
they
were
not
consentyng
in
the
age
afore
said
The
relygyouses
ought
not
to
make
vowes
without
lycence
of
theyr
soueraynes
.
or
of
theyr
prelates
or
abbott●s
¶
Of
them
that
haue
connyng
and
vse
it
euyl
Ca.
xxxviij
IT
is
synne
of
slouthe
whan
thou
hast
science
&
connyng
&
thou
vsest
it
not
wel
Thou
oughtest
to
shewe
it
by
werke
by
predycacion
&
by
enseynementes
&
techyng
.
For
yf
thou
soo
doo
thou
doost
right
wel
And
yf
thou
doo
it
not
thou
berest
lettres
ayenst
thy self
as
dyde
Urye
whiche
bare
the
lettres
of
hys
deth
/
and
it
shal
be
to
thy
dampnacyon
.
For
the
holy
scripture
saith
that
the
seruaunt
that
knoweth
the
wyll
of
his
maister
or
lord
/
yf
he
doo
it
not
/
he
shal
be
greuousely
punysshed
/
the
Exam
doctour
saith
yf
thou
knowe
a
gospel
or
a
good
example
thou
oughtest
to
preche
it
or
elles
thou
synnest
.
For
as
moche
is
worth
scyence
whiche
is
not
put
in
ewre
as
tresour
that
is
cast
away
.
Slouthe
is
ydle
:
and
all
slepy
and
it
prouffyted
not
to
hym self
ne
to
none
other
ne
hath
no
reste
of
herte
ne
of
thought
he
that
is
slouthful
entendeth
but
to
yelde
wordes
in
playes
and
ydlenes
.
¶
Example
.
We
rede
in
the
lyf
of
vitis
patrum
Exam
that
a
yong
frere
demaunded
of
an
ancyent
&
said
to
hym
fayr
fader
what
shal
I
doo
for
I
may
not
endure
ne
tarye
in
my
telle
.
And
he
ansuered
to
hym
and
said
fayre
sone
/
that
is
bycause
that
thou
thynkest
not
wel
on
the
reste
that
we
entende
to
haue
in
heuen
.
and
on
the
paynes
that
we
ought
to
fere
and
doubte
yf
thou
thouhtest
heron
wel
and
dilygently
.
and
thy
●el
le
were
ful
of
wormes
.
And
thy self
in
them
vnto
thy
necke
thou
sholdest
wel
abyde
there
wythout
beyng
aferd
.
¶
It
is
Slouth
and
synne
whan
thou
hast
wytte
and
vnderstonding
and
canst
not
thy
Pater
noster
the
Aue
maria
.
and
the
Credo
wyth
that
that
aperteyneth
to
thy
byleue
.
And
that
ought
to
teche
godfaders
and
godmoders
to
the
chyldren
that
they
hold
at
the
fonte
of
batesme
.
ly●e
as
the
prest
enioineth
them
at
the
crystenyng
yf
the
fader
and
the
moder
doo
it
not
▪
or
yf
they
fayl
le
or
deye
to
fore
the
age
they
ought
to
knowe
it
¶
Of
the
pater
noster
Capitulo
.
xxxix
THe
pater
noster
is
the
most
worthy
and
the
best
prayer
that
is
For
it
contryneth
vij
petycyons
in
whiche
werequyre
and
praye
to
god
our
fader
that
he
gyue
to
vs
the
vij
yeftes
of
the
holy
ghoost
And
that
he
delyuere
vs
fro
the
vndedely
synnes
and
that
he
gyue
to
vs
the
vnpromesses
whiche
he
promysed
to
his
frendes
.
For
to
speke
bryefly
it
conteyneth
and
encloseth
it
all
that
the
herte
may
desyre
and
demaunde
of
god
And
our
lord
ihesu
cryste
made
it
short
to
th
ende
that
it
shold
be
sayd
wyth
a
good
wyll
and
ofte
.
¶
The
vij
petycyons
of
the
pater
noster
be
whan
we
say
:
Pater
.
we
praye
benyuolence
.
For
we
calle
hym
pietous
.
whan
we
saye
noster
we
take
away
pryde
.
For
we
calle
hym
not
syngulerly
our
fader
but
of
alle
whan
we
saye
qui
es
in
celis
we
bere
to
hym
reuerence
For
we
saye
not
only
that
he
is
lord
of
erthe
:
ne
of
the
thynges
of
thys
world
.
but
also
of
heuen
/
¶
Of
the
vij
peticyons
of
the
pater
noster
/
Capitulo
xl
THe
fyrst
petycion
of
the
pater
noster
is
Sanctificetur
no
men
tum
wherfore
demande
we
the
peticyon
of
our
lord
that
his
name
be
saintefied
.
is
it
not
soo
/
yes
For
alle
the
scuptures
wytnesse
it
.
but
yet
he
myght
be
sayntified
in
the
hertes
of
many
moo
.
that
is
to
wete
in
the
hertes
of
paynems
.
why
the
byleue
not
on
him
to
th
ende
that
they
byleue
.
serue
.
and
honoure
hym
in
theyr
hertes
.
and
knowe
and
byleue
on
hym
more
fermely
.
than
doo
the
fals
crysten
men
/
and
to
th
ende
also
that
they
haue
knowleche
of
his
name
by
the
lawe
&
that
they
haue
the
loue
of
hym
by
th
office
of
loue
.
and
also
that
he
be
saynctified
in
erthe
the
better
in
the
hertes
of
good
people
by
the
more
grete
knowleche
of
charyte
and
by
grete
swetenes
of
loue
.
wherof
.
Sanctifycetur
&
cetera
.
¶
The
second
peticyon
is
Adueniat
regnum
tuum
▪
what
is
that
we
demaunde
whan
we
saye
.
that
hys
royalme
come
.
Is
he
not
thenne
kyng
.
hath
he
not
thenne
hys
royame
.
yes
.
but
we
demaunde
that
he
come
:
&
that
he
shewe
hym
by
grace
to
them
that
he
is
not
yet
magnyfested
and
shewed
.
that
is
to
wete
to
them
that
be
now
born
/
&
that
ben
yet
to
be
born
/
And
therfore
we
saie
/
O
fader
celestyal
we
praye
the
that
they
whyche
by
nature
of
flesshe
be
gendred
/
and
whiche
by
grace
be
generate
in
the
holy
fonte
of
batesme
.
And
makest
them
iuste
.
and
by
the
clerenes
of
thy
iustice
/
be
thou
shewde
to
alle
them
whyche
be
sones
of
thy
royame
.
And
lyke
wyse
as
thou
regnest
in
the
iuste
and
good
persones
/
soo
take
thou
away
alle
wickednes
and
alle
iniquite
of
the
enemies
of
helle
and
wylle
also
regne
in
them
whiche
ben
yet
in
synne
.
wherof
.
Adueniat
reguum
tuum
&
cetera
.
The
third
petycion
is
.
Fiat
voluntas
tua
sicut
in
celo
et
in
terra
/
we
knowe
certainly
that
they
that
be
in
heuen
doubte
nothyng
to
doo
the
wyll
of
god
/
and
by
cause
that
a
chyld
of
a
day
old
may
not
be
vpon
erthe
without
synne
.
Therfore
we
pray
hym
.
that
lyke
as
the
saintes
doon
his
wyl
in
heuen
.
and
the
good
and
iuste
peple
doon
it
in
the
erthe
to
theyr
power
/
hew
wel
that
we
may
not
doo
after
theyr
propre
perfection
.
that
it
playse
hym
to
gyue
vs
grace
that
we
may
doo
hys
wyll
after
our
lytyl
faculte
and
not
onely
his
wyll
be
doon
of
good
peple
but
also
of
the
wycked
by
remuneracion
of
sinne
.
and
by
operacyon
and
werkyng
of
good
werkes
/
wherof
/
Fiat
voluntas
tua
sicut
in
celo
et
in
terra
/
The
fourth
peticion
is
:
Panem
nostrum
cotidiauum
da
nobis
hodie
/
Thou
oughtest
to
knowe
that
god
hath
made
a
man
of
double
substance
.
that
is
to
wete
of
substance
spirituel
touchyng
the
soule
and
of
substance
corporel
touching
the
body
&
therfore
he
hath
nede
of
two
loues
of
brede
/
one
for
the
soule
and
that
other
for
the
body
.
the
soule
is
fedde
wyth
the
brede
of
holy
scripture
and
the
body
of
natural
brede
.
The
faders
carnal
owen
the
brede
natural
and
corporal
to
them
And
to
theyr
chyldren
by
the
grace
of
god
whiche
maked
it
to
come
/
For
wythout
hym
we
mowe
not
haue
it
ne
spyrituel
also
.
The
faders
spyrituell
ben
the
prelates
and
the
prestes
whiche
owen
to
giue
to
vs
the
spyrituel
brede
that
is
the
doctrine
of
the
holy
scripture
lyke
as
god
comaundeth
them
in
the
gospell
/
But
alas
as
sayth
saint
gregore
The
world
is
all
full
of
prestes
:
and
neuertheles
ther
be
some
that
here
gladly
the
word
of
god
But
ther
be
fewe
that
wyll
saye
it
Alas
what
shal
many
prestes
saye
at
the
daye
of
dome
whyche
haue
take
th
ordre
of
presthode
.
and
neuertheles
they
be
not
ashamed
to
lyue
disordynatly
.
For
whiche
sayth
the
wyse
man
that
the
euyl
prestes
make
the
ruyne
of
the
peple
by
the
euyll
examples
that
they
gyue
to
them
:
Thou
shalt
nat
scarcely
fynde
them
in
the
chirche
for
to
teche
and
enseyne
the
people
/
¶
But
forto
receyne
thoffryngis
/
¶
And
also
thou
shal
fynde
them
wyth
the
peple
dissolute
and
foulle
of
euyll
maners
and
thou
shalt
not
knowe
ne
see
ony
dyffaulte
/
of
the
habite
of
the
seculer
men
to
whome
they
sholde
teche
and
endoctryue
Aud
doo
not
but
they
ben
at
playes
and
esbatementes
more
dyssolute
oftymes
/
than
other
ben
/
bothe
in
wordes
&
in
dedes
.
There
swere
they
and
forswere
them
.
And
speken
euyl
:
and
wycked
wordes
bothe
of
dede
men
/
&
also
of
lyuyng
¶
Theyr
rentes
and
reuenues
they
demauude
rygorously
and
oftymes
to
grete
hurte
and
domages
of
the
poure
peple
&
saye
to
them
grete
vylonnyes
and
take
them
somtyme
wyth
bothe
hondes
/
They
he
cladde
wyth
the
wulle
of
the
sheep
of
our
lord
and
eten
the
flessh
and
after
lete
and
suffre
them
to
deye
for
hongre
for
faulte
of
feding
them
wyth
the
word
of
our
lord
lyke
as
they
be
holden
and
bounden
/
Of
whiche
word
many
cannenot
ne
knowe
it
not
but
goo
to
tauerues
and
dunke
and
ete
more
that
nedeth
:
and
ofte
fallen
at
debat
and
fyght
to
gyder
.
They
lyue
lecherously
and
despende
theyr
good
euill
&
lewdly
the
goodes
of
them
that
ben
departed
out
of
this
world
&
fulle
lytyl
doo
they
theyr
deuoyr
.
And
that
werse
is
/
many
ther
be
so
dissolute
that
it
is
grete
pyte
of
theyr
euyl
lyf
and
euyll
examples
whyche
they
shewe
to
the
world
For
they
slee
them
whome
they
shold
quyckne
for
whome
they
shal
yelde
a
compte
ful
strayt
at
the
day
of
iugement
to
our
lord
:
lyke
as
the
prophete
sayth
.
I
shal
demaunde
saith
he
of
the
pastours
&
herdmen
of
the
chyrche
the
blood
of
the
soules
that
by
theyr
deffaulte
and
neclygence
ben
peasshed
and
dampned
And
therfore
be
they
not
displesed
whan
trouthe
is
said
vnto
them
.
For
saint
bernard
saith
that
it
is
better
to
displease
for
to
saye
trouthe
than
to
please
by
flaterie
Atte
leste
saith
saint
Gregore
yf
they
haue
not
scyence
and
connyng
for
to
preche
to
the
peple
And
seche
them
lete
them
lyue
so
wel
&
kepe
the
waye
of
Innocencye
for
to
gyue
good
example
/
¶
For
the
good
lyf
of
prestes
is
the
science
Exam
in
the
whyche
the
laye
peple
ought
for
to
studie
in
.
And
they
that
be
noo
clerkes
.
By
the
wordes
afore
said
we
demaunde
of
our
lord
that
he
gyue
to
vs
the
brede
of
helthe
and
of
doctrine
/
the
whiche
the
prestes
shold
gyue
to
vs
.
&
we
seie
Panem
nrm̄
cotidianum
fader
gyue
to
vs
corporall
brede
.
&
make
the
lond
co
germe
&
bunge
forth
fruit
for
to
susteine
vs
bodyly
&
giue
to
vs
spyrytuel
brede
that
is
to
wete
iuspire
our
prelats
&
our
prestes
of
the
ch●rche
that
the
doctrine
whiche
thou
hast
gyuen
to
them
.
they
will
distribute
to
vs
wysely
&
charitably
&
yf
they
will
not
good
lord
we
praye
the
that
thou
wylt
fede
vs
withe
the
dinyne
inspyrasyon
of
thy
holy
spyride
to
th
ende
that
by
the
we
may
haue
the
brede
of
spyrituel
lyf
withinforth
the
whiche
it
please
hym
to
dystribute
to
vs
by
deuocyon
Thus
panem
nostrum
totidianum
da
nobis
hodie
.
The
vpeticōn
is
dimitte
nobis
debita
nostra
licut
et
nos
dimittimus
debitoribus
nostris
/
Alas
how
this
peticion
is
gretely
doubtous
&
perillous
to
moche
peple
that
saie
it
/
Certes
it
dooth
to
them
more
harm
than
good
many
ther
be
that
by
theyr
tongue
and
euyll
wrath
be
so
harded
ayenst
them
that
haue
doon
to
them
ony
displaisir
that
they
wold
wel
haue
them
slain
of
theyr
propre
hondes
.
and
also
hurte
in
alle
theyr
goodes
And
neyther
for
the
loue
of
god
ne
for
prayers
requyred
to
them
.
ne
for
mercy
that
is
desyred
of
them
wylle
not
take
ony
satysfacion
ne
make
peas
ne
acoorde
wyth
them
.
Of
suche
peple
saith
the
prophete
that
theyr
prayer
is
tourned
in
to
synne
as
touchyng
them self
.
And
how
wel
that
they
ben
suche
and
so
paruerse
that
they
may
not
be
more
yet
haue
they
not
drede
in
the
world
but
knele
doun
on
theyr
knees
to
fore
god
and
tofore
the
aulter
and
saye
this
prayere
O
ye
right
curssyd
synners
what
is
this
that
ye
doo
.
ye
prayr
ayen
your self
ye
wyll
not
pardone
ne
forgyue
to
them
that
haue
trespaced
to
you
.
and
yet
ye
praye
to
god
that
he
pardon
ne
your
trespaces
lyke
as
ye
pardonne
theyres
.
ye
moeue
god
ayenst
yon
.
and
make
hym
more
angry
than
ye
appease
hym
Certes
what
someuer
pardonneth
not
ony
thyng
that
had
be
doon
or
said
to
hym
god
shal
neuer
pardone
to
him
his
synnes
for
he
him self
prayde
for
them
that
putte
him
to
deth
who
me
he
might
haue
confounded
and
destroyed
yf
he
had
wolde
the
holy
scripture
saith
that
he
that
/
hateth
an
other
is
an
homicide
or
manslear
&
hath
no
parte
in
the
kyngdom
of
heuen
Now
lete
him
beware
&
take
hede
what
he
shal
saye
that
is
in
suche
estate
/
for
it
is
better
to
him
to
be
styl
&
saie
not
than
to
demaunde
pardon
whan
he
wyl
not
forgyue
.
Thus
dimite
nobis
debita
nostra
.
The
vj
peticion
is
/
Et
ne
nos
inducas
in
temptacionem
Thou
oughtest
to
vnderstonde
hoolly
that
we
ought
not
to
demande
of
god
that
we
be
not
tempted
.
but
we
praye
hym
that
he
wyl
not
suffre
vs
to
be
surmounted
of
the
temptacyon
.
The
temptacions
proffiten
moche
to
moche
peple
/
for
by
the
vyctories
in
withstonding
them
they
shal
haue
the
crowne
of
glorie
like
as
saith
saint
James
.
wel
happy
is
he
that
suffreth
temptacion
For
whan
he
shal
be
proued
.
he
shal
haue
the
crowne
of
perdurable
lyf
.
And
yet
saith
saint
James
right
dere
brethern
esteme
and
take
in
you
all
ioye
of
the
spirite
and
of
grace
whan
ye
shall
be
tempted
with
diuerse
temptacions
for
by
the
pacience
that
ye
shal
hane
ye
shal
possesse
your
soules
in
perdurable
glorie
Thre
thinges
ther
be
that
tempte
vs
in
this
world
that
is
to
wyte
the
flessh
/
the
world
and
the
deuil
The
flessh
tempteth
vs
by
glotonnye
and
lecherye
/
the
world
tempteth
vs
by
prosperite
and
by
aduersite
.
the
deuil
enforceth
him
to
tempte
vs
to
sinne
and
therfore
we
saie
Fader
suffre
vs
not
to
be
tempted
more
than
we
may
suffre
ne
bere
/
but
gyue
to
vs
strengthe
power
&
will
for
to
suffre
wel
the
temptacyons
to
th
ende
that
we
may
haue
victorie
.
Thus.
Etne
nos
iuducas
in
temtacionē
.
The
vij
peticion
is
.
sed
libera
nos
a
malo
many
euyllis
ther
be
to
whiche
humaine
creature
is
subgette
and
of
whiche
in
noo
wyse
by
hym self
he
may
not
kepe
hym
ne
esche
we
them
.
whyche
may
be
dystyngued
in
sexe
manneres
.
There
is
one
euylle
of
the
body
and
an
other
of
the
soule
¶
Item
one
euyl
of
the
synne
:
and
an
other
of
payne
¶
Item
an
euyl
of
thys
present
world
And
another
of
that
whiche
is
to
come
And
of
them
that
depende
of
thyse
we
demaunde
of
our
lord
that
he
delyuered
vs
of
whan
we
saye
/
Sed
libera
nos
a
malo
.
Lord
delyuer
vs
fro
alle
euylle
not
onely
of
the
lytyl
euillis
but
also
of
the
grete
Thus
Sed
libera
nos
a
malo
Conclusion
of
alle
these
peticions
afore
said
is
Amen
that
is
to
saie
as
verily
as
we
demande
in
all
the
peticōns
to
foresaid
soo
good
lord
be
it
.
This
praier
we
ought
to
saye
ofte
.
for
god
made
it
and
s●ewde
it
to
vs
how
we
shold
praye
And
certainli
noo
prayer
may
compare
to
this
/
ne
is
more
prosytable
to
vs
some
ther
be
that
glorifie
them self
in
saieng
many
other
prayers
and
in
redyng
many
psalme
;
in
the
psaulter
.
And
whan
they
saye
them
with
the
mouth
of
tymes
theyr
herte
is
sette
on
worldy
thinges
:
of
whom
our
lord
saieth
the
peple
preyse
me
with
t●●
mouth
b●t
the
herte
is
ferre
fro
me
:
we
blame
not
ne
gaynsaye
ayenst
suche
prayers
:
●t
to
saie
deuocyens
.
but
we
prayse
moche
yf
wyth
the
polixite
of
the
prayer
be
the
deuocyen
of
the
herte
.
¶
Of
the
Aue
maria
/
capitulo
xlj
AUe
maria
is
the
fairest
salutacyōn
and
that
best
pleaseth
to
the
virgyne
marie
of
ony
thing
that
is
:
&
yet
it
to
shold
plese
her
better
who
that
wyl
saie
in
th
ende
ventris
tui
ihesus
She
is
moder
of
mercy
&
of
grace
Quene
of
heuen
/
lady
of
angellis
our
swetenes
our
hope
.
by
whom
after
god
all
the
world
is
susteined
.
The
iuste
men
by
her
haue
consolacyon
.
The
synners
pardon
:
the
seke
helthe
.
the
angellis
.
the
archangellis
.
the
saintes
gladnesse
.
the
deuillis
confusion
.
And
the
holy
tunyte
.
glorie
:
That
the
iuste
peple
haue
by
hyr
●osola●yon
it
apperith
by
this
example
.
¶
Example
.
We
rede
in
the
hystorie
of
saynt
Exam
Basille
.
and
the
same
witnesseth
philibert
bisshop
of
carnote
in
Cezarye
that
Julyen
thappostata
whyche
was
fyrste
amonke
.
&
after
forsoke
his
custendom
/
and
was
Emperoure
of
rome
And
whan
he
cam
in
to
the
cyte
of
Capadoce
saint
basylle
bysshop
of
the
same
Cyte
/
Whyche
semed
deuoutely
the
virgyne
Marye
made
to
hym
a
present
of
thre
barly
loues
:
¶
For
he
ete
none
other
brede
.
Julyen
was
moche
angry
and
sente
them
agayn
/
&
after
sent
to
him
a
trusse
of
heye
saieng
thou
hast
sent
to
vs
mete
for
bestes
vnresonable
wherfor
receiue
a
like
present
lyke
as
thou
as
sent
to
vs
saint
Basylle
sent
hym
a
word
again
we
haue
sent
to
the
suche
mete
as
we
ete
.
and
thou
hast
sente
to
vs
mete
of
a
dombe
beest
/
Julyen
anfuered
to
him
whan
I
haue
put
in
my
subiecyon
all
the
royal
me
of
perse
/
in
despite
of
the
I
shal
destroye
this
cite
The
night
after
saint
basylle
was
in
the
chyrche
of
our
lady
and
sawe
a
vysyon
a
grete
innltitude
of
angellis
and
in
the
middes
a
lady
whyche
satte
vpon
a
trone
.
and
sayd
to
the
other
.
Calle
to
me
anon
mercurye
for
to
goo
slee
iulien
thappostata
whiche
blasphemeth
me
&
my
sone
.
This
mercurie
was
a
knyght
whyche
for
susteining
of
the
fayth
of
shum
cust
iulyau
had
put
to
deth
and
was
buryed
in
the
same
chyrche
of
carnote
anon
thys
mercurie
by
the
comandement
of
the
virgine
marie
arose
vp
and
toke
his
armes
whiche
were
kept
in
the
chyrche
&
wente
in
to
the
bataill
where
iulien
thappostata
was
and
anon
as
he
saw
iulien
he
smote
the
hors
with
his
spores
&
cam
hardily
to
hym
and
smote
him
thurth
the
body
and
departed
soo
that
noman
wyst
where
he
becam
and
iulien
deyeng
fylled
his
honde
ful
of
his
owne
blod
&
cast
it
in
to
the
ayer
sayeng
thou
galileen
hast
vainquisshed
me
:
he
called
our
lord
galileen
by
cause
he
was
conceyued
in
galile
:
thus
dide
iulien
thapostata
/
&
all
the
peple
lefte
him
.
thenne
cam
they
of
perce
&
flewe
him
fro
the
heed
to
the
feet
.
&
of
his
skynne
made
a
stole
vnder
the
feet
of
the
kyng
of
perse
aienst
whome
he
went
to
make
warre
whan
seint
basylle
had
seen
this
vision
he
went
to
the
place
where
seint
mercurye
was
buryed
&
his
armes
.
and
opened
the
sepulture
&
fonde
neither
him
ne
his
armes
.
and
he
demanded
of
the
kepar
of
the
chyrche
who
had
taken
away
his
armes
.
the
whiche
sayd
that
they
had
ben
there
at
euensong
tyme
byfore
/
Saint
basille
wente
his
way
.
&
on
the
morn
as
sone
as
it
was
day
he
cam
agayn
to
the
sepulture
tofore
said
.
and
fonde
the
body
of
saynt
mercury
his
ariues
&
his
spere
whiche
was
all
blody
.
&
forth
with
cam
anon
a
man
fro
the
bataill
which
recōptedto
him
the
maner
how
iulien
had
be
slain
of
a
knight
whiche
was
not
¶
knowen
what
he
was
ne
where
he
becam
:
Now
seest
thou
how
the
vyrgyne
marie
deliuered
saint
basile
and
the
cyte
fro
the
hondes
of
▪
Julien
.
Thus
the
iuste
peple
haue
confort
by
hyr
.
And
I
sayd
also
that
the
synners
haue
by
hyr
pardon
and
remyssion
of
theyr
synnes
.
as
it
appereth
herafter
by
the
lyf
of
Theophyle
/
¶
Of
the
lyf
of
Theophyle
Capitulo
xlij
PHylibert
bysshop
of
the
cyte
of
carnote
recounteth
that
in
the
yere
of
our
lord
v
C
xxxvij
in
the
wyasme
of
cecylle
in
a
Cyte
was
a
man
named
theophyle
the
whiche
was
vycary
of
the
bisshop
and
gouerned
all
the
bysshope●●ch
And
he
gouerned
it
so
wel
and
wysely
that
whan
the
bysshop
was
dede
all
the
peple
chaas
hym
and
said
that
he
was
worthy
to
be
bysshop
:
but
he
wold
not
be
it
.
and
ansuerd
that
his
of
syce
suffysed
hym
/
&
soo
ther
was
another
made
bysshop
whyche
deposed
Theophyle
of
hys
offyce
.
wherof
he
was
moche
angry
in
suche
wyse
that
he
wente
to
an
euyl
Jewe
for
to
haue
counseyll
how
he
myght
haue
agayn
hys
office
.
The
Jewe
made
hym
speke
with
the
deuil
the
whiche
said
to
hym
yf
he
wold
renye
god
and
hys
moder
and
renonce
his
crystendom
.
And
therof
wryte
to
him
a
lettre
of
his
hond
he
sholde
remyse
hym
in
his
office
:
Theophile
agreed
to
all
and
made
to
him
a
lettre
and
sealid
it
with
his
seal
and
signed
it
with
hys
sygne
manuel
.
¶
The
deuil
made
anon
that
theophille
was
on
the
morn
in
the
grace
of
the
bysshop
&
was
sette
agayn
in
his
offyce
/
After
this
Theophyle
aduised
him
better
and
repented
him
moche
of
that
he
had
doon
.
And
wiste
not
where
to
haue
recouere
for
he
had
renyed
god
and
our
lady
by
hys
lettre
sealyd
.
he
aduysed
hym self
that
our
lady
was
pi●ous
&
moder
of
mercy
&
entred
in
to
the
chyrche
founden
in
the
honour
of
her
.
and
wias
ther
by
the
space
of
.
xl
.
dayes
in
prayeng
the
glorious
vrgyne
marye
that
she
wold
receyue
him
to
grace
.
It
happend
that
on
a
satreday
nyght
that
he
in
wayllyng
&
wepyng
fylle
aslepe
and
the
/
gloriouse
virgyne
appierde
to
hym
&
blamed
hym
strongly
of
that
he
had
don
and
after
she
sayd
to
hym
that
he
sholde
nothyng
doubte
but
that
she
sholde
gete
grace
and
pardon
for
hym
ot
hir
sone
.
&
anone
she
toke
fro
the
deuyl
mygntily
the
lettre
that
he
hat
delyurede
to
hym
:
and
she
leyde
it
vpon
hys
breste
.
to
th
ende
that
he
sholde
knowe
certaynly
that
he
was
no
lenger
seruant
ne
bounden
to
the
deuyl
of
helle
whan
he
awoke
and
fonde
his
lettre
noman
ooude
expresse
the
Joye
that
he
had
and
on
the
morn
:
whiche
was
sonday
.
he
wente
sonne
as
he
myghte
to
he
chyrche
to
fore
the
bysshop
&
recoūtede
to
fore
alle
men
all
the
feat
&
how
it
had
happened
to
hym
wherof
ther
were
many
whyche
had
grete
hope
to
haue
merci
of
theyr
sinnes
by
the
gloriouse
vyrgine
marie
.
The
bysshop
comanded
hym
to
caste
the
lettre
in
to
thefyre
after
that
the
bisshop
with
all
the
clergye
/
brought
hym
to
the
aultre
and
ther
gaaf
hym
the
body
of
our
lord
/
and
in
receynynge
hym
his
face
bycam
as
clere
as
the
sonne
.
and
after
he
abode
i●
the
chyrche
louyng
god
and
the
vyrgyne
marye
by
whome
he
had
be
delyuerd
vnto
the
/
thyrde
day
that
he
deyde
holyly
and
we
le
.
now
hast
thou
herde
how
the
synners
hane
byhir
grace
and
pardon
/
¶
How
angellis
&
sayntes
haue
by
our
lady
ioye
:
Ca.
xliij
WHo
that
shold
wryte
alle
them
that
by
the
vyrgyne
marye
haue
be
guarisshed
&
heled
of
the
maladie
of
the
soule
and
of
the
sekenes
of
the
body
hym
behoueth
ouer
grete
a
booke
.
wherof
we
leue
by
cause
of
shortenes
.
Also
we
haue
sayd
that
the
angels
▪
archangels
.
and
saintes
haue
by
hir
Joye
&
gladnes
:
For
by
hyr
many
synners
ben
called
to
penaunce
.
and
the
gospell
sayth
that
the
angellis
haue
more
gretter
ioye
of
a
synnar
that
repenteth
hym
and
doth
penaunce
than
they
haue
of
iiij
.
s●o●e
xix
.
rightful
men
that
neuer
synned
.
The
holy
saintes
whan
they
see
vs
come
in
to
heuen
haue
grete
●●ye
and
gladnes
for
as
moche
as
we
ben
theyr
frendes
and
theyr
bretheren
.
and
lyke
as
comynly
men
reioyce
of
the
wele
of
his
frende
/
The
deuylles
haue
by
the
virgyne
marye
grete
confusion
whan
by
her
the
synners
be
delyuered
fro
theyr
hondes
/
lyke
as
thou
herdest
of
theophile
.
the
blyssyd
trynyte
hath
glorye
touchyng
to
vs
.
For
ihesu
crist
hath
bought
vs
wyth
hys
precyous
blood
:
Now
late
vs
so
doo
in
this
world
that
we
may
come
in
to
hir
companye
.
who
someuer
that
salew●th
ofte
and
deuoutely
our
blessyd
lady
wyth
the
said
a●e
maria
.
he
shal
fynde
confort
and
helpe
in
her
.
and
she
shal
defende
hym
fro
the
deuylles
and
in
th
ende
she
shal
reward
hym
wythout
nombre
/
seynt
bernard
sayth
that
he
ought
tarye
for
to
serue
hym
whom
he
calleth
in
his
necessitees
.
and
helpeth
him
nothing
.
lyke
as
he
wold
saie
that
none
who
someuer
he
be
shal
requyre
hyr
deuoutly
.
But
that
she
shal
doo
hym
comfort
and
ayde
:
Therfore
sayth
the
holy
scrypture
:
how
wel
that
god
hereth
not
the
synners
whan
they
praye
to
him
yet
what
someuer
synner
thou
be
leue
not
to
serue
hyr
and
to
loue
her
for
yf
thou
perseuere
and
continue
.
verely
she
shal
gete
grace
of
her
sone
and
pardon
of
thy
synnesBut
beware
and
kepe
the
wel
that
thou
synne
not
in
that
ent●nte
Exam
ne
in
hope
therof
.
For
that
shold
deplease
hyr
.
¶
Example
we
rede
of
abbot
iohan
whiche
aroos
after
his
deth
and
sayde
who
that
wold
be
saued
.
shold
sale
we
ofte
and
deuo●tly
she
vyrgyne
marye
wyth
thys
gretyng
.
Aue
maria
and
whan
he
had
so
said
he
was
dede
as
he
was
tofore
.
Another
example
we
rede
of
a
knyght
that
had
a
castel
nyghe
vnto
a
comyn
waye
And
alle
them
that
passed
tofore
the
castel
he
robbed
without
pyte
.
And
he
had
a
custome
that
euery
day
w●hout
f●illy●y
he
wold
grete
our
lady
wyth
an
Aue
maria
.
It
happend
on
a
tyme
that
a
relygyous
man
passed
forth
by
and
anone
sent
out
hys
seruauntes
for
to
robbe
hym
the
relygyous
man
praied
them
that
they
shold
brynge
hym
to
theyr
lord
/
For
he
had
to
speke
wyth
hym
secretly
/
whan
he
was
come
tofore
hym
he
sayd
to
the
knyght
that
he
shold
doo
come
alle
them
of
his
hows
for
he
wold
preche
to
them
the
word
of
god
.
whan
they
were
assembled
ye
said
to
them
ye
be
not
alle
here
.
for
the
lordes
chamber
lain
was
not
there
And
the
lord
comaunded
that
anone
he
shold
be
●ette
and
anone
as
he
was
●omen
and
sawe
the
relygyous
man
he
began
to
torne
the
eyen
in
hys
hede
as
one
enraged
the
relygyous
man
sayd
to
hym
I
coniure
the
in
the
name
of
god
that
thou
saye
to
vs
what
thou
art
&
what
thou
sechest
in
thys
castel
he
ansuered
to
hym
/
I
am
said
he
no
man
but
I
am
a
deuyl
.
that
haue
taken
the
forme
of
a
man
and
haue
duelled
in
this
castel
with
this
knyght
the
space
of
▪
xiij
.
yere
/
and
our
maistre
the
grete
deuyl
of
helle
hath
sente
me
hyther
.
to
th
entente
that
yf
thys
knyght
had
forgeten
to
saye
on
daye
to
our
lady
one
aue
maria
:
Incontinent
I
shold
haue
put
hym
to
deth
but
the
day
that
he
sayd
it
.
I
had
noo
power
ouer
hym
whan
the
knyght
herd
thys
:
he
was
abasshed
.
and
knelyd
doun
to
the
●●et
of
the
relygyous
man
and
requyred
of
hym
pardon
/
and
fro
than
forthou
he
ladde
a
good
lyf
The
relygyous
man
comanded
the
deuyl
that
he
shold
goo
in
to
suche
a
place
/
where
he
shold
neuer
noye
ne
grieue
hym
that
semed
▪
the
virgyne
marie
Now
hast
thou
herd
how
thys
knyght
for
sayeng
euery
day
one
/
Aue
maria
.
was
delyuerd
fro
she
deuyl
and
brought
agayn
in
good
lyf
.
Example
.
it
is
redde
how
a
knyght
was
moche
Exam
deuont
toward
our
lady
/
but
he
was
moche
lecherous
/
It
happed
that
on
a
tyme
as
he
passed
thurth
a
wode
that
he
had
so
grete
hungre
that
he
vnneth
myght
goo
forth
/
he
requyred
deuoutly
the
blyssyd
virgine
marie
of
helpe
and
comfort
/
And
she
for
to
withdrawe
hym
fro
hys
synne
sent
to
hym
by
two
:
fayr
maydens
right
good
mete
in
a
●oul
styukyng
plater
whyche
prayed
hym
swetly
that
he
shold
ete
.
and
he
ansuered
to
them
agayn
that
he
shold
rather
deye
for
hungre
/
than
ete
of
that
good
mete
.
by
cause
the
plater
was
so
●oul
that
the
good
mete
was
in
.
They
ansuerd
to
hym
yf
thou
that
art
a
man
mortal
wilt
not
ete
of
this
good
mete
by
cause
of
the
fylthe
of
the
plater
and
hast
so
grete
hungre
/
how
wenest
thou
thenne
that
the
vyrgyne
marie
whiche
is
so
fayre
and
so
swete
take
in
grace
&
thanke
the
fayr
salutacyons
that
thou
presentest
to
her
euery
day
whan
thy
body
is
so
foul
&
vyle
of
the
ordnre
of
lecherye
&
other
synnes
of
whiche
thou
art
all
full
.
for
whiche
cause
thy
seruyce
plcseth
not
to
her
sone
ne
to
her
/
and
yet
thou
wylt
that
they
receyue
them
.
wasshe
thy
body
by
confessyon
and
amendyng
of
thy
lyf
so
moche
that
it
be
pure
and
clene
or
ellis
thou
losest
thy
payne
/
And
whan
thys
whas
said
they
departed
.
&
the
said
knyght
lost
his
hungre
and
confessid
him
&
amended
hys
lyf
.
and
after
serued
our
lady
by
long
tyme
holyly
to
the
honour
of
of
hir
sone
our
sauyour
Jhesu
criste
/
whyche
lyueth
&
regneth
and
after
deyde
and
was
saued
.
Thenne
ought
the
Juste
and
rightwys
men
haue
grete
hope
for
to
serue
our
lady
whan
that
synners
ben
by
her
saued
.
¶
Of
the
holy
name
of
Jhesu
criste
Capitulo
xliiij
IT
is
slonth
whan
one
nameth
the
name
of
ihesus
in
the
chyrche
and
enclyned
not
his
heed
ne
his
knee
for
right
soo
foloweth
the
ordynaunce
of
the
lawe
Canon
.
&
saint
poul
sayth
that
the
name
of
Jhesus
is
aboue
alle
other
names
for
the
whiche
euery
knee
of
heuen
of
erthe
and
of
helle
ought
to
bowe
.
seint
bernard
saith
that
the
name
of
ihesu
is
mete
confortable
mete
whiche
strengtyth
and
maketh
a
persone
to
lyue
hesayth
that
alleway
whan
he
is
named
/
that
we
ben
conforted
/
yet
saith
saint
bernard
▪
that
this
name
ihesus
is
called
a
fontaine
▪
for
of
him
yssued
thre
ryuers
on
the
tree
of
the
crosse
that
is
to
wyte
wordes
of
swetnes
whiche
signifie
confessyon
/
effusion
of
blod
whiche
signifieth
affection
water
for
to
wasshe
▪
whiche
signyfieth
compunction
.
Item
he
saith
that
the
name
of
ihesus
.
is
sayd
medycine
for
noo
thyng
restraineth
so
moche
the
angre
of
yre
the
swellyng
of
pryd
/
ne
heleth
the
wounde
ne
restranith
so
moche
the
flux
of
lechery
ne
atēperith
the
thurst
of
auarice
/
ne
taketh
away
all
stenche
and
ordure
.
as
doth
the
name
of
ihesu
Item
seint
bernard
saith
that
it
is
called
lyght
&
saith
fro
whens
is
comen
thurgh
all
the
world
so
grete
lyght
of
faith
.
but
of
the
name
of
ihesu
.
This
is
the
name
saith
he
.
that
saint
poul
bare
tofore
the
kynges
/
and
tofore
all
people
as
a
lyght
vpon
a
can
styke
.
Item
said
seint
bernard
that
this
is
a
name
of
grete
sauour
&
of
grete
swetenes
&
saith
yf
thou
wylt
write
I
wyll
not
rede
yf
it
speke
not
of
ihesus
▪
A
doctour
named
richard
of
seint
victor
saith
that
ihesus
is
a
name
right
delectable
moche
confortyng
the
sinnar
.
and
it
is
the
name
of
holy
hope
.
I
prey
the
saith
he
that
thou
be
to
me
ihs.
for
Ihs
is
as
moche
to
saie
as
sauyour
Saint
peter
whiche
was
pope
of
rome
saith
that
ihus
is
the
name
that
gyueth
clerenes
&
sight
to
the
blynde
men
heeringe
to
deef
men
gooyng
to
the
lame
:
speche
to
the
dombe
the
lyf
to
the
deed
and
alle
the
power
of
the
deuyl
it
taketh
away
&
oute
of
the
bodies
in
whiche
they
put
them
.
Item
he
counseilleth
the
and
exhorteth
that
thou
haue
this
name
in
honour
and
reuerence
&
hys
blessyd
passyon
and
to
th
ende
that
god
haue
the
in
kepyng
:
that
thou
saye
euery
mornyng
and
euery
euenyng
in
makyng
the
signe
of
the
crosse
vpon
thy
breste
▪
Ihs
of
nazareth
sone
of
god
whyche
suffredest
deth
and
passyon
haue
merry
of
me
Or
saie
in
latin
in
this
wise
.
Jhesu
nazarene
fili
dei
mise
rere
mei
.
Example
It
is
redde
of
a
man
that
soo
sayde
&
whan
Exam
he
was
deed
the
deuyllys
wold
haue
taken
hys
soule
but
anone
out
of
hys
breste
and
of
his
forhede
yssued
sterres
so
fayre
and
clere
that
they
might
not
approche
him
.
and
an
angel
camfro
heuen
whiche
delyuered
hym
and
reysed
/
the
whiche
sayde
yf
I
had
knowen
in
my
chyldhode
the
goodnes
to
calle
the
name
of
ihesu
.
I
had
admonested
all
the
world
to
my
power
to
calle
on
the
said
name
of
ihesus
for
many
perillis
¶
Of
the
yefte
of
strengthe
ayenst
slouthe
Ca:
xlv
THe
fourth
yefte
of
the
holy
ghoost
is
the
yefte
of
strengthe
whan
god
gyueth
it
to
a
man
he
gyueth
to
hym
a
new
herte
/
hardy
and
noble
for
to
despyse
alle
wordly
thynges
and
he
may
promise
and
gyue
hardynes
and
for
to
suffre
alle
the
Exam
euylles
that
the
world
may
doo
and
saye
to
hym
▪
Example
.
we
rede
that
after
the
fiste
of
penthecoste
whan
thappostles
were
armed
with
the
yefte
of
this
vertu
by
the
holy
ghoost
they
were
strong
and
hardy
for
to
suffre
alle
the
harmes
&
paynes
of
the
world
.
And
had
ioye
whan
ther
was
doon
to
them
ony
shame
or
greuousnes
.
who
that
is
thenne
armed
of
this
yefte
he
may
wel
fyghte
ayenst
alle
synnes
&
alle
aduersitres
whyche
is
but
a
lyght
thyng
to
doo
to
a
vigorous
herte
Thenne
late
euery
man
dispose
hym
to
gete
this
yefte
of
strengthe
/
thathe
may
myghtyly
fyght
and
resiste
synne
.
and
ioyously
wyth
pacyence
suffre
payne
tribulacyon
and
aduersite
for
the
loue
of
our
lord
/
¶
Of
the
synne
of
auarice
.
Ca.
xlvj
IT
is
auarice
for
to
thynke
ouer
moche
on
the
goodes
of
thys
world
and
to
gete
them
ylle
and
agayn
conscience
it
is
vsure
for
to
lene
for
wynnyng
as
doon
som
vsurers
whyche
lene
money
for
cheuesaunce
vpon
hors
on
whete
/
on
wyne
or
fruytes
of
th
erthe
/
whiche
they
take
in
pledge
or
gage
with
on
t
to
rekene
the
said
fruites
in
payement
And
yet
that
werse
is
they
wyl
rekene
ij
or
in
tymes
in
the
yere
for
to
haue
theyr
entrees
of
theyr
propre
dettes
.
These
ben
cruel
and
vygorous
vsurers
.
Other
ther
ben
that
lene
vpon
a
bargayn
mad
entendyng
for
to
haue
some
guerdon
or
reward
in
money
or
in
cuppes
of
gold
or
of
siluer
or
in
robes
/
or
in
hors
.
or
in
wyne
/
or
in
fatteswyn
.
or
in
prebendes
for
to
gyue
to
theyr
chyldren
/
or
in
other
thynges
:
And
alle
is
vsure
whan
ouy
man
taketh
by
cause
of
preste
or
lenyng
.
Alle
vsurers
and
theyr
heyres
ben
bounden
to
make
restitucyon
alle
that
they
haue
vsured
or
attestre
they
onght
to
doo
theyr
deuoyr
&
power
to
restorr
/
or
ellys
to
haue
grete
sorwe
atte
theyr
herte
yf
they
may
not
make
restitucion
/
ffor
yf
they
deye
without
doeyng
itif
it
be
knowen
/
they
Exam
ought
not
to
be
buryed
in
crysten
buryell
is
Example
an
arche
bysshop
of
besanson
maystre
in
dyuynyte
/
recounteth
that
man
abbaye
was
buried
an
vsurer
for
the
prouffyt
that
they
of
th
abbaye
receyued
and
was
buryed
in
theyr
cloister
.
but
euery
nyght
he
aroos
out
of
hys
graue
and
discouuerd
theyr
houses
.
and
wold
not
suffre
the
monkes
to
slepe
ne
●rste
and
oftymes
was
out
of
the
amyto●ie
and
allway
in
the
morning
they
brought
the
body
in
to
the
graue
▪
It
happed
that
an
holy
man
coniured
hym
and
demanded
of
hym
how
the
monkes
myght
haue
theyr
reste
he
ansuerd
and
sayd
to
hym
lyke
as
I
haue
angryd
god
by
vsure
in
lyke
wyse
I
shal
not
reste
day
ne
nyght
ne
the
monkes
neyther
vnto
the
time
that
they
haue
put
out
my
body
out
of
theyr
cloystre
and
whan
he
was
put
out
&
buryed
in
other
place
not
halowed
he
neuer
after
greued
them
It
ys
auarice
to
doo
fals
marchaundyse
and
to
selle
by
fals
mesure
&
for
more
than
it
is
worth
.
&
to
bye
for
lasse
than
it
is
worth
for
money
payed
tofore
hond
.
To
lene
vpon
pledge
/
and
that
the
pledge
be
lost
for
lasse
than
it
is
worth
yf
it
be
not
payed
atte
day
sette
/
For
to
selle
the
thyng
for
the
more
derrer
by
cause
of
the
abydyng
of
the
payement
And
for
to
reteyne
and
kepe
thinge
founden
/
For
saint
Jherome
saith
moche
folke
wene
to
be
without
synne
to
reteyne
that
they
fynde
/
&
saye
god
hath
gyuen
it
to
me
.
to
whom
shold
I
yelde
it
they
.
knowe
sayth
he
that
it
is
synne
lyke
and
semblable
to
thefte
&
rauayne
yf
they
rendre
it
not
agayn
and
they
knowe
to
whom
it
longeth
&
yf
they
know
not
/
the
clerkes
saie
that
they
ought
doo
crye
it
openly
&
doo
saye
it
in
the
chyrches
/
¶
And
yf
they
fynde
none
that
haue
loste
it
.
That
theme
they
dyspose
it
by
the
counseyll
and
aduys
of
a
good
confessour
:
Or
yf
they
be
poure
to
reteyne
it
and
Exam
praye
for
hym
that
hath
loste
it
/
or
gyue
it
for
goodes
sake
Example
:
It
is
redde
in
the
lyf
of
seynt
martin
/
that
on
a
time
seint
martin
went
sayeng
his
houres
and
fonde
a
p̄eny
the
whiche
he
reteyned
and
put
it
to
his
owen
prouffit
.
whan
he
cam
toward
his
deth
/
the
deuil
cam
to
the
feet
of
his
bedde
.
and
began
to
make
grere
frste
&
to
crie
merueillously
seit
martin
herd
him
and
coniured
him
to
saie
what
he
demaunded
and
sought
there
Thenne
the
deuyl
ansuerd
to
hym
and
said
I
tarie
for
thy
soule
for
it
is
myn
seint
martin
demaunded
of
him
wherfore
The
deuil
said
.
thou
fondest
on
a
time
apeny
of
whiche
thou
neuere
madest
restitucion
/
but
hást
reteined
it
/
whan
seint
Martin
herd
this
he
praied
god
to
giue
him
terme
for
to
restore
the
peny
&
make
satysfacyon
.
god
suffred
hym
to
lyue
a
space
of
time
&
to
gyue
the
peny
for
goddes
sake
.
Thenne
the
deuyl
fledde
away
all
confused
and
enraged
.
Now
seest
thou
how
the
sowle
of
seint
Martyn
was
in
ieopardye
for
apeny
Thefte
is
euyl
auarice
:
It
is
thefte
to
take
or
reteyne
other
mennes
thyng
with
wronge
and
wythout
the
wille
of
hym
to
whom
it
bylongeth
/
¶
And
the
lawe
saith
that
the
synne
may
not
be
pardoned
/
Exam
but
yf
restitucion
be
made
to
hys
power
.
¶
Example
It
is
redde
of
a
frere
templer
of
them
that
be
crossed
that
on
a
tyme
he
toke
apeny
of
hys
brother
the
whiche
was
in
the
temple
relygyous
as
him self
was
.
and
had
neuer
doon
other
euil
but
the
same
.
¶
It
happend
that
on
a
day
god
sente
hym
a
sekenes
moche
terrible
of
whyche
he
deide
And
whan
he
was
dede
he
was
brought
tofore
god
/
and
the
deuil
said
to
god
.
Syre
knowe
ye
that
this
sowle
is
oures
/
and
our
maystre
of
helle
.
¶
For
on
a
tyme
he
toke
fro
his
brother
relygyous
apeny
.
of
whiche
he
made
noo
restitucyon
.
¶
And
thou
hast
said
.
that
he
that
shal
haue
of
another
vnto
the
fourth
parte
of
a
peny
shal
neuer
haue
parte
in
heuen
.
¶
The
angel
whiche
was
on
that
other
syde
wyst
not
what
to
saye
.
sauf
he
said
/
goode
lord
haue
pyte
of
thys
poure
sowle
and
muste
he
for
so
lytyl
a
thyng
be
dampned
.
¶
Thenne
ansuered
our
lord
nay
I
wyl
not
.
But
I
iudge
that
he
be
caste
in
thys
pytte
all
fulle
of
leed
boyllyng
.
to
th
ende
that
he
doo
penaunce
of
the
synne
that
he
hath
doon
.
and
after
that
the
sowle
retourne
in
to
the
body
for
to
goo
in
to
the
world
and
for
to
make
r●stytucion
to
his
brother
of
the
peny
that
he
had
robbed
fro
hym
.
Thenne
th
angel
that
helde
the
sowle
lete
it
falle
in
to
the
pytte
of
boyllyng
leed
▪
&
ther
he
felte
so
gre●e
payne
and
sorowe
that
none
erthely
thyng
may
diuyse
:
¶
It
happend
that
the
sowle
came
agayn
to
the
body
and
said
to
hys
religyous
brotheren
/
knowe
ye
for
certayn
that
I
cam
fro
the
iugement
of
god
/
the
whiche
Judged
me
in
thys
manerr
.
And
recounted
to
them
alle
the
trouthe
.
and
after
said
.
I
praye
you
that
ye
wille
deliuere
to
me
apeni
for
to
restore
to
thys
brother
of
whom
I
toke
it
fro
and
assone
as
he
had
made
restytucion
the
sowle
departed
fro
hys
body
and
was
saued
in
heuen
/
¶
Example
.
It
it
is
red
of
Exam
a
theef
whyche
was
so
euill
that
there
was
no
murdre
ne
harme
doon
.
but
he
was
therat
&
dyde
it
/
It
happend
that
he
was
taken
and
by
iustyce
honged
for
the
euyl
feates
that
he
had
doon
and
after
ther
passed
by
a
knight
whiche
byhelde
this
thefe
and
said
to
his
men
ve●●ily
ther
hanged
a
fayre
persone
and
a
talle
man
.
wyl
ye
take
him
doun
.
ye
saide
they
/
and
they
toke
him
donn
fro
the
galowes
and
in
takyng
donn
the
theef
said
to
them
:
Alas
gentil
sires
I
praye
you
that
ye
take
me
donn
softli
For
I
am
not
deed
.
and
they
demaunded
hym
how
.
And
in
what
manere
he
had
abyden
ther
so
long
wythout
deyeng
and
he
ansuerd
to
them
that
whan
he
was
in
the
world
he
said
euery
day
v
pater
noster
&
v
aue
maria
.
in
the
honour
of
v
woundes
of
our
lord
.
and
thre
pater
noster
and
thre
Aue
maria
in
t
honour
of
the
trinite
and
that
nener
he
had
doon
other
goode
than
that
.
and
said
to
them
.
I
praye
you
that
ye
wyl
sende
to
me
aconfessour
.
and
so
dyde
they
.
And
thenne
he
confessed
him
and
was
saued
pedurably
.
¶
Of
Sacrilege
Capitulo
xlvij
IT
is
●●●●lege
whan
the
body
of
our
lord
is
vilaynously
treated
as
the
heretykes
doon
and
they
that
vse
sorceries
and
the
euyll
preestes
for
lucre
and
wynnyng
and
in
lyke
wyse
of
other
sacramentes
of
holy
chyrche
.
Also
whan
one
●●●leth
breketh
or
treateth
vylaynously
the
saynttuaries
.
the
crosse
.
the
chalyce
.
the
cresme
.
the
corporas
.
the
vestimentes
halowed
/
and
other
holy
thynges
whan
one
leyeth
in
●…th
and
maletalent
honde
on
ony
clerke
or
ony
persone
of
the
●…che
.
¶
Also
whan
one
taketh
ony
thyng
and
beryth
it
euylle
out
of
holy
place
/
be
it
halowed
or
not
halowed
.
¶
Item
yf
one
take
away
in
place
not
halowed
/
ony
thynge
halowed
it
is
saculege
/
and
in
lyke
wyse
of
thyng
not
halowed
out
of
halowed
place
¶
Of
thys
synne
be
not
quyte
they
that
dyspende
euyll
the
goodes
and
the
patrymonye
of
Jhesu
cryste
/
¶
Also
they
that
reteyne
by
theyr
euyl
auarice
that
whyche
they
ought
to
gyue
to
the
poure
or
to
put
in
good
vsage
¶
Of
Symonye
.
Ca
xlviij
THys
synne
is
called
Symonie
by
cause
of
an
enchaūcour
whyche
was
named
Symon
.
whyche
on
a
tyme
wold
haue
bonght
of
seynt
peter
the
appostle
the
grace
to
doo
miracles
.
to
th
ende
that
he
myght
the
better
selle
them
.
And
therfore
ben
they
called
Simonyaks
.
they
that
selle
or
bye
the
goods
spirituell
:
and
it
is
emonge
alle
the
dedely
synnes
the
grettest
.
For
spyritualte
is
gretter
than
temporalite
.
They
be
symonyakes
that
for
yeftes
or
for
promesses
or
for
praiers
or
for
carnalite
doo
so
moche
that
they
or
other
ben
.
helpers
to
dygnytees
of
holy
chirche
.
as
ben
bisshops
.
abbotes
/
or
other
dignitees
whiche
shold
be
made
by
election
.
Example
It
is
redde
of
an
abbot
Exam
that
whan
he
deyed
he
praied
and
counseilled
hys
monkes
that
they
shold
make
hys
neuew
abbot
after
him
and
so
they
dide
It
happed
on
a
time
that
this
abbot
wente
in
disportyng
him
allone
by
a
fontayne
that
was
in
his
gardin
¶
And
he
herd
a
wys
that
complained
him
sorowful
in
grete
complayntes
/
Thabbot
coniured
him
to
telle
him
what
he
was
&
he
said
that
it
was
the
soule
of
thyn
vncle
that
late
was
abbot
&
was
in
the
fountayne
merueilleusly
tormented
and
brent
/
by
cause
of
the
carnal
affeccion
and
loue
that
he
had
to
the.
by
cause
he
had
prayed
the
monkes
that
they
shold
make
the
abbot
after
hym
.
¶
Thabbot
ansuerd
to
hym
how
may
it
be
.
that
ye
suffre
suche
brennyng
in
this
fontaine
whiche
is
soo
attemperat
The
wys
prayed
hym
to
take
a
canstyk
of
coper
whiche
stode
behynd
the
aulter
.
and
caste
it
in
to
the
fontayne
/
And
he
shold
see
how
hoot
it
was
.
be
wente
and
brought
it
&
threw
it
in
:
and
anon
hit
was
molten
as
wax
that
is
in
the
fyre
/
or
butter
in
boyllyng
water
/
whan
th
abbot
had
seen
this
anon
he
renounced
his
abbotshyp
vnto
the
abbaye
/
and
neuer
after
was
the
wys
herd
Item
it
is
symonye
whan
for
yeftes
or
for
prayers
or
for
seruice
ben
gyuen
the
prebendes
/
the
cures
and
the
other
benefyces
of
holy
chyrche
Example
.
It
is
redde
in
the
Exam
book
of
peter
de
clugny
/
that
an
holy
man
was
prostrate
in
his
prayers
on
the
good
friday
.
whiche
was
rauisshed
in
spyrite
vnto
Ester
day
.
and
whan
he
was
comen
agayn
to
hymself
he
said
that
he
had
seen
in
purgatorye
a
man
deteyned
and
kept
.
by
cause
he
had
taken
:
xv
pound
/
os
a
clerke
whyche
was
of
the
yefte
of
hys
patrymonye
.
And
how
well
that
he
moche
repented
hym
at
hys
deth
and
had
comaunded
to
make
restitucyon
yet
neuertheles
he
was
moche
greuously
pugnysshyd
and
euery
day
he
was
constrayned
of
deuyllis
to
take
and
rendre
the
money
all
glowyng
of
fyre
.
Of
thys
synne
be
not
quyt
that
by
bargayn
maad
make
leue
or
change
theyr
benefices
/
ne
they
that
sayen
one
vnto
the
other
.
I
shal
doo
my
best
.
&
as
moche
as
I
may
to
my
power
that
thou
shalt
haue
my
benefyce
And
thou
shalt
in
lyke
wise
that
I
shal
haue
thyn
for
the
lawe
canon
saith
.
beware
saith
it
that
ther
be
noo
promesse
ne
couenaunt
made
.
But
they
may
saye
that
one
to
that
other
I
wold
wel
haue
thy
ben●fyce
and
thou
myn
.
&
signyfie
theyr
wyllys
to
the
bysshop
.
Item
they
that
by
bargaryn
made
entre
in
to
relygion
.
&
they
that
receyue
them
in
suche
maner
.
&
demaunde
of
them
diner
or
souper
/
or
ony
other
thyng
as
wel
for
the
chyrche
as
for
other
thing
ben
excomynied
by
the
lawe
canon
.
for
moche
people
ben
taried
and
withdrawen
for
to
entre
in
to
religyon
for
suche
thynges
as
ben
demanded
of
them
.
and
they
saye
that
it
is
the
custome
.
And
to
th
end
that
this
defence
be
the
better
holden
and
kepte
.
Pope
Urban
the
vj
made
a
decre
the
wyche
is
called
.
Ne
in
vinea
domini
.
&
pope
gregore
that
cam
after
coufermed
the
same
lyke
as
to fore
they
be
acursed
&
that
non
may
be
assoilled
.
but
yf
it
be
of
our
holy
fader
the
pope
of
rome
Ther
ben
many
other
dyuerse
maners
of
sinnes
and
of
dyuerse
caases
of
Symonye
/
whiche
apperteynen
more
to
the
clerkes
.
Than
to
the
laye
people
.
¶
And
this
booke
is
made
more
for
the
laye
men
than
for
the
clerkes
.
whyche
haue
bookes
.
But
neuertheles
it
is
nede
to
the
laye
men
.
that
they
kepe
them
fro
thys
synne
in
thre
caases
/
¶
The
fyrst
caas
is
whan
they
wyll
ayde
theyr
frendes
and
kynnysmen
to
ryse
to
dygnytees
of
holy
chyrche
.
¶
The
second
caas
is
whan
they
gyue
ony
prebendes
or
chapelles
.
¶
The
thyrde
caas
whan
they
put
theyr
chyldren
in
to
doystres
or
relygyon
¶
In
thyse
thre
caases
yf
they
gyue
or
receyue
ony
prouffyt
or
euyl
requestes
or
se●y●es
.
They
may
soone
falle
in
to
the
synne
of
symonye
whyche
is
an
ouer
grete
synne
.
¶
For
as
sayth
the
lawe
wreton
/
Ther
be
thre
maneres
of
yeftes
that
make
symonye
.
¶
That
is
to
wyte
yeftes
of
the
hondes
:
That
is
whan
is
gyuen
ony
thyng
portable
.
yefte
of
the
mouth
.
As
prayers
of
flaterye
or
euyl
reporte●
Yefte
of
semyce
dyshonneste
to
.
that
is
whan
it
is
made
by
dishoneste
or
pryncypally
for
thynges
perpetuel
/
¶
Of
dymes
.
or
tithes
/
Capitulo
xliiij
IT
is
syn●●
of
auarice
of
euyl
payeng
of
dy●●es
or
of
t●●hes
/
Thou
mayst
saye
.
Syre
I
knowe
not
wherof
I
ought
to
paye
dymes
ne
how
I
shold
paye
them
I
saye
vnto
the
that
thou
owest
tithes
of
thy
corn
of
thy
wine
of
thy
medewes
fruittes
/
beste
.
egges
/
marchaundise
.
and
of
all
the
gayne
and
wynnyng
that
thou
makest
in
what
manere
it
be
/
And
the
maistres
sayen
in
the
d●●it
or
lawe
that
the
vsurers
&
the
comyn
wymen
owen
to
tythe
of
theyr
wynning
but
theyo
wen
to
gyue
it
for
goodes
sake
to
the
poure
for
the
thyrche
ought
not
to
receyue
it
/
to
th
ende
that
the
chyrche
approue
not
theyr
synnes
ne
theyr
errour
.
Item
they
saye
yet
that
yf
alaye
man
haue
tythes
whiche
ben
hys
propre
that
he
ought
to
paye
tythe
to
the
chyrche
/
Thenne
thou
owest
to
paye
the
tenthe
parte
.
for
our
lord
saith
by
the
prophete
thou
shalt
paye
the
tenthe
parte
of
as
moche
as
thou
hast
.
And
the
pharisee
whiche
was
of
the
maystres
of
the
lawe
cam
in
to
the
temple
as
saith
the
gospel
&
sayd
that
he
payed
the
tenthe
of
all
that
he
had
&
note
well
that
the
holy
scripture
saith
not
the
xij
ne
the
●x
ne
the
xxx
:
but
the
droyt
or
lawe
saith
the
tenthe
and
the
d●●it
canon
saith
we
comande
and
ordeyne
straitly
that
the
dysmes
and
oblacōn●
of
vsurers
&
of
comyn
wymen
be
payed
to
the
chyrche
entyerly
.
to
th
ende
that
it
be
in
the
disposion
of
the
bysshoppes
&
that
they
that
reteyne
them
be
separate
fro
the
comynalte
of
the
chirche
&
excominyed
and
accursed
These
be
the
goodes
that
he
hath
of
god
that
wel
and
truli
yayeth
his
tythes
:
first
he
hath
habondaunce
of
fruyt
Item
he
hath
helthe
of
body
Item
he
hath
remission
of
his
synnes
Item
he
hath
the
royame
of
heuen
.
it
is
sinne
to
reteyne
the
right
of
holy
chyrche
&
to
reteyne
the
duet●es
of
them
that
ben
dede
it
is
auarice
/
for
it
is
gretter
sinne
than
to
robbe
them
that
ben
lyuyug
/
Example
:
it
is
redde
of
a
knyght
why
Exam
che
was
in
the
host
of
kyng
charlemayn
/
whiche
whan
he
shold
d●ye
said
to
one
his
neuewe
that
he
shold
selle
his
hors
and
gyue
the
mouey
therof
for
goodes
loue
to
the
poure
Hys
neuew
solde
the
hors
/
but
he
reteyned
the
money
/
¶
And
put
it
to
hys
owen
proffyt
.
xxx
.
dayes
after
he
appiered
to
his
neuewe
and
sayd
to
hym
know
thou
that
my
synnes
be
not
pardoned
by
cause
thou
hast
not
accomplysshyd
my
wyll
I
haue
ben
in
purgatone
:
&
now
goo
in
to
heuen
but
knowe
thou
that
thou
shalt
dere
abye
that
thou
hast
doon
to
me
/
the
same
day
the
neuewe
herd
a
grete
crye
as
it
had
be
of
lyons
and
of
wylde
bestes
and
was
taken
&
born
away
in
the
eyer
and
after
he
was
sought
xl
dayes
longe
/
but
he
was
not
found
.
It
happed
xiiij
dayes
after
the
batayll
of
Charlemayn
one
passed
thurth
the
royame
of
uauare
.
And
he
was
founden
fallen
fro
a
montayn
and
was
merueilloussely
all
to
frusshyd
Item
it
is
auarice
for
to
paye
euyl
the
droytes
and
rightes
that
belongyng
to
the
lordes
and.
to
hyde
&
kepe
secrete
that
whiche
is
due
to
them
:
the
heyres
whiche
reteyne
wel
wetyng
thynges
euyl
gooten
.
they
reteyne
it
to
theyr
dampnacyon
.
Example
.
We
rede
that
a
fader
Exam
and
his
sone
were
in
helle
.
and
eche
was
angry
and
chyde
eche
other
the
fader
said
to
his
sone
Acursyd
be
the
hour
&
the
daye
that
euer
I
engendred
the.
For
to
make
the
riche
/
and
sette
the
in
honour
I
haue
ben
a
couetous
vsurer
.
and
moche
auari●yous
the
sone
said
to
the
fader
Acursed
be
thou
fader
.
for
by
thy
counseil
I
haue
doon
moche
harme
and
many
euylles
.
for
whyche
I
am
dampned
.
Item
lordes
inges
/
aduocates
procurours
&
other
whiche
taken
of
other
by
euyl
can●e
or
for
salayre
that
is
gyuen
to
them
to
make
euyll
accordes
or
take
yefte
ayenst
raison
yf
they
rend●re
not
alle
whiche
they
haue
so
euyl
take
they
shal
be
tormented
in
helle
without
ende
.
It
is
red
of
an
euylle
aduocat
that
whan
was
brought
to
hym
the
body
of
our
lord
be
said
I
wyl
that
he
be
first
iuge
.
if
Jought
to
take
him
or
not
&
whan
it
is
said
to
him
it
was
right
that
thou
receiue
him
&
we
iuge
it
.
he
ansuerd
to
them
ye
be
not
my
iuges
&
in
saieng
I
appele
it
he
d●yd
in
that
estate
.
&
the
denyll
bare
the
soule
of
him
in
to
hell
.
Item
it
is
auarice
to
desire
a
●●re
tyme
for
to
sell
the
derrer
his
machaundise
/
For
to
sette
pouer
people
a
werke
for
ony
pr●est
that
hath
be
lent
h●m
/
wyhout
prayeng
theyr
hyres
for
the
day
iourney
.
for
to
euyl
vse
thyng
lente
or
hyred
or
put
in
kepyng
or
for
to
vse
it
in
other
manere
than
it
hath
be
lente
fore
/
or
for
to
paye
ouer
late
his
owen
werkmen
or
meyne
.
Item
for
make
ouermoche
sow
we
for
losses
of
goodes
of
this
world
For
god
whiche
wel
myght
haue
kept
if
he
had
wold
hath
suffred
it
.
for
to
see
yf
he
wyll
haue
pacyence
.
Theremye
the
prophete
sayth
that
fro
the
l●●●e
vnto
the
grettest
all
studye
in
auarice
.
Salamon
speketh
and
saith
,
I
see
saith
he
a
grete
euyl
in
the
world
for
many
ther
be
that
haue
no
chyldren
ne
bretheren
/
ne
sustrs
but
be
allone
&
yet
neuertheles
they
cesse
not
night
ne
day
to
hepe
and
gete
tresour
and
hauoyr
.
and
may
haue
no
reste
.
And
it
happeth
ofte
that
they
that
doo
nothyng
/
but
r●ste
them
and
be
ydell
ben
theyr
heyres
and
despende
largely
that
of
whyche
that
they
dare
not
doo
/
For
the
scripture
saith
that
al
so
well
lacketh
to
the
riche
auaricious
that
whiche
he
hath
.
as
that
whiche
he
hath
not
.
Example
.
It
is
redde
in
the
myracles
of
our
lady
that
at
rome
was
an
archedeken
whiche
was
named
Peter
the
whiche
was
a
good
man
.
but
he
was
ouer
moche
holdyng
after
the
deth
of
his
brother
.
the
whiche
was
named
Stephen
.
and
by
reuelacyon
dyuine
he
sawe
hym
in
purgatorye
greuously
tormented
:
by
cause
he
had
ben
so
strait
in
kepyng
.
Thenne
he
said
to
his
brother
whiche
had
hope
to
be
delyuered
out
of
purgatorie
yf
the
pope
and
the
cardinallis
songen
eche
amasse
for
hym
he
shold
be
delyuerd
And
so
dyde
they
and
was
delyuerd
Some
ther
be
that
of
suche
goodes
as
they
haue
they
dare
not
vse
ne
despende
them
for
the
wele
of
theyr
soule
ne
of
theyr
body
but
tarie
&
abyde
that
theyr
chyldren
doo
for
them
after
their
deth
verely
it
is
grete
folye
to
the.
yf
thou
wene
that
thyn
heyres
doo
wel
for
the
of
thy
good
whan
thou
wylt
doo
no
thyng
thy self
/
considere
yf
thou
haue
ony
wytte
that
the
children
Exam
doo
at
this
day
right
litel
for
their
faders
.
Exāyle
.
we
rede
of
a
moche
riche
man
whiche
had
iij
sones
the
〈◊〉
were
mar●ed
:
&
the
yongest
was
not
/
it
happed
that
he
was
moche
sekey
supposed
to
haue
deyed
.
&
called
his
iij
sones
&
said
to
the
oldest
Fayre
sone
sayd
he
.
I
haue
had
g●ete
payne
to
brynge
the
to
honour
I
praye
the
that
thou
saye
to
me
what
good
wylt
thou
doo
for
me
whan
I
am
deed
.
The
sone
ansuerd
to
him
I
promyse
to
you
fader
that
I
shal
doo
make
a
chapelle
in
whyche
euery
day
shal
be
songen
a
masse
for
your
soule
.
Fayr
sone
sayd
the
fader
that
is
a
fayr
promesse
/
After
he
sayd
to
the
second
Fayr
sone
I
haue
doon
so
moche
for
the
that
thou
art
●che
&
wel
maryed
.
what
shal
thou
doo
for
me
after
my
deth
/
I
promese
to
you
fader
said
he
I
shal
doo
founde
ij
chapeles
in
whiche
shal
be
souge
euery
day
masse
for
you
/
&
in
middle
of
the
ij
chapellis
I
shal
make
an
almesse
hous
in
whiche
the
poure
shal
be
herberowed
whiche
shal
praye
for
you
.
Fayre
sone
sayde
the
fader
this
is
a
right
noble
promesse
/
After
this
he
said
to
hys
yongest
sone
/
Fayr
sone
and
what
shalt
thou
doo
for
me
whan
I
shal
be
deed
.
I
promese
you
fader
said
he
I
shal
doo
as
moche
for
you
as
my
two
brethern
.
how
mayst
thou
doo
soo
fayre
sone
sayd
the
fader
thou
art
not
maryed
ne
art
not
so
riche
as
they
ben
.
my
fader
said
he
.
I
shal
doo
it
wel
.
For
of
all
that
they
haue
promysed
they
shal
doo
nothyng
And
therfore
I
saye
to
you
I
shal
doo
allone
as
moche
as
they
bothe
to
gydre
:
Fader
said
he
truste
not
on
vs
but
whylles
that
ye
be
maister
and
owner
.
doo
for
your self
.
Ther
be
many
that
tarye
tyl
they
be
at
th
ende
of
theyr
deth
for
to
doo
well
for
theyr
soules
.
And
thenne
gyue
by
cause
they
may
bere
nothyng
wyth
them
/
And
note
well
that
it
shal
be
more
auaillable
in
thy
lyf
to
gyue
a
lytylle
peny
for
the
loue
of
god
.
than
thou
gauest
a
montayne
of
gold
at
thy
deth
.
for
whan
the
frendes
see
that
they
make
gr●te
testamentes
and
grete
ordynaunces
they
say
to
them
leue
all
this
and
thinke
to
be
hole
.
ye
shal
not
deye
yet
yf
it
plaise
god
.
And
yf
ye
dye
/
we
shal
doo
more
for
you
than
ye
saye
.
And
whan
they
shal
be
deed
.
they
shal
doo
right
lytyl
or
nought
.
Thus
ben
the
fooles
deceyued
And
therfore
saith
saint
austyn
Abyde
not
vnto
the
deth
for
to
amende
thy self
ne
for
to
doo
wel
for
thy
richesses
whiche
thou
hast
so
moche
loued
shal
assaille
●he
on
an
other
part
thou
shal
be
so
troubled
that
lytil
or
nought
shal
thou
remembre
on
thy
soule
.
Som
there
ben
that
haue
corne
/
wyne
malt
fruites
or
thynge
that
may
be
eten
.
or
somme
olde
clothes
or
vesture
whyche
had
leuer
kepe
them
tyl
they
●●te
or
goo
to
nought
.
than
gyue
them
to
the
poure
neyhbours
or
kynnesmen
/
or
to
the
poure
for
goddes
sake
.
I
wyl
not
saye
/
but
they
may
be
wel
kept
by
reson
but
it
is
auarice
and
grete
sinne
to
kepe
ony
thyng
tyl
it
be
●oten
of
lost
so
that
none
may
be
h●lpen
therby
.
¶
Of
forboden
playes
as
of
dyse
and
quardes
/
Capitulo
●
IT
is
auarice
to
playe
euyl
games
as
be
atte
dyse
or
●ardes
or
at
tables
or
other
forboden
games
what
someuer
they
be
where
is
played
for
money
or
other
temporel
gayne
.
suche
euyl
games
as
of
dyse
and
of
tables
ben
forboden
by
the
lawe
and
droites
for
many
synnes
yssuen
out
of
them
.
Fyrst
to
wynne
and
despoille
hys
felawe
/
It
is
ouer
grete
vsure
to
lene
xj
for
xij
not
for
viij
dayes
ne
a
moneth
but
at
one
caste
.
or
one
day
/
Item
to
multiplie
lesynges
and
euyl
wordes
and
that
werse
is
to
saye
grete
blasphemyes
to
god
and
to
his
blessyd
moder
and
to
the
saintes
of
heuen
wherof
god
is
wroth
so
that
oftimes
he
hath
taken
sodain
vengeance
.
For
somtime
he
hath
torned
the
vysage
/
the
former
parte
to
be
behynd
.
Example
:
Exam
A
knyght
ther
was
on
a
tyme
whiche
swere
in
grete
angre
in
his
playe
by
the
eyen
of
god
and
anon
hys
eyen
fyl
out
of
hys
hede
vpon
the
tablyer
/
Item
they
gyue
an
ylle
example
to
them
that
beholde
the
game
.
Item
they
lose
theyr
tyme
.
for
they
shold
employe
it
in
good
werkes
.
Ther
ben
many
other
synnes
whiche
shold
be
ouer
longe
to
recounte
.
But
I
ought
not
to
forgete
one
thyng
that
ther
is
/
For
they
that
wynne
ought
not
to
reteyne
the
gayne
that
they
wynne
.
but
they
ought
to
gyue
it
for
the
loue
of
god
or
to
doo
by
the
counseil
of
hys
confessour
.
but
yf
it
so
were
that
he
had
goten
by
barate
.
by
deceyte
/
by
force
or
that
he
made
hym
to
playe
ayenst
his
wylle
for
in
these
caases
he
onght
to
restore
it
hym
that
hath
lost
it
.
Example
/
It
Exam
is
redde
that
a
cristen
man
on
a
tyme
playd
wyth
a
Jewe
and
the
cristen
man
sware
so
ho●●bly
that
the
iewe
myght
not
here
it
.
and
stopped
his
eres
and
lefte
the
playe
:
and
fledde
home
to
hys
hows
¶
Of
the
yefte
of
counseil
ayenst
auarice
Ca
lj
Lyke
as
the
holy
ghoost
gyueth
force
and
vygour
●en●reprise
grete
thynges
/
right
so
gyueth
he
counseyl
by
whiche
one
cometh
to
a
good
bygynnyng
and
to
a
good
ende
of
that
he
enterpriseth
/
It
is
a
grete
grace
whan
the
holi
ghoost
gyueth
the
yefte
whiche
is
called
the
yefte
of
counseyl
/
by
whyche
a
man
may
haue
delyberacion
in
that
whyche
he
enterpryseth
to
th
end
that
he
be
not
ouer
hasty
in
his
entreprises
.
For
lyke
as
ypo●●as
saith
of
hassty
counseyl
men
repente
soone
after
&
therfor
salamon
saith
doo
no
thyng
wihout
counseyl
that
is
to
saye
counseyl
delibered
/
and
forseen
▪
and
thou
shalt
not
repentethe
/
The
most
proufytable
counseyl
that
a
man
may
haue
is
that
whiche
god
gyueth
in
the
gospell
whan
he
saieth
yf
thou
wyl
be
parfyght
goo
and
selle
alle
that
thou
hast
and
gyue
it
to
the
poure
and
come
folowe
me
/
and
thou
shalt
haue
grete
tresour
in
henen
.
this
is
the
right
path
of
pouerte
.
for
the
holy
ghoost
ledeth
hym
that
is
enlumyned
wyth
the
yefte
of
counseyl
/
neuertheles
as
touchyng
the
richesses
of
the
world
a
man
may
wel
be
saued
that
useth
them
wel
as
Abraham
.
Jacob
/
Job
.
and
Dauid
.
and
many
other
that
were
moche
riche
in
theyre
lyf
for
they
were
not
subgette
to
their
rychesses
.
but
to
god
and
the
holy
ghoost
ledeth
the
creature
&
conduyteth
by
the
yefte
of
counseyl
to
his
sauacyon
/
but
yet
he
ledeth
the
more
righter
way
&
more
holy
by
the
path
of
very
pouerte
by
whiche
the
world
is
despised
&
all
couetise
for
the
loue
of
god
.
this
yefte
plucheth
out
of
the
herte
the
sinne
of
ana●●ce
&
of
couetise
.
and
planteth
ther
a
moche
faire
tree
that
is
the
vertue
of
mercy
whiche
is
to
haue
sorowe
pyte
and
compassyon
of
others
harme
and
suffraunce
¶
Of
the
synne
of
glotonnye
Capitulo
●ij
IT
is
synne
of
glotonnye
to
ete
&
drinke
ouermoche
glotonnously
.
&
out
of
houre
&
tyme
ordeyned
without
hungre
or
without
thurst
▪
or
for
to
ete
somtym
for
to
drink
the
better
and
more
than
nede
requyreth
ouermoch
to
slepe
&
ouermoche
to
reste
or
ouer
tendrely
to
nourissh
his
body
&
to
seche
other
eases
without
necessite
.
to
ete
&
drinke
aboue
other
.
&
make
him self
dronke
.
It
is
grete
sinne
dedely
whan
one
is
ther
in
accustomed
▪
for
yf
ther
had
neuer
ben
dronkenesse
.
ther
had
neuer
ben
seruytude
ne
bondage
for
by
dronkenesse
cam
fyrst
seruytude
.
&
bondage
Example
.
We
rede
in
holy
scripture
the
first
Exam
boke
of
the
byble
.
that
whan
noe
had
planted
the
vygne
and
dronken
of
the
wine
he
was
therof
all
dronke
.
so
that
he
laye
naked
in
hys
tabernacle
that
his
humayne
membres
were
seen
and
his
sone
cam
sawe
it
.
and
shewd
it
to
his
brethern
sem
&
Japhet
/
in
mockyng
his
fader
and
not
couerd
it
/
the
whiche
camen
and
hydde
theyr
eyen
/
to
th
end
that
they
shold
not
see
theyr
faders
humanyte
.
and
couerd
it
.
whan
noe
was
sobre
and
out
of
hys
dronkenesse
&
knewe
what
his
sone
Cam
had
do
soo
he
said
to
him
/
¶
I
wyll
that
thou
be
serf
&
bonde
to
thy
brethern
.
&
ther
began
first
seruytude
&
bondage
.
certainly
moche
harme
&
many
euyllis
comen
by
dronknesse
.
for
after
that
a
man
is
dronke
he
hath
lost
his
wytte
/
&
is
not
his
owen
.
but
is
to
another
that
is
to
saye
to
the
deuyl
of
helle
.
yf
god
calle
him
not
by
grace
.
Example
.
we
rede
that
ther
was
an
Exam
hermyte
of
right
good
lyf
&
holy
&
of
right
grete
abstinence
/
It
happed
that
the
deuyl
deceyued
hym
/
and
said
to
him
that
he
wold
neuer
leue
hym
in
peas
yf
he
dyde
not
one
of
thre
dedely
synnes
/
and
that
he
shold
chese
whyche
he
wold
leue●t
doo
and
that
was
he
shold
chese
.
whether
he
wold
doo
fornycacion
or
ellis
manslanghter
.
or
to
be
dronken
.
the
hermite
whiche
was
a
symple
man
byleued
the
deuyl
and
said
that
he
had
liene●t
to
make
hym self
dronke
for
hym
semed
therin
shold
be
comysed
the
le●t
●inne
.
and
nygh
to
his
hermytage
was
a
myllar
whom
he
loued
moche
and
was
hys
godsyb
.
the
whiche
desired
the
her
myte
to
come
dyne
wyth
hym
at
his
hous
.
the
hermite
thought
that
ther
he
wold
acquyte
him
to
the
deuyl
and
wente
and
dyned
wyth
his
godsyb
they
ete
&
dranke
so
moche
that
t
hermite
and
hys
godsyb
were
alle
dronke
:
the
hermite
wold
haue
retorned
to
his
hermitage
.
but
he
wente
all
relyng
hyther
&
thyther
The
millar
said
to
his
wyf
that
she
shold
lede
hym
home
whan
they
were
wel
on
the
way
.
the
wyf
satte
doun
on
the
grounde
and
slepte
:
the
hermyte
whyche
was
dronke
leyed
hym
doun
and
had
company
with
hyr
flesshly
The
millar
sawe
that
fro
hys
mylle
.
and
toke
a
glayue
&
went
toward
t
hermite
for
to
haue
slain
hym
the
hermite
toke
the
glayue
fro
him
and
slewe
hym
:
Now
seest
thou
how
by
dronknesse
comen
many
euyllys
he
supposed
to
haue
doon
but
one
sinne
but
he
comysed
thre
grete
synnes
.
he
was
dronke
/
he
knewe
carnally
his
godsyb
and
he
slewe
hyr
husb●nd
whiche
also
was
his
godsyb
It
ys
glotonnye
to
dyspende
euylly
or
more
than
apparteineth
to
hys
astate
They
that
dyspende
the
goodes
that
they
haue
at
vttrannce
for
to
haue
renomme
that
they
ben
large
and
valyant
peple
▪
they
shal
be
greuously
pugnysshid
and
shal
rendre
strayt
acomptes
to
god
whiche
had
lente
them
for
to
put
to
good
vsage
and
Exam
for
to
gete
heuen
therwith
.
¶
Example
.
Saint
gregore
reherceth
in
his
dyalogue
of
a
monke
named
Theodore
the
whiche
was
supposed
.
to
haue
ben
sobre
but
the
ete
in
hernes
it
happed
that
he
was
seke
and
cried
strongly
saieng
that
the
deuyllis
ete
his
hondes
as
dragons
And
that
they
had
eten
alredy
hys
feet
and
so
saieng
deyde
/
¶
Of
fastinges
and
of
them
that
owen
to
faste
Ca
liij
It
is
glotonnye
&
dedely
synne
to
breke
the
fastes
of
lente
of
the
quatre
temps
or
ymbryng
dayes
of
vigyles
and
of
other
fastynges
commanded
yf
they
be
▪
not
ouer
olde
ne
vnder
the
age
of
x●
yere
.
or
labourers
that
other
wyse
may
not
lyue
wymen
grete
wyth
chyld
&
nounces
in
cas
that
the
chydren
shold
fare
the
werse
.
poure
beggars
whiche
otherwyse
may
not
lyue
:
seke
men
they
that
laboure
by
the
way
by
necessyte
they
that
make
grete
werkes
and
may
not
reste
ne
leue
.
Alle
these
persones
ben
excused
of
fastyng
:
but
it
shold
be
good
for
them
/
that
they
shold
praye
or
doo
som
good
in
stede
of
fasting
&
yf
ony
whyche
is
not
excused
of
fastyng
felte
him
in
place
that
he
were
seke
by
the
leue
of
his
curate
or
of
his
good
confessour
whyche
hath
power
to
chaunge
his
fast
in
to
other
good
werke
may
charge
hym
therwyth
in
stede
of
fastyng
but
yf
he
may
fast
/
he
may
not
chaunge
it
.
&
he
ought
to
sette
suche
a
perso●e
to
fasting
dayes
comaunded
for
to
obeye
to
holy
chyrche
:
for
obedience
is
more
worth
than
ony
other
thyng
for
foure
grete
p●●nffites
comen
therof
as
is
said
in
the
preface
of
the
masse
in
lente
.
Qui
corporali
ieiunio
.
for
it
maketh
to
doo
penaunce
for
synnes
that
haue
be
doon
:
&
it
kepyth
one
the
better
fro
synne
/
&
the
herte
is
the
more
deuout
to
our
lord
&
god
giueth
grace
&
vertue
&
gret
reward
&
guerdon
in
the
ende
/
seynt
ihe●●me
saith
that
whan
thou
fastest
.
thou
oughtest
to
gyue
for
the
loue
of
god
that
whyche
thou
sholdest
ete
.
yf
thou
fastest
not
to
th
ende
that
of
thy
fastyng
.
thy
soule
shold
be
fedde
/
and
not
for
to
spare
.
Example
we
Exam
rede
of
a
riche
man
whyche
myght
not
faste
/
but
euery
day
he
ete
in
the
mornyng
.
and
made
poure
men
to
ete
wyth
hym
&
be
said
to
our
lord
lord
yf
thou
reproeue
me
atte
the
day
of
d●
me
.
of
that
I
ete
on
mornynges
I
shal
reprehende
the
/
for
thou
etest
wyth
me
/
Glotonnye
of
the
tongue
is
to
speke
in
the
chyrche
in
the
tyme
of
the
seruyce
of
god
.
and
to
lette
the
other
&
to
them
that
ben
acursed
:
but
yf
it
be
in
caas
of
whyche
we
haue
spoken
tofore
in
the
chapitre
of
sentences
of
excomynyng
others
secrete
to
telle
and
shewe
.
to
speke
euyl
&
shrewd
wordes
to
here
gladly
ony
preysinges
flateues
or
euil
reportes
.
to
mocke
skor
ne
:
or
saye
euyl
&
curse
other
.
for
seint
James
repreueth
strongly
them
that
sayen
euyl
/
to
promyse
thyng
resonable
&
not
to
hold
it
to
swere
by
the
sonne
by
the
mone
by
the
fyre
by
water
by
the
brede
by
the
wyne
.
or
by
semblable
othes
&
to
saye
ydle
wordes
whyche
may
not
prouffyte
yf
thou
wylt
speke
&
saie
welle
thynke
twyes
on
the
thyng
tofore
thou
saye
or
speke
it
.
¶
Of
the
yefte
of
sapieuce
&
sobrenes
ayenst
glotonnie
ca.
liiij
The
most
hye
of
the
vij
yeftes
of
the
holi
ghoost
and
the
most
souerayn
ys
the
yefte
/
of
sapyence
and
of
sobrenes
It
ys
a
grace
that
the
holy
ghoost
gyueth
to
an
herte
contē
platyf
.
by
cause
it
is
so
nyghe
the
loue
of
god
.
that
he
d●syreth
not
ne
secheth
ony
other
thyng
but
to
see
/
haue
.
and
delyte
hymself
and
duelle
wyth
hym
Thys
is
the
some
of
perfectōn
and
the
ende
of
contemplacyon
and
maketh
one
to
saye
.
knowe
.
&
fele
him
as
by
taste
.
Ther
be
many
cristen
bothe
derkes
layemen
men
whyche
ly●l
know
god
by
fayth
ne
by
scupture
by
cause
they
haue
the
taste
disordynate
by
synne
they
may
not
wel
sauoure
hym
/
nemore
than
a
seke
man
fyndeth
sanour
in
good
mete
the
yefte
of
sapyence
purgeth
and
clenseth
parfy●htly
all
fylthe
and
ordure
of
synne
:
&
lyfteth
vp
the
spyryte
of
a
manin
suche
wyse
that
he
ioyneth
hym
to
god
by
the
glue
of
loue
soo
that
he
is
all
wyth
god
there
he
is
pleasyd
.
There
he
is
nourrisshed
in
grace
and
in
d●lyte
.
Thys
is
the
lyf
perdurable
for
the
whyche
to
haue
ought
one
to
lyue
sobrely
in
thys
world
.
As
sayth
saynt
austyn
Sobwnes
is
the
vertue
whyche
is
the
yefte
of
sapyence
in
the
herte
ayenst
the
oultrage
of
glotonnye
/
for
Salamon
sayth
that
sapyence
enseyneth
sobrenes
/
¶
Sobrenes
is
a
tree
moche
precyous
for
it
kepeth
the
helthe
of
the
soule
and
of
the
body
lyke
as
sayth
the
holy
scripture
Of
glotonnye
and
oultrage
of
dunkyng
and
etyng
ouer
moche
.
comen
many
maladyes
/
And
oftymes
deth
taketh
them
whan
they
haue
the
morsel
in
theyr
mouth
.
lyke
as
on
taketh
the
fysshe
with
the
hoke
.
This
yefte
is
behynde
in
th
ordre
of
the
vij
yeftes
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
but
it
is
sette
here
by
ca●se
it
is
〈◊〉
t●●lot●nnye
whiche
is
the
v●
of
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
●●ly
sg●●es
after
the
〈◊〉
of
holy
chyrche
¶
Of
the
synne
of
letherie
Capitulo
.
lv
OF
the
synne
of
letherye
we
haue
sayd
.
to fore
in
the
fysthe
and
tenthe
comandementis
of
the.
lawe
but
▪
furthermore
knowe
ye
that
payntyng
or
poppyng
of
vysages
▪
wanton
and
enyl
beholdyng
and
rega●des
kyssynges
enbracynges
&
dishonest
touchynges
ben
cause
of
thys
synne
.
and
therfore
who
soo
wyl
kepe
hym
well
/
lete
hym
flee
and
●s●he
we
these
thynges
/
and
all
the
companyes
by
whiche
he
might
falle
in
thys
sgnne
for
the
wyse
man
saith
that
thyng
whiche
the
eyen
see
not
.
the
herte
co●eyteth
not
.
and
yf
ony
thought
or
temptacōne
com
on
the
anon
put
thy self
in
prayer
&
do●
abstinence
for
god
saith
in
the
gospel
that
these
ben
the
thynges
by
whyche
thys
synne
is
most
vaynquysshed
.
and
yf
temptacyon
come
to
the
in
thy
bedde
.
arise
out
therof
and
put
the
in
prayer
.
and
incontynent
the
fende
shal
leue
to
tempte
the
they
that
putchasse
by
consentyng
or
helpen
to
the
synne
of
lecherye
synne
dedely
.
these
yong
men
and
yong
wymen
that
araye
them
fresshely
and
shewe
them
in
th
endent
that
they
shold
be
seen
and
byholden
/
make
of
theyr
bodyes
grynnes
and
ne●tes
of
the
deuyll
for
to
take
them
/
&
b●nge
them
to
this
synne
that
soo
beholde
them
/
in
thys
sinne
be
many
braunches
whiche
may
lyghtly
be
knowen
.
but
emonge
alle
other
¶
Ther
is
one
whiche
is
callyd
synne
ayenste
uature
for
it
is
doon
ayenst
the
ordynaunce
of
nature
in
thys
branche
ther
be
many
other
/
the
first
is
whan
a
man
or
woman
allone
of
hym self
by
his
soul
touchyng
of
hys
propre
wylle
doooth
it
aduysely
wakyng
he
falleth
in
the
ordure
of
this
synne
wherof
symple
preestes
may
not
assoylle
them
/
for
by
cause
of
the
grauyte
it
is
remy●ed
to
the
bysshops
or
to
theyr
lyeutena
n●tes
and
penytenders
/
Alle
the
other
branches
ben
so
abhomynabl●
and
so
horrible
that
they
ought
not
be
named
&
therfore
I
passe
ouer
to
wryte
them
/
stor
they
that
be
eutached
of
them
ben
worthy
to
deye
as
sayth
/
saynt
poul
▪
and
they
shal
be
dombe
atte
day
of
dome
to
fore
god
lyke
as
dombe
bestes
ben
/
yf
they
.
a
merde
them
not
by
confession
and
by
penance
suche
/
as
perteyneth
to
the
synne
/
also
lytyl
chyldren
doo
theyr
power
after
theyr
lytyl
wytte
to
be
that
one
wyth
that
other
/
and
somtyme
alle
openly
they
ought
to
be
confessed
..
how
wel
that
the
chyld
lese
not
the
virgymte
but
yf
it
be
of
snche
age
that
it
knowe
wel
Exam
that
the
ftesshe
hath
be
corrupte
/
Example
.
It
is
redde
in
the
lyf
of
faders
/
that
a
good
man
had
a
yong
dyscyple
whom
the
deuyl
tempted
strongly
.
The
good
man
apperceyued
it
well
and
said
to
hym
fayre
sone
yf
thou
wylt
I
shal
praye
god
for
the
to
th
ende
that
he
wyll
take
fro
the
this
temptacion
/
the
whyche
ansuerd
ye
.
neuertheses
I
file
the
fruyt
that
cometh
therof
/
For
I
faste
t●e
more
and
entende
better
to
praye
and
to
wakyng
.
than
I
shold
doo
yf
I
were
not
tempted
.
but
I
pray
you
that
ye
praye
to
god
for
me
.
to
the
ende
that
he
wyl
gyue
me
grace
that
I
may
defende
me
vygorously
ayenst
the
fende
of
helle
¶
Of
the
yefte
of
vnderstondyng
ay●nst
lecherye
/
Ca
/
lvj
THe
yefte
of
vnderstondyng
.
is
non
other
thyng
after
the
doctours
but
a
lyght
and
a
dernes
of
grace
whiche
the
holy
ghoost
sendeth
to
the
herte
of
the
persone
by
whyche
the
vnder
stondyug
of
a
man
is
left
vp
to
knowe
his
maker
.
and
the
spirituel
thynges
Thys
yefte
is
called
lyght
/
For
it
purgeth
the
vnderstondyng
of
a
man
of
the
errour
of
deckenes
of
ygnoraunce
:
and
of
tatches
of
synnes
.
to
th
ende
that
the
sonle
enlumined
wyth
the
lyght
of
vnderstondyng
may
see
and
know
god
:
and
all
that
/
that
is
of
necessite
and
necessarie
to
his
saluacyon
.
thys
is
the
blessidnes
of
whiche
god
speketh
in
the
gospel
whan
he
sayth
.
They
ben
wel
blessyd
that
be
clene
of
herte
.
for
they
shal
see
god
in
the
vysage
.
in
thys
world
by
fayth
enlumined
and
enforced
by
the
yefte
of
vnderstondyng
and
after
the
deth
they
shal
see
hym
in
heuen
all
clerly
face
to
face
lyke
as
sayth
saynt
poul
/
Thys
yefte
taketh
away
alle
ordure
fro
the
hert
.
and
maketh
clene
perfyghtly
fro
alle
tatches
of
lecherye
for
who
that
is
entatched
of
thys
synne
/
he
is
verily
blynd
&
hath
lost
the
●yen
of
the
herte
.
reson
and
vnderstondyng
:
&
so
he
may
not
vnderstonde
to
know
his
maker
ne
thing
touchyng
his
saluacyon
/
but
is
lyke
a
dombe
beste
whyche
hath
.
neyther
wytte
ne
reason
in
hym self
wherof
dauyd
sayth
in
the
psaulter
that
a
man
to
whom
god
hath
doon
so
grete
honour
as
to
haue
made
hym
.
lyke
to
hys
ymage
and
semblaunce
whyche
he
not
made
ony
other
beste
and
so
forgeteth
hys
maker
and
doth
to
hym self
so
grete
shame
that
he
is
bycome
semblable
to
dombe
bestes
whyche
haue
noo
vnderstondyng
The
synne
whiche
most
maketh
a
man
to
semble
a
foul
beste
and
vyle
is
the
synne
of
lecherie
thenne
the
yefte
of
vnderstandyng
whyche
is
contrarie
specyally
ayenst
thys
fylthe
:
plucketh
and
putteth
out
of
the
herte
the
synne
of
lecherie
.
and
setdeth
there
a
moche
fayre
tree
that
is
the
vertu
of
Chast●te
by
the
whyche
one
may
come
to
thys
blessydnes
/
whyche
god
promyteth
to
▪
them
that
kepe
clennesse
of
herte
whan
he
sayd
.
blessyd
be
they
for
they
shal
see
god
by
cause
they
haue
wel
purged
and
enlumyned
the
eyen
of
theyr
herte
wyth
the
yefte
of
the
vnderstandyng
/
¶
Of
the
good
dedes
whyhe
be
doon
in
dedely
synne
Cap.
lvij
Thou
oughtest
to
knowe
that
prayer
ne
non
other
good
dede
that
is
doon
in
dedely
synne
is
nothyng
worth
ne
prouffyth
to
him
that
do●th
it
as
touchyng
to
haue
heuen
for
yf
he
deye
in
suche
estate
he
shal
be
dampued
but
neuertheles
for
all
that
In
what
estate
someuera
man
be
he
ought
not
to
leue
to
doo
wel
.
thou
oughtest
to
know
that
praiers
&
the
other
good
dedes
that
ben
doon
in
dedely
sinne
auayllen
to
iij
thiges
.
the
first
is
that
bysuche
good
werkes
god
callyth
the
more
soner
a
sinnar
to
the
state
of
grace
.
this
is
a
grete
thyng
&
a
gret
godenes
.
The
ij
is
whan
that
the
synner
deyeth
in
suche
estate
/
he
shal
be
dampned
.
but
for
the
good
d●des
that
he
had
doon
in
this
estate
he
shal
haue
the
lasse
payne
in
helle
/
and
therfore
saith
a
wyse
man
.
yf
I
knowe
certainly
that
I
shold
be
dampned
wherfro
god
kepe
vs
all
▪
yet
for
alle
that
I
wold
not
leue
to
doo
wel
.
but
verily
I
shold
enforce
me
to
doo
better
and
better
.
The
chylde
is
that
for
suche
good
dedes
.
the
goodes
temporal
/
&
the
worldly
werkes
that
ben
for
to
doo
in
the
wold
shold
preue
the
better
/
and
ben
the
more
in
auayll
.
¶
Of
the
seuen
sacramentes
of
holy
chyrche
Capitulo
lviij
THe
fyrst
is
of
bapteme
oftimes
by
ygnoraunce
or
neclygence
ben
the
sacraments
of
holy
chyrche
mesprised
&
euyll
doon
therfore
we
shal
saye
som
what
for
the
symple
peple
Baptesme
is
the
fyrst
sacrament
&
euery
persone
in
nede
may
baptise
and
custene
and
is
of
as
grete
auayll
.
as
yf
the
prest
had
baptised
soo
that
these
wordes
that
folowe
be
sayd
/
I
baptyse
the
in
the
name
of
the
fader
and
of
the
sone
and
of
the
holy
ghoost
and
the
persone
that
shal
saye
these
wordes
muste
caste
the
water
vpon
the
child
and
non
other
and
he
muste
saye
the
wordes
in
castyng
the
water
and
yf
in
peull
of
childyng
the
hede
of
the
chylde
appere
and
yf
a
persone
baptyse
that
it
is
verely
cristened
For
in
the
hede
of
the
chyld
ben
the
v
wyttes
of
nature
and
yf
ony
other
membre
appere
and
not
the
hede
/
And
it
be
cristened
we
hope
that
our
lord
acomplisshyth
the
baptesme
and
performeth
that
whyche
humayne
persone
may
not
doo
.
and
yf
the
chyld
be
born
and
haue
lyf
the
preest
ought
to
baptyse
it
sayeng
yf
thou
art
not
baptised
I
baptyse
the
in
the
name
of
the
fader
and
of
the
sone
and
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
Thou
oughtest
to
knowe
that
wyth
wyne
wyth
veriuse
.
rose
water
olyue
water
.
or
wyth
ony
other
lycour
it
may
not
be
baptysed
but
it
byhoueth
that
it
be
natural
water
¶
Of
confirmacion
Capitulo
llx
THe
second
●acratnent
is
confirmacion
the
whiche
some
men
calle
cresmyng
.
Euery
persone
that
hath
vnderstondyng
ought
to
receyue
thys
sacrament
For
by
this
sacrament
beu
put
in
the
soule
of
hym
that
receyueth
it
worthyly
the
seuen
yeftes
of
the
holy
ghoost
by
whyche
he
is
armed
ayenst
th
assaultes
of
the
fende
of
helle
alle
they
that
haue
not
receyued
thys
sacrament
and
haue
vnderstandyng
ben
in
peull
to
be
oueroo
men
of
the
fende
of
helle
by
dedely
synne
.
Thys
sacrament
ought
we
not
receyue
but
one
tyme
yf
ony
knowe
not
yf
he
had
receyued
it
or
not
.
he
myght
wel
receyne
it
For
the
thyng
is
not
vnderstonde
to
be
doo
agayn
.
whan
that
he
knoweth
not
whether
it
be
doon
or
not
¶
Of
the
sacrament
of
the
aulter
Capitulo
.
lx
THe
thirde
sacrament
is
the
sacrament
of
the
aulter
/
our
lord
whiche
for
the
loue
of
vs
is
bioomen
man
and
suffred
deth
and
passyon
right
anguysshous
in
the
trre
of
the
crosse
for
vs
.
yet
for
more
ardently
to
shewe
thys
brennyng
loue
and
that
we
shold
haue
hym
in
perpetuell
mynde
and
specially
hys
blessyd
passyon
.
he
hath
establysshed
a
superlatyf
sacrament
of
loue
that
is
of
his
precious
body
and
of
hys
precyous
blood
.
In
whyche
hym self
is
all
conteyned
and
to
whyche
he
gyueth
hym self
to
vs
vnto
the
ende
of
the
world
lyke
as
he
pr●mysed
to
his
apostles
.
god
said
that
he
shal
he
wel
blessyd
that
shall
write
all
the
alyan̄ees
amorouses
in
hys
herte
.
And
ofte
recorde
and
remembre
them
in
thys
blessyd
sacrament
▪
whyche
is
the
lyf
of
angelles
and
of
seintes
/
by
whome
we
haue
spyrituelly
&
be
by
the
grace
in
ihesu
crist
and
he
in
vs
and
whom
yf
we
receyue
hym
wordily
we
shal
haue
the
lyf
perdurable
in
heuen
wyth
hym
.
the
whiche
conteyneth
in
him
many
merueilles
and
many
sygnes
of
loue
&
stablyssheth
for
many
causes
/
whiche
were
ouer
longe
to
recounte
.
But
for
to
speke
short
in
hym
taken
part
all
they
that
ben
in
heuen
as
touching
to
glorie
&
honour
.
alle
they
of
the
world
that
ben
in
grace
as
to
glorye
.
to
theyr
saluacion
and
alle
they
of
purgatorie
to
the
alegement
of
payne
and
for
these
causes
&
many
other
maketh
the
prest
iij
partes
of
the
body
of
our
lord
in
the
sacrament
of
the
aulter
.
the
fyrst
is
for
them
of
heuen
/
the
ij
for
them
of
the
world
/
and
the
in
for
them
of
purgatorie
:
the
maystres
of
dyuinite
sayen
that
for
euery
masse
that
is
worthly
sayd
or
songen
.
many
soules
ben
deliuerd
on
t
of
the
paynes
of
purgatorie
and
goon
strait
to
heuen
.
Euery
prest
ought
to
dispose
him self
to
syng
euery
day
for
the
merites
of
the
masse
be
grete
and
grete
prouffit
cometh
therof
.
and
that
they
see
that
they
take
it
not
in
vayn
for
yf
they
soo
doo
they
shal
be
greuously
punysshyd
and
tormented
/
they
that
take
it
in
vain
be
lyke
to
the
seruaunt
that
toke
the
besaunt
of
hys
lord
and
putte
it
not
forth
to
prouffyt
.
wherfore
he
was
caste
out
in
to
derke
tenebres
lyke
as
the
gospel
sayth
.
our
lord
comaundeth
the
prestes
that
they
shold
make
thys
blesshyd
sacrament
and
comanded
them
in
sayeng
hoc
facyte
in
meam
con
memeracionem
.
That
is
to
saye
that
as
ofte
as
ye
make
thys
holy
sacrament
that
ye
doo
it
in
the
remembraunce
of
me
.
About
alle
prestes
shal
he
be
wel
happy
and
blessyd
.
that
shal
mowe
saye
lyke
as
saint
and
rewe
sayd
.
Euery
day
sayd
he
I
offre
&
sacrifyce
to
god
the
fader
.
the
lambe
wythout
spotte
.
that
is
the
precyous
body
of
ihesu
crist
/
Example
.
It
is
redde
of
dyuerse
Exam
prestes
that
euery
day
songe
masse
/
saint
ambrose
saith
in
the
canon
this
is
our
cotidyen
bred
.
take
it
euery
day
/
&
lyue
in
suche
maner
that
thou
mayst
euery
day
receyue
him
worthyly
&
sait
austyn
saith
/
I
preyse
not
ne
blame
him
that
receyueth
it
eueri
day
.
but
he
saith
.
euery
man
doo
after
his
fayth
and
after
that
him
shal
seme
good
.
Neuertheles
saith
he
I
admonests
that
alle
and
enerych
of
them
receyue
it
euery
sonday
:
And
seynt
Grigore
in
hys
omelyes
admonesteth
to
syuge
masse
ofte
.
&
sheweth
an
example
of
a
byshop
that
songe
almost
euery
day
masse
.
to
whom
our
lord
sente
word
sayeng
.
doo
that
thou
doost
and
werke
that
thou
werkest
and
cesse
not
therof
Of
the
goodes
that
one
hath
for
to
/
heere
/
gladely
masse
.
and
to
see
the
body
of
our
lord
lx
SAynt
austyn
sayth
in
the
boke
of
the
/
cyte
of
god
/
that
the
day
that
thou
hast
seen
the
body
of
our
lord
/
thou
shalt
haue
that
shal
be
nedeful
to
thy
liuyng
thy
vayne
wordes
&
thy
vayn
othes
shal
be
pardonned
to
the
the
lyght
of
thyn
eyen
shal
be
kepte
thou
shalt
not
deye
of
sodeyn
deth
&
yf
thou
deye
that
day
it
shal
be
acompted
to
the
for
thy
howsell
and
as
longe
as
thou
art
at
the
masse
thou
shalt
not
wexe
olde
/
&
in
goyng
to
chyrche
and
in
comyng
thens
euery
paas
that
thou
makest
shal
be
acompted
/
and
of
god
rewarded
.
&
the
holy
scripture
sayth
that
almesse
emptyth
not
the
purse
ne
heering
the
masse
lasseth
not
the
iourne
Example
.
it
is
redde
that
many
pylgrymes
wente
Exam
to
gydre
on
pylgamage
.
emonge
whome
ther
was
one
that
wold
euery
day
here
masse
.
the
other
saide
.
yf
we
tarye
for
this
man
euery
day
we
shal
tarye
ouer
long
.
and
so
they
lefte
hym
and
went
forth
to fore
.
and
euery
day
thys
man
herde
masse
/
The
other
supposed
to
haue
be
at
rome
viij
dayes
tofore
hym
but
whan
they
were
at
rome
.
&
had
made
theyr
offrynges
/
as
they
shold
goo
out
of
the
monastery
they
fonde
hym
at
the
dore
entring
in
to
the
chyrche
.
and
thenne
they
were
moche
abasshed
and
comyng
home
ward
they
herde
masse
euery
day
as
he
dyd
Thou
oughtest
to
byleue
stedfastly
wythout
ony
doubte
/
that
in
the
sacrament
of
the
aulter
is
conteyned
proprely
the
body
of
our
lord
ihesu
criste
whiche
suffred
passyon
&
deth
for
vs
whyche
awos
fro
deth
to
lyf
on
ester
day
and
ascended
vp
in
to
heuen
the
day
of
hys
assencyon
.
Example
.
At
rome
was
a
grete
Exam
woman
that
eueri
sonday
affred
at
the
masse
of
saynt
gregory
many
oublees
of
whyche
he
honselled
and
comynyed
the
good
peple
.
and
also
thys
noble
woman
/
It
happed
on
a
day
whan
he
songe
masse
.
he
toke
the
body
of
our
lord
and
wolde
haue
housellyd
this
woman
&
sayd
to
her
/
loo
hert
is
she
body
of
our
lord
whyche
kepe
the
in
to
euerlastyng
lyf
/
And
she
be
gan
to
lawhe
and
anone
saynt
Gregore
wythdre
we
his
hond
and
leyed
the
body
of
our
lord
vpon
the
aulter
and
after
demaunded
of
her
wherfore
she
lawhed
She
ansuerd
to
hym
and
sayd
by
cause
that
I
haue
made
thys
propre
brede
with
min
owen
houdes
.
and
thou
sayst
that
it
is
the
propre
body
of
our
lord
ihesu
criste
:
Anon
saynt
gregore
for
the
euyl
errour
of
this
woman
kneled
doun
and
made
hys
prayer
.
And
after
aroos
&
fonde
the
body
of
our
lord
Jhesu
criste
torned
in
to
the
four
me
of
a
fynger
of
flesshe
/
and
whan
thys
woman
sawe
thys
myracle
:
she
and
alle
the
peple
byleued
stedfastly
that
it
was
the
very
body
of
our
lord
.
and
saynt
Gregore
made
hys
prayer
agayn
.
And
the
flesshe
cam
agayn
in
to
fourme
of
brede
and
after
houselled
the
woman
.
¶
But
I
merueylle
me
moche
of
a
grete
abusion
whyche
is
doon
in
the
chyrche
.
for
whan
the
prest
goth
to
the
aulter
for
to
saye
the
masse
.
a
man
ought
to
be
the
better
confessyd
and
repentaunt
.
and
in
the
grettest
reuerence
that
he
may
.
and
ought
to
haue
grete
drede
that
he
ne
doo
ne
haue
doo
thyng
that
may
desplayse
god
.
wherfore
he
ought
to
be
moche
contrite
and
deuoute
as
he
that
gooth
in
the
presence
of
god
and
of
his
angellis
/
For
as
soone
as
the
preest
hath
sayd
the
wordes
of
the
holy
sacrament
god
is
there
present
with
grete
multitude
of
angellis
.
how
wel
that
we
see
them
not
.
for
they
be
saintes
and
espirituel
.
and
we
ben
mortal
and
synners
therfore
we
may
not
see
them
.
&
moche
peple
ful
of
vyces
&
of
synnes
sette
not
therby
.
but
go
nyghe
and
about
the
aulter
.
and
stond
so
nyghe
the
aulter
that
they
trouble
oftimes
the
preest
for
the
dissolucions
that
they
doo
in
spekyng
in
lawhing
&
many
of
her
maners
&
not
only
the
laye
men
&
wymen
/
but
also
the
clerkes
by
whom
the
other
ought
to
be
gouerned
&
taken
ensample
of
.
for
they
ought
to
be
the
mirrour
of
the
comyu
peple
&
neuertheles
they
that
haue
the
gouernaunce
of
the
chirche
ought
to
reprehende
&
chastise
them
for
default
of
science
or
for
negligence
or
flaterie
that
they
ne
doo
suche
thynges
as
to
approche
so
nighe
¶
th
aulter
the
men
&
seruauntes
that
ben
aboute
a
kyng
how
wel
that
he
be
a
synnar
and
mortal
as
we
bee
/
shal
not
suffre
ony
persone
tapproche
nyghe
to
the
kyng
without
his
congie
or
lycence
/
¶
Example
/
We
rede
in
holy
scrypture
that
Moyses
the
prophete
Exam
by
comaundement
of
god
made
a
tabernacle
whiche
was
but
a
fygure
of
the
monasteries
and
chyrches
that
now
ben
thurgh
al
crystendom
.
In
thys
tabernacle
were
thre
stages
.
in
whiche
was
one
place
callyd
Sancta
sanctorum
.
that
was
the
holyest
place
.
¶
That
other
was
the
chauncel
.
In
whyche
entred
no
man
but
the
prestes
and
the
leuytes
or
dekens
whyche
maden
the
sacrifice
¶
That
other
was
callyd
the
ship
or
body
of
the
tabernacle
wherin
were
the
symple
people
.
And
in
to
Sancta
sanctorum
none
entred
but
the
bysshop
.
the
whyche
entryd
not
but
onely
one
tyme
in
the
yere
.
And
there
was
no
thyng
in
that
place
that
was
so
wel
and
holyly
kepte
.
but
the
Arke
.
whyche
was
callyd
the
Arke
of
the
testament
.
and
in
that
Arke
was
nothyng
but
the
tables
of
stone
whyche
god
delyuered
to
Moyses
in
the
mounte
of
Synay
.
In
whiche
were
wreton
wyth
the
propre
hond
of
god
the
x
commandementes
of
the
lawe
And
the
rodde
of
Aaron
whyche
flourisshed
and
was
dreye
and
wythout
moysture
/
And
a
potte
wyth
manna
.
And
alle
these
thynges
were
not
but
a
fygure
of
the
lawe
.
and
of
the
fayth
that
we
now
holde
.
¶
Neuertheles
it
happed
that
the
kyng
Dauyd
dyde
doo
lede
thys
Arke
fro
one
place
to
another
vpon
a
charyot
alle
new
:
whiche
oxen
drewe
.
Now
it
happed
that
in
goyng
forth
the
Arke
bygan
a
lytyl
to
swarue
:
And
anon
one
of
them
that
droof
and
ledde
the
oxen
whyche
was
named
Oza
sette
hys
hond
to
the
Arke
to
th
ende
it
shold
not
falle
/
but
by
cause
it
apteyned
not
to
hym
.
for
he
was
not
of
them
that
shold
doo
the
sacrifice
.
god
was
wroth
wyth
hym
&
he
deyde
forth
with
sodeinly
/
for
the
whyche
thing
ough●●n
to
haue
grete
fere
&
drede
alle
they
that
approche
so
nygh
th
aulter
at
the
masse
.
wher
as
is
no
figure
as
was
in
the
old
●awe
/
but
ther
is
entyerly
the
propre
body
of
our
lord
ihesu
cast
conteyned
in
the
holy
sacrement
of
th
auter
as
it
is
tofore
sayd
●emembre
the
of
the
thynges
to fore
said
whan
thou
shalt
be
in
the
chyrche
And
kepe
the
ferre
fro
th
auter
fro
the
gospel
saith
that
the
publycan
whiche
was
in
the
temple
ferre
fro
the
saintu
arye
was
more
enhaunced
and
herd
of
god
by
hys
humylyte
.
than
was
the
pha●see
whiche
was
more
nyghe
by
hys
auauntyng
and
by
hys
pryde
¶
Of
the
dygnyte
of
prestes
/
Capitulo
lxij
THe
prestes
ben
the
mynystres
of
ihesu
criste
&
ben
faders
ghostly
of
all
cristen
peple
.
They
be
the
lyght
of
the
world
the
whiche
for
th
office
that
is
comysed
to
them
and
for
the
holynes
that
they
ought
to
haue
in
them
ben
called
the
angellis
of
our
lord
.
to
the
voys
of
whome
the
heuenes
opene
/
And
Jhesu
triste
descendeth
bytweue
theyr
hondes
with
grete
companye
of
Angellis
whyche
enuyronne
alle
the
partes
of
th
aulter
.
And
as
touchyng
to
absoyllyng
or
to
gyue
absolucyon
they
doo
that
the
angelles
may
not
doo
/
They
ought
to
kepe
and
holde
them
/
holyly
and
chastly
and
to
be
garnysshed
of
alle
goodes
and
alle
vertues
.
For
the
scripture
saith
that
yf
they
soo
doo
god
promyseth
to
them
double
honour
The
preste
that
lyneth
in
dedely
synne
specialy
in
sinne
of
lecherie
.
kepe
hym
wel
that
he
be
not
his
owne
iugement
whan
he
receyneth
the
body
of
our
lord
as
sayth
saint
poul
.
he
is
culpable
of
the
body
of
our
lord
ihesu
cryst
that
is
to
saye
.
as
yf
he
had
slayn
hym
/
Saynt
Jherome
called
hym
iudas
the
traitre
whyche
betrayed
our
lord
in
kyssyng
him
And
saint
Ambrose
sayth
who
that
setteth
nygh
to
the
sone
of
the
vyrgyne
marye
the
ydole
of
venym
and
sayeng
the
wordes
of
the
holy
sacrement
he
spytteth
in
the
mouth
of
the
sauy●●●
of
alle
world
.
Saint
Austyn
saith
that
the
synnes
of
an●uyl
prest
empessheth
not
the
sacrament
.
but
he
dampneth
him
right
parfondly
and
resembleth
and
is
lyke
the
torche
of
waxe
whyche
dooth
good
and
gyueth
lyght
to
other
and
he
w●steth
hym self
&
knowe
ye
that
the
prayers
and
orysons
in
the
masse
auaylle
and
be
muche
worth
.
But
god
enhaunceth
and
receyueth
moche
soner
&
better
the
prayers
of
a
good
preest
than
he
dooth
of
an
euyl
preste
.
¶
Example
.
It
is
redde
of
a
symple
Exam
man
that
wold
not
take
the
sacrament
of
suche
prestes
as
he
supposed
to
be
euyll
.
And
by
cause
he
dyde
it
ygnorauntly
/
and
nothyng
for
ony
malyce
god
shewed
to
hym
suche
an
example
as
foloweth
/
It
happed
on
a
tyme
that
in
slepyng
he
dremed
that
he
had
so
grete
thurst
that
he
myght
not
endure
it
/
&
hym
semed
that
he
was
at
a
welle
at
whyche
was
a
mesel
that
drewe
the
water
out
of
the
well
or
pytte
in
a
grete
and
right
fayre
vessell
of
syl●er
and
the
corde
was
of
gold
&
hym
semed
moche
peple
wente
for
to
demande
danke
of
the
mesel
.
Thys
man
wente
thyder
.
But
whan
the
mezel
sawe
hym
he
wythdre
we
hys
honde
of
whyche
he
gaf
drinke
to
other
&
sayd
to
hym
how
wylt
thou
take
of
the
hond
of
a
mesel
water
for
to
drinke
whan
thou
wylt
not
take
the
sacrementes
of
holy
chyrche
/
of
euyl
preestes
he
a
woke
/
and
neuer
after
was
he
in
that
errour
.
Saynt
gregore
defendeth
in
the
name
of
seint
peter
the
apostle
that
a
preste
whiche
lyueth
in
synne
specyally
in
the
synne
of
lechery
make
ne
admynystre
no
sacrementes
.
for
hys
benedictions
tornen
in
to
maledictions
.
And
hys
preyers
to
synne
as
touchyng
hym self
.
The
lawe
of
Canon
sayth
that
a
preste
oughte
to
saye
but
one
masse
on
one
day
.
but
yf
it
be
the
day
of
the
Natyuyte
of
our
lord
.
on
whyche
day
he
may
saye
thre
masses
There
be
somme
caases
that
a
preest
may
saye
on
other
dayes
tweyn
but
not
thre
.
for
what
someuer
necessite
that
he
haue
/
for
therin
he
shold
synne
dedely
/
The
fyrst
cas
is
yf
he
haue
cure
of
sowles
and
haue
a
dede
corps
present
on
a
sonday
or
on
aday
that
hath
a
propre
masse
yf
he
haue
noo
chapellayn
he
may
saye
two
masses
.
Or
yf
he
haue
a
weddyng
.
or
for
neces
lyte
of
pylgryms
or
of
hoostes
as
of
grete
lordes
.
o●
for
seke
men
he
may
saye
two
messes
And
late
the
prest
be
ware
that
he
saye
not
the
second
masse
for
noo
money
/
for
the
lawe
saith
that
it
shold
be
symonye
yf
he
soo
dyde
.
And
whan
he
shal
saye
two
masses
on
a
day
at
the
fyrst
masse
he
shal
take
no
wyn
after
vsyng
in
the
ende
of
the
masse
.
For
yf
he
so
dyde
he
shold
not
be
fastyng
at
the
second
masse
.
and
therfore
late
hym
take
good
hede
.
Of
the
science
&
good
example
that
the
prestes
ought
to
shewe
¶
Capitulo
.
lxiij
THey
that
haue
taken
holy
ordres
or
benefices
oughte
to
haue
science
suffycyent
and
right
competente
for
to
enseygne
and
introduce
the
peple
:
for
that
is
the
thynge
that
our
lord
most
commaund
th
vnto
them
For
at
the
day
of
dome
they
shal
yelde
strayt
Acountes
of
all
the
soules
that
ben
comytted
to
them
vnto
our
lord
.
how
they
haue
enseygned
taught
and
introduced
them
Alle
they
of
holy
chyrche
ought
to
doo
peyne
for
to
lyue
chastly
.
for
they
be
bounden
therto
.
and
yf
they
so
doo
/
And
doon
good
werkes
▪
alle
other
may
the
better
take
example
of
them
.
¶
Example
.
It
is
redde
of
a
theef
that
was
in
a
woode
/
whyche
Exam
robbed
all
them
that
he
myght
robbe
.
it
happed
that
an
abbot
passed
forth
by
and
assone
as
he
sawe
hym
he
wold
haue
robbed
hym
/
fayre
sone
sayd
th
abbot
to
hym
wherfore
doost
thou
so
grete
peyne
for
to
gete
thy
lyuyng
.
and
for
to
be
dāpred
.
Come
wyth
me
in
to
th
abbaye
and
I
shal
gyue
to
the
ynough
to
ete
the
theef
ansuerd
to
hym
.
I
may
not
ete
of
thy
benes
.
ne
cooles
.
ne
drinke
old
wyne
whyche
is
corrupt
wyth
water
Thabbot
ansuerd
to
hym
/
I
shal
gyue
the
good
breede
good
wyne
/
good
flesshe
and
good
fyssh
.
And
wyth
these
wordes
he
wente
wyth
hym
.
Thabbot
brought
hym
in
to
a
fayre
chambre
and
dyde
do
make
a
fyre
.
and.
couered
a
good
bedde
wyth
fayre
shetes
and
parementes
and
sette
to
hym
a
yong
monke
and
comaunded
hym
that
what
someuer
he
wold
haue
he
shold
anon●
haue
it
.
and
conmanded
the
monke
that
whan
the
theef
had
dronke
and
eten
at
his
playsir
/
that
to
fore
hym
:
he
shold
ete
no
thyng
but
brede
and
water
whan
the
theef
had
seen
thys
many
tymes
.
he
had
supposed
that
thys
monke
had
tōmysed
moche
euyll
by
cause
he
dyde
grete
penaunce
and
demanded
of
hym
on
a
tyme
sayeng
.
Frere
what
hast
thou
doo
.
that
euery
day
doost
this
grete
penaunce
&
demanded
of
hym
sayeng
hast
thou
slayn
ony
man
The
monke
ausuerde
to
hym
.
A
sire
what
saye
ye
I
neuer
augred
man
ne
slewe
none
I
haue
ben
in
thys
hous
sithe
my
chyldehode
After
the
theef
said
to
hym
hast
thou
doo
ony
fornycacioun
or
aduoultre
The
yonge
monke
blessyd
hym
&
said
to
hym
.
O
sire
whan
is
that
ye
saye
god
saue
and
kepe
me
/
For
I
neuer
touched
woman
by
sinne
.
The
theef
sayd
thenne
w●h●rfor
doost
thou
thenne
so
grete
penaunce
/
by
cause
sayd
the
monke
that
I
may
gete
the
loue
of
god
and
I
faste
wake
praye
and
doo
other
goode
to
th
ende
that
I
may
be
in
the
grace
of
god
and
be
saued
▪
whan
the
theef
herd
thys
he
was
moche
contrite
/
and
sayd
in
hym self
o
good
god
that
/
I
am
moche
vnhappy
.
for
I
haue
doon
so
many
dysnatural
euyllis
so
many
homycides
▪
&
theftes
and
enforced
so
many
wymen
&
dyde
neuer
well
not
so
moche
as
for
to
faste
one
day
.
and
this
monke
whyche
is
innocent
dooth
so
moche
penaunce
/
he
anone
dyde
doo
calle
th
abbot
and
fylle
doun
to
his
feet
.
&
prayed
hym
that
he
wold
receyue
hym
to
be
one
of
hys
monkes
.
Thabbot
receyued
hym
and
after
he
dyde
moche
penaunce
in
suche
wyse
that
he
passed
alle
them
of
th
abbaye
.
Now
seest
thou
how
the
example
of
thys
yonge
monke
conuerted
the
theef
Certaynly
the
that
prestres
gyuen
euyl
ensample
to
other
they
shal
be
g●euously
pugnysshed
&
tormented
for
yf
they
lyue
in
dedely
synne
they
ben
horyble
and
stynkyng
to
fore
god
/
and
hys
sayntes
and
dampne
them self
vylaynsly
saynt
ambrose
saith
that
the
●●baiēg
and
barkyng
of
dogges
the
mowyng
of
oxen
the
grontyug
of
swyne
and
the
cryeng
of
asses
/
pleseth
god
better
.
than
the
songe
of
suche
preestes
that
be
so
moche
lecherous
/
And
saint
gregore
sayth
that
for
theyr
synnes
.
god
is
oft
wroth
towarde
the
world
.
¶
Eyample
.
The
holy
scrypture
sayth
in
the
seconde
Exam
booke
of
kynges
:
by
cause
that
kyng
Dauyd
nombred
the
men
of
hys
wyalme
.
god
was
angry
wyth
hym
and
sente
to
hym
a
prophete
named
agad
whyche
sayd
to
hym
/
For
the
synne
of
that
thou
hast
doon
god
sendeth
to
the
to
chose
of
iij
thynges
one
.
Or
thou
shalt
haue
famyne
in
thy
lond
by
thespace
of
vij
yere
.
or
thou
shalt
haue
bataylle
thre
monethes
.
&
shalt
not
resiste
them
.
but
thou
shalt
flee
tofore
them
.
Or
thou
shalt
haue
pestyllence
and
mortalyte
thre
dayes
in
thy
contre
/
The
kynge
ansuerd
to
hym
.
I
haue
lyeuer
falle
in
the
mercy
of
our
lord
.
than
in
to
the
handes
of
myn
enemyes
/
And
anone
god
sente
suche
a
pestylerce
/
that
in
thre
dayes
ther
was
so
grece
mortalyte
that
ther
d●yde
wel
.
lxx
.
●
.
personnes
/
Now
seest
thou
that
the
synne
of
the
fader
that
is
of
the
kynge
whiche
is
the
fader
temporally
.
For
hys
synne
god
is
angry
wyth
the
peple
/
In
lyke
wyse
it
happeth
of
tymes
that
for
the
synne
of
the
peple
the
fader
temporal
/
or
spyrituel
suffreth
.
Example
.
The
h●ly
Exam
scripture
saith
that
Ezechyel
the
prophete
wold
praye
our
lord
for
hys
peple
.
but
god
ausuerd
to
hym
/
praye
to
me
not
for
this
peple
for
yf
thou
praye
to
me
more
I
shal
ioyne
thy
tongue
to
thy
palate
in
suche
wyse
as
thou
shalt
not
speke
/
for
the
peple
is
not
worthy
that
thou
pray
for
them
by
cause
of
theyr
synne
by
whyche
thry
haue
angred
me
Now
seest
thou
that
for
the
synne
of
the
people
the
fader
spirytuel
suffreth
¶
Of
the
neclygences
of
the
masse
and
of
the
remedyes
I
passe
ouer
for
it
apperteyneth
to
prestes
&
not
to
laie
men
.
C.
lxiiij
¶
Of
houslyng
and
comynyeng
ofte
Capitulo
.
lxv
Whan
a
persone
whiche
hath
witte
discrecion
&
ag●
suffisaunt
he
ought
to
be
houseled
:
And
specyally
he
ought
to
be
confessed
at
Estre
.
or
he
synneth
dedely
&
is
not
worthy
to
entre
in
to
the
chyrche
▪
and
whan
he
is
deed
he
ought
to
be
caste
out
in
to
the
feldes
as
a
domb
beste
but
yf
it
so
be
that
he
absteyne
him
fro
houselyng
by
the
lycence
of
hys
confessour
for
raysonable
cause
:
but
not
fro
confessyon
.
The
man
ought
to
be
houseled
atte
age
of
xiiij
yere
/
and
the
woman
atte
age
of
xij
yere
/
Saynt
Austyn
counseilleth
and
preyseth
the
deuoutes
persones
to
be
houseled
euery
sonday
.
and
the
holy
canon
sayth
that
at
the
lest
in
the
solempne
festes
/
and
for
to
thys
ought
the
prestes
to
warne
&
admoneste
th●yr
parysshens
so
to
be
houseled
&
to
make
them
redy
by
confessyon
to
fore
the
sayd
festes
.
For
no
man
can
saye
ne
expresse
the
grace
.
the
vertue
/
the
guerdon
/
and
●●ward
that
one
shal
haue
to
confesse
hym
and
be
comyned
worthely
/
The
wymen
grete
wyth
chyld
they
that
goo
in
iuste
werre
or
in
other
perillys
of
deth
they
that
goon
on
pylgrimage
.
alle
these
oughten
to
be
confessyd
and
houseled
.
and
they
ought
not
to
be
prayed
ne
requyred
so
to
doo
.
as
somme
doo
.
for
it
is
no
good
signe
/
We
may
haue
no
better
physycyen
than
the
body
of
our
lord
ihesu
crist
.
They
that
shal
be
maried
oughten
to
be
confessed
.
yf
the
seke
man
caste
vpward
and
wmyteth
at
the
mouth
he
ought
not
to
be
houseled
.
&
yf
after
his
houselyng
haue
ony
wmyte
and
ony
thyng
appere
of
the
sacrament
/
the
preste
ought
to
take
it
and
laye
it
in
the
sacrarie
wyth
other
relyques
and
the
remenaunt
in
the
pyscyne
.
¶
Of
the
goodes
that
a
persone
receyueth
whan
he
is
worthyly
houseled
.
Capitulo
lxvj
THey
that
be
comyned
&
receiue
our
lord
worthyly
haue
therby
many
goodes
fyrst
they
haue
remembraunce
of
god
&
haue
his
loue
/
Item
they
haue
magnifycence
of
herte
for
many
tymes
they
that
haue
but
lytyl
contricyon
they
ben
the
more
contrite
.
Item
they
ben
incorporate
in
ihesir
crist
for
god
saith
to
saynt
austyn
thou
shalt
not
chaunge
me
in
to
the
:
but
thou
shalt
be
chaunged
in
to
me
.
Jtem
they
haue
the
spyrituel
refrction
and
encreacyng
of
deuocion
.
Item
they
ben
ther
by
the
lasse
enclyned
to
the
synne
of
lecherie
.
for
lyke
as
water
quenchyth
the
fyre
/
so
doth
the
body
of
our
lord
receyued
worthyly
quenche
the
concupyscence
of
the
flessh
.
Jtem
he
receyueth
strengthe
of
god
/
for
it
is
a
loof
that
fortyfyeth
the
persone
.
Saynt
bernard
sayth
lerne
ye
cristen
men
how
ye
ought
to
loue
ihesu
crist
whyche
hath
gyuen
to
vs
hys
flessh
&
blod
to
ete
&
drinke
his
soule
also
for
our
redempcyon
.
the
water
out
of
his
syde
for
to
wasshe
vs
f●●
synne
.
Jtem
therin
is
grete
fayth
.
for
in
thys
sacrament
our
fayth
is
enhaunced
aboue
nature
&
aboue
the
vnderstondyng
right
exellently
Jtem
we
be
fedde
in
thys
sacrament
with
the
mete
of
alle
the
angellis
.
Jtem
we
haue
by
this
sacrament
the
wyalme
of
heuen
/
Item
we
haue
therby
spyrytuel
delectacyon
.
and
haue
lyght
of
vnderstondyng
.
Saynt
bernard
sayth
that
this
holy
sacrament
is
medycyne
to
syke
men
.
the
ionrney
to
pylgrims
it
conforteth
the
febles
it
delyteth
them
that
be
stronge
.
it
guar●s
sheth
and
heleth
the
langour
&
sekenes
.
&
conserueth
and
kepeth
the
helthe
/
by
this
sacrament
he
is
the
more
debonaire
to
correction
.
the
more
pacyent
to
labour
.
more
dysposed
to
loue
god
&
his
neyghbour
/
more
wyse
ayenst
cautelles
/
more
redy
to
o●●ye
and
more
deuoute
to
yelde
thankynges
to
god
Of
the
euyll
that
one
hath
to
receiue
god
vnworthyli
.
c
/
lxvij
IN
lyke
wyse
as
many
good
thynges
come
to
them
that
receyue
worthyly
the
body
of
our
lord
.
right
so●
come
many
euyllys
to
them
that
receyue
hym
vnworthyly
/
first
he
that
receyueth
hym
vnworthyly
is
more
redy
to
synne
/
he
apparrylleth
hys
dampnacyon
.
he
sklaundreth
his
neighbour
.
his
courage
is
blynde
.
he
is
the
more
subget
to
temptacion
he
mocketh
god
he
abredged
hys
temporal
lyf
/
&
despoilleth
hym
fro
the
goodes
of
grace
.
The
fourth
sacrament
is
the
sacrament
of
penaunce
.
of
whyche
we
shal
speke
in
the
ende
of
thys
●●ke
¶
Of
the
last
vnction
Capituls
lxviij
The
fifthe
sacrament
is
the
last
vnction
whiche
som
men
call
the
last
olyēg
.
¶
This
sacrament
auailleth
moch
to
forgi●i●
sinnes
/
&
ofte
it
aledgeth
the
maladye
for
it
was
establysshed
for
the
helthe
of
the
soule
.
and
for
the
helthe
of
the
body
/
Thys
sacrament
may
be
receyued
dyuerse
tymes
.
whan
the
s●ke
man
●eleth
hym self
in
peryll
of
deth
.
and
he
ought
to
〈◊〉
demanded
in
his
good
poynt
yf
he
wyl
receyue
it
.
and
yf
it
happed
that
he
refused
it
and
saith
it
is
no
nede
:
he
is
in
peul
of
dampnacyon
/
yf
he
deye
wythout
receyuyng
it
/
For
none
ought
to
refuse
it
.
whiche
is
in
peryl
of
deth
¶
Of
Ordres
Capitulo
/
lxix
THe
vj
sacrament
is
of
the
ordres
.
and
we
shal
fyrst
speke
of
the
clerkes
.
of
the
other
ordres
we
shal
passe
ouer
except
a
lytyl
that
we
shal
saye
for
the
symple
clerkes
/
the
holy
canon
sayth
that
the
clerkes
ought
to
bere
crowne
suffysaunte
.
The
crowne
whyche
hath
no
bygynnyng
ne
ende
signyfieth
that
the
clerkes
oughten
to
sechen
god
wyth
all
their
herte
/
for
they
ben
of
hys
partye
and
of
hys
strengthe
.
and
therfore
saye
they
whan
they
be
blessyd
and
made
benet
and
take
theyr
fyrst
crown
Dns
pars
hereditatis
&
●e
.
The
clerkes
oughten
to
were
symple
robes
and
mayntine
them
symply
.
and
to
flee
all
the
varietees
of
the
world
and
playes
and
of
the
dyse
.
and
also
the
tauernes
but
yf
it
be
by
necessyte
or
by
the
way
for
the
tauerne
is
the
fontayne
of
alle
euylles
There
is
lerned
ordure
glotonnye
.
lecherie
.
swering
/
forsweung
/
lyeng
.
myssayeng
of
other
/
renyeng
of
god
.
mysrekenyng
/
deceyuyng
in
euyl
playes
/
and
ouer
many
synnes
ben
doon
there
/
There
growen
noyses
.
medlynges
.
homycydes
/
lecheries
.
there
lerne
they
to
stele
&
take
other●
thynge
.
The
tauerne
is
a
pytte
of
theues
and
fortresse
of
the
deuyl
for
they
warre
agaynst
god
and
hys
sayntes
and
they
that
maynteyne
them
ben
parteners
of
alle
the
euyllys
that
ben
ther
doon
.
and
certainly
yf
one
sayd
as
moche
euyl
or
shame
to
hy●
fader
or
moder
to
his
seruaunt
or
chylde
/
as
is
doon
in
the
ta●erne
to
the
fader
of
heuen
to
our
lady
&
to
other
sayntes
they
shold
be
moche
angry
/
and
shold
fynde
other
remedye
than
they
too
The
clerkes
oughten
to
kepe
these
vj
thynges
atte
table
〈◊〉
han
they
ete
.
Ther
fyrst
thyng
is
that
they
onght
to
saye
noo
harme
ne
euyll
of
other
and
specyally
of
them
that
be
not
present
/
The
second
thyng
is
that
they
ought
not
to
skorn
ne
mocke
them
that
be
present
The
thyrd
thyng
is
that
they
ought
not
to
speke
of
the
vanytees
of
the
world
.
The
iiij
is
that
they
ought
to
doo
rede
to
fore
them
the
holy
scripture
and
wel
to
herkene
it
to
th
ende
that
the
soule
be
as
wel
f●dde
as
the
body
.
The
v
is
that
they
ete
sobrely
.
the
vj
is
that
atte
bygynnyng
and
th
ende
they
ought
all
way
saie
graces
&
gyue
thankynges
to
god
the
clerk●s
ought
not
to
holde
wymen
in
theyr
houses
but
yf
they
be
theyr
wynes
or
right
nygh
of
theyr
lignage
.
For
though
ther
be
no
synne
.
yet
ther
is
suspecion
of
the
people
and
they
be
no
more
holy
than
/
dauid
.
ne
more
wyse
than
salamon
ne
more
strong
than
sampson
the
whyche
all
were
deceyued
.
&
late
not
them
excuse
them
for
to
saye
they
be
old
&
wythout
suspecion
.
For
whan
the
fire
is
lyghted
.
it
spareth
nothyng
but
wast●th
all
that
it
fyndeth
.
Example
.
Exam
It
is
redde
of
an
/
Abbot
that
went
in
to
a
ferre
contrey
/
whan
he
cam
agayn
he
fonde
that
his
monkes
had
suffred
a
good
woman
&
an
olde
to
duelle
in
th
abbay
for
to
wasshe
and
man
ke
clene
theyr
thinges
.
and
nothyng
for
to
sinne
whan
he
spake
therof
to
the
monkes
they
.
ansuerd
to
him
that
it
was
not
suspecious
.
Thabbot
conmanded
the
cooke
that
he
shold
salte
strongli
alle
the
mete
of
the
souper
.
and
also
he
had
hym
that
after
souper
he
sholde
shetre
fro
them
alle
drinke
.
that
they
sholde
fynde
no
thyng
to
drinke
but
the
wasshyng
of
dysshes
it
happed
that
whan
the
monkes
were
leyd
to
slepe
.
they
had
so
grete
thurst
/
that
they
aroos
and
sought
alle
aboute
for
to
drinke
.
but
they
.
fonde
no
thyng
but
the
wasshyng
of
dysshes
/
the
whyche
for
the
grete
thurst
that
they
.
hade
they
dronke
theyr
fylle
.
on
the
morn
th
abbot
demanded
what
was
the
noyse
.
that
he
herde
alle
the
nyght
in
the
abbaye
/
The
monkes
sayd
to
hym
that
they
were
rysen
for
to
seche
drinke
.
but
they
coude
fynde
nothyng
.
but
the
wassh●g
of
the
dysshes
:
whyche
they
dronken
for
the
right
grete
thurst
that
they
hadden
/
Thabbot
sayd
to
them
that
.
for
the
●rdure
of
thurst
they
had
dronken
that
foul
water
.
also
by
the
ordure
of
the
flessh
myght
they
doo
theyr
willes
wyth
that
old
woman
.
And
by
thys
mene
the
woman
was
put
out
of
th
abbaye
.
The
clerkes
oughten
to
shewe
goodnes
and
rypenes
of
herte
by
good
wordes
and
by
good
werkes
.
And
oughten
to
serue
.
honoure
.
and
praye
god
:
and
hys
moder
/
and
alle
the
sayntes
of
heuen
.
They
oughten
to
lyue
right
chastly
or
cllis
marye
them
.
For
clerkes
shal
not
besette
by
.
and
shullen
be
mocked
/
but
yf
they
be
better
than
other
.
The
clerkes
that
haue
benefyces
how
wel
they
haue
not
taken
none
holy
orders
/
And
also
dekens
and
prestes
thawh
they
haue
noo
benefyces
they
ben
bounden
to
saie
theyr
houres
canon
:
calles
.
and
yf
they
doo
not
they
synne
dedely
/
And
thaugh
so
were
that
they
be
excomynyed
or
in
dedely
synne
/
yet
be
they
bounden
to
saye
them
compedently
.
atreat
and
deuoutly
/
as
they
that
speken
to
god
.
For
saynt
Jherome
sayth
that
better
is
worth
to
saye
the
vij
psalmes
deuouly
and
wyth
good
herte
.
than
alle
the
psaulter
in
ennoye
and
wythout
deuocyon
/
Some
ther
ben
that
whan
they
saye
theyr
houres
.
they
thynke
on
vanytees
and
of
theyr
werkes
or
lawhe
and
mocke
other
.
and
talke
and
entrelarde
.
theyr
houres
wyth
suche
vanytees
.
And
entende
not
to
that
thyng
that
they
saye
.
Example
.
It
is
redde
that
saynt
seue●ne
Exam
archebisshop
of
colen
that
he
appiered
after
his
deth
to
his
archedeken
and
said
to
him
that
he
suffred
grete
peine
and
shold
abide
in
purgatorie
vnto
a
certain
tyme
.
Tharchedeken
said
to
hym
:
Syre
wherfore
suffre
ye
payue
/
syth
ye
haue
lyued
so
holily
in
the
world
that
we
hold
you
for
a
saynt
/
Saynt
seuerin
ansuerd
to
him
.
by
cause
whan
I
said
myn
houres
I
entended
not
to
that
I
said
whan
my
seruauntes
spaken
to
me
of
temporel
thinges
I
entended
more
to
them
.
than
to
that
I
sayd
.
thus
¶
there
be
many
that
whan
they
saye
theyr
houres
they
haste
them
in
suche
wyse
.
that
for
theyr
hasty
sayeng
they
make
many
defaultes
.
and
therin
they
be
moche
neclygent
Of
whome
the
prophete
saith
that
he
is
wycked
that
dooth
the
werke
of
god
negligently
.
example
.
It
is
redde
in
the
lyues
of
fadres
that
an
heremyte
on
a
time
recountred
.
and
mette
the
deuyll
whyche
bare
a
grete
sacke
/
and
he
demanded
of
the
deuyl
what
was
in
the
sacke
The
deuyl
said
to
hym
/
These
b●n
the
wordes
and
sillables
&
lettres
forgoten
&
euyl
sayd
in
the
seruice
of
god
and
therfore
ye
that
saye
the
houres
see
wel
to
that
ye
haue
no
parte
in
the
deuylles
sacke
afore
sayd
¶
Of
the
sacrament
of
mariage
Capitulo
lxx
THe
vij
sacrament
is
the
sacrament
of
maryage
God
establysshed
this
sacrament
in
paradis
terreure
to
fore
alle
the
other
sacramentis
/
and
to
fore
that
man
euer
synned
/
Mariage
signefieth
the
loue
of
ihesu
crist
and
of
his
holy
chyrche
.
and
god
hath
so
moche
honoured
it
.
that
he
wold
be
borne
vnder
the
shadowe
of
mariage
and
he
was
atte
weddyng
wyth
archydyclyn
.
were
as
he
chaunged
water
in
to
wyn
/
And
he
wyll●
that
the
husbond
loue
and
kepe
his
wyf
/
And
the
wyf
her
husbond
wyth
alle
her
power
.
as
her
propre
body
.
For
they
ben
but
one
flessh
.
and
they
ought
to
haue
but
one
wyll
.
and
therfore
god
made
not
the
woman
of
the
hede
of
Adam
to
th
ende
she
shold
not
be
his
maystresse
.
¶
Also
he
made
hyr
not
of
the
feet
of
Adam
.
by
cause
he
shold
not
haue
hyr
in
subiection
and
in
despyte
.
but
he
made
hyr
of
the
syde
of
Adam
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
kepe
her
as
his
felawe
.
They
ought
to
loue
eche
other
:
&
forbere
in
alle
good
and
kepe
theyr
faith
eche
to
other
.
and
they
ought
not
to
byleue
lyghtly
euyl
reportes
eche
of
other
ne
also
wordes
¶
The
woman
ought
to
obeye
to
hyr
husbond
in
alle
that
is
reason
:
And
the
husbond
ought
to
holde
hys
wyf
honestely
after
hys
estate
wythout
pryde
/
yf
god
sende
to
them
chyldren
they
to
enseyne
and
teche
them
th●yr
creance
&
byleue
/
and
well
to
chastyse
them
fro
angring
god
&
dysplesig
hym
as
for
sweryng
&
renyeng
god
&
for
to
curse
&
fro
all
other
euyllis
also
to
kepe
them
deligently
and
so
to
brynge
them
vertuousli
in
the
Exam
yr
yougthe
that
it
may
endure
in
theyr
age
.
Example
we
rede
in
holi
scripture
that
helye
the
prophete
by
cause
he
chastysed
not
wel
his
two
sones-god
was
wroth
wyth
hym
and
he
deyde
sodenli
/
anoher
example
/
Item
it
is
red
that
a
man
had
a
sone
who
me
he
corrected
not
wel
.
it
happed
that
for
his
euyl
lyf
he
was
Judged
to
be
hanged
/
and
whan
he
was
ledde
toward
the
galowes
he
prayd
them
that
ledde
hym
that
he
mygth
speke
with
his
faderer
he
sholde
be
hanged
whan
his
fadercam
he
cried
hym
merci
and
prayd
hym
to
kysse
hym
&
in
kyssyng
hym
he
bote
hym
by
the
nose
wyth
his
teeth
and
whan
the
people
.
blamed
hym
therfore
he
ansuerd
to
them
I
wolde
doo
werse
/
to
hym
yf
I
coude
.
for
he
is
cause
of
my
deth
by
cause
he
chasty
sed
and
corrected
me
not
in
my
yongthe
werfor
.
I
am
now
dampned
to
be
hanged
The
husbond
to
his
wyf
ne
the
wyf
to
hyr
husbond
ougth
not
to
refuse
others
companye
withoute
grete
cause
They
ought
to
absteyne
them
fro
the
werke
of
mariage
whan
the
wyf
lyeth
a
chyldebedde
and
in
other
secrete
maladye
whyche
ought
not
to
be
▪
sayd
.
For
som
sekenesses
mygh
come
that
thenne
yf
the
chyldren
were
engendred
shold
lightly
be
me
selles
.
cooked
or
euyl
shapen
.
¶
Item
in
grete
festes
of
the
chyrche
&
in
fastyng
tyme
they
ought
to
forbere
/
whan
so
is
that
it
is
not
but
for
cause
of
delyte
.
¶
Example
Exam
Saynt
greogre
reherceth
in
hys
dyalogue
that
a
woman
of
rome
said
to
the
wif
of
hir
sones
doughter
we
shall
goo
to
morn
to
the
feste
of
dedycaryon
of
saynt
sebastyan
.
The
yong
woman
for
the
reuereuce
of
the
feste
wold
not
absteyne
her
fro
the
werk
of
mariage
that
night
.
on
the
morn
anon
as
they
entred
in
to
the
chirche
of
seynt
sebastyan
.
the
deuyl
entred
in
to
the
body
of
the
yong
woman
.
whyche
tormented
hyr
moche
strongly
but
by
the
prayers
of
an
holy
man
that
was
there
/
he
was
put
out
fro
her
and
after
she
was
heled
.
for
the
reuerence
of
mariage
which
god
hath
so
moche
honoured
.
they
oughtwel
to
kepe
them
fro
vsyng
it
dishonestly
ayenste
thordynaunce
of
nature
.
for
therin
they
shal
synne
dedely
.
A
man
may
slee
hym self
wyth
hys
owne
swerd
or
knyf
.
The
husbond
or
the
wyf
that
brekyth
the
mariage
for
what
cause
someuer
it
be
.
synneth
so
greuously
that
in
the
olde
lawe
they
were
put
to
deth
/
And
he
or
she
that
kepeth
wel
his
mariage
may
make
dysseueryng
or
departing
▪
ayenst
that
partye
that
so
breketh
but
it
shal
be
comanded
that
fro
than
forthon
they
lyue
chastly
and
he
or
she
that
after
shal
synne
wyth
other
shal
be
constrayned
to
take
agayn
hys
or
hyr
companye
.
yf
the
wyf
of
hyr
propre
wyll
or
by
iugement
of
holy
chyrche
be
departed
fro
hir
husbond
by
cause
she
hath
broken
hyr
mariage
/
yf
she
assembled
not
agayn
wyth
hyr
husbond
she
may
not
demande
hyr
do
wayre
.
he
or
she
that
seeth
hys
felawe
repentaunt
of
hys
synne
yf
he
take
hir
▪
or
she
hym
in
hys
or
in
hyr
companye
he
or
she
dooth
grete
almesse
/
and
god
shal
acompte
it
to
hym
in
grete
penaunce
of
hys
synnes
for
of
a
synner
repentaunt
ought
one
to
haue
mercy
and
pyte
¶
What
mariages
be
of
no
value
Capitulo
lxxj
Whan
mariages
shal
be
made
it
ought
to
be
knowen
yf
it
be
the
wyll
of
that
one
as
wel
as
of
that
other
.
and
that
there
be
none
empescheme●t
of
lignage
ne
gossybrede
.
ne
kynred
ne
that
ony
trouthplyght
hath
be
made
.
ne
flesshly
companye
/
or
yf
ther
hath
made
ony
solempne
awwe
of
cotynence
/
as
in
the
honde
of
the
bysshop
.
of
abbot
or
abbesse
.
or
of
hys
curate
vpon
the
aulter
to
fore
good
wytnessys
or
yf
he
hath
receiued
holy
ordre
as
subdeken
.
deken
.
preste
/
▪
Or
professyon
in
ordre
or
yf
he
hath
had
flesshly
companye
with
ony
woman
of
hir
lignage
whome
he
w●ld
marye
.
For
in
alle
these
cases
the
maryage
is
of
n●●
valewe
/
And
they
that
thus
shal
be
assembled
yf
they
knowe
the
lettyng
they
synne
dedely
.
and
theyr
chyldren
shal
be
ba●●ardis
/
&
they
may
not
haue
companye
carnall
to
gydre
wyth
out
dedely
synne
and
they
that
knowe
the
lettyng
and
saye
not
.
synnen
dedely
.
And
ben
parteners
of
the
●●yl
that
may
come
therof
.
In
alle
these
caases
none
may
doo
grace
ne
dispence
/
but
the
pope
onely
.
For
sentence
gyuen
of
another
.
ne
letter
auaillen
nothyng
.
And
for
thys
peryll
the
preest
ought
to
crie
and
aske
the
banes
solempnly
/
and
to
receyue
alle
opposaunts
.
And
suche
as
knowe
only
lettyng
openly
or
secretly
.
&
yf
non
saye
the
contrarie
ne
oppose
.
yf
the
preest
thike
that
ther
be
ony
Impedyment
/
he
ought
to
enquyre
delygently
.
&
yf
there
ony
he
ought
to
sygnyfye
it
to
theyr
ordynarye
Juge
:
Ther
be
many
maryages
that
●e●●
them
euyl
by
cause
they
be
not
made
a●
they
ought
to
be
made
.
The
somme
taken
a
wyf
for
her
beaulte
.
The
other
for
accomplysshe
theyr
carnalyte
or
flesshly
luste
.
other
for
theyr
rychesses
.
And
other
for
theyr
lygnage
:
¶
Example
we
●●de
Exam
in
the
holy
scripture
that
Sara
the
doughter
of
Raguel
had
seuen
husbondes
.
The
whiche
seuen
a
deuyl
named
Asmodeus
slewe
the
fyrst
nyght
of
theyr
weddyng
.
whan
they
supposed
to
haue
leyen
wyth
hys
wyf
.
he
put
them
to
deth
by
cause
they
toke
her
for
the
causes
afore
sayd
/
and
nothyng
for
very
loue
of
mariage
for
to
haue
lygnage
.
And
after
the
Aungel
Raphael
sayd
to
yong
Thobye
that
he
shold
take
her
in
mariage
.
Thobie
ansuered
to
hym
/
I
haue
herd
saye
that
she
hath
had
seuen
husbondes
.
whyche
anone
as
they
wold
haue
leyen
wyth
hyr
the
fyrst
nyght
of
theyr
espousaylles
the
deuyl
put
them
to
deth
I
fere
and
doubte
lest
he
wold
doo
the
same
to
me
.
¶
Th
angel
ausuered
to
hym
.
¶
I
shal
t●ll●
to
the
sayd
he
.
Upon
whome
the
deuyllys
hath
power
whan
they
marye
them
.
He
hath
power
wpon
them
that
take
theyr
wyues
/
not
for
the
loue
of
god
.
ne
in
hope
to
haue
lygnage
.
but
for
to
accomplisshe
theyr
flesshly
delyte
/
as
dombe
bestes
whiche
haue
none
wnderstōdyng
.
But
whan
ye
shal
be
espo●sed
ye
shall
holde
you
thre
dayes
and
thre
nyghtes
fro
hauyng
to
doo
carnally
that
one
wyth
that
other
/
&
ye
shal
be
in
prayers
&
in
o●●ysōs
wyth
our
lord
&
the
fourth
nyght
ye
shall
assemble
to
gyder
not
for
flesshly
delectacion
but
in
the
drede
of
god
and
in
hope
to
haue
lygnage
.
many
haue
soo
doon
and
haue
absteined
them
fro
theyr
wyues
iij
the
fyrst
dayes
and
nyghtes
whyche
after
haue
lyued
to
gyder
in
good
loue
and
in
grete
progenye
.
Bytwene
them
that
crystene
chyldren
atte
the
fonte
&
ben
godfaders
&
godmoders
is
noo
gossybrede
by
the
lawe
ne
is
no
impediment
of
mariage
and
holde
for
certayn
that
the
lawe
sayth
that
yf
thou
and
thy
gossyb
he
or
she
haue
had
chyldren
to fore
ye
were
gossybs
they
may
alle
take
that
one
that
other
by
maryage
.
but
the
chyld
for
whom
ye
be
godfader
non
of
others
chyldren
may
take
by
maryage
/
¶
Of
the
state
of
wedowhed
Capitulo
lxxij
SAynt
Poul
preyseth
moche
the
state
of
wedowhed
why
the
sayth
to
the
wedowes
.
that
it
is
good
that
they
kepe
them
in
suche
estate
.
or
ellis
that
they
marye
them
.
For
it
is
better
to
marye
than
to
brenne
/
he
or
she
brenneth
that
consenteth
to
synne
.
For
to
kepe
the
state
of
wedowhed
ought
to
be
had
example
of
the
turtle
/
For
as
sayen
the
maystres
Naturiens
in
the
book
of
nature
of
bestis
.
after
that
the
turtle
hath
lost
hys
make
he
shal
neuer
after
accompanye
hym
or
▪
her
to
another
but
is
alle
way
solytarye
and
fleeth
the
companye
of
other
Thre
thynges
apperteynen
right
welle
to
them
that
ben
in
the
state
of
wedowhed
The
fyrst
is
for
to
enclose
her self
pryu●ly
in
her
hows
¶
And
not
to
folowe
suspecyous
n●
euyl
companye
.
¶
And
herof
gyueth
vs
example
Judith
whyche
was
a
wedowe
and
a
moche
fayre
woman
.
and
the
holy
scripture
saith
that
she
helde
her
enclosed
in
her
chambre
wyth
her
maydens
:
wherfore
saint
poul
repreueth
moche
strongly
the
yong
wymen
wedowes
that
ben
ydle
.
and
redy
to
goo
and
to
come
and
ben
ouermoche
spekyng
and
iangeleresses
:
&
he
sayth
that
they
shold
be
in
theyr
howses
and
entende
to
doo
good
werkes
/
Some
ther
be
whan
theyr
husbondes
ben
dede
whyche
were
blacke
gownes
.
but
ther
is
nothyng
there
.
but
the
colour
of
sorowe
and
of
mornyng
.
For
they
be
made
as
well
and
all
so
gente
and
queyntly
as
thaugh
they
were
of
skarlet
.
The
second
is
that
they
shold
entende
to
praye
and
to
serue
god
and
to
be
gladly
in
the
chyrche
in
deuocyon
&
in
teeres
lyke
as
the
gospel
saith
that
a
woman
a
wedowe
named
Anne
dyde
whyche
departed
not
out
of
the
temple
.
but
serued
god
nyght
and
day
in
prayers
and
in
wayllynges
.
The
thyrde
thynge
is
sharpnesse
of
lyf
For
as
sayth
saint
poul
/
the
woman
wedowe
that
lyueth
in
delyces
is
deed
by
synne
And
saint
bernard
saith
that
chastyte
perissheth
ofte
in
delyces
.
Also
it
apperteyneth
that
the
yong
wymen
ben
humble
and
nothyng
proud
after
the
example
of
Judith
.
whiche
lefte
hyr
fayr
robes
and
hir
richesses
and
hyr
parements
whan
hir
husbond
was
deed
.
and
toke
thabyte
of
wedowhed
symple
&
humble
/
whyche
is
a
more
sygne
of
wepyng
than
of
Joye
or
of
vayne
glorie
.
and
by
cause
that
she
loued
chastyte
▪
and
wold
kepe
it
all
hyr
lyf
.
she
wered
the
heyre
.
And
fasted
euery
day
sauf
the
festes
/
▪
And
yet
she
was
fayre
.
wyse
and
yong
.
but
of
bounte
of
herte
and
also
loue
of
chasstyte
caused
hyr
to
doo
it
and
therfor
who
that
wyll
kepe
chastite
late
her
lyue
in
suche
estate
as
dyde
thys
valyaunt
lady
iudith
¶
Of
continence
Capitulo
lxxiij
HOw
wel
that
maryage
be
a
sacrament
.
&
that
god
hath
made
it
.
and
moche
honoured
it
:
And
moche
pleasyth
hym
yf
it
be
wel
kept
.
Neuertheles
the
state
of
contynence
of
them
that
will
lyue
chastly
.
And
kepe
them
fro
maryeng
for
the
loue
of
god
is
more
playsant
to
god
.
and
is
more
honourable
&
more
proffytable
/
Item
yt
ys
A
▪
victore
that
▪
one
maketh
of
his
flesshe
/
by
cause
he
hath
ouer
come
yt
/
For
whiche
victorye
god
shal
crowne
hym
moche
hyely
in
heuen
/
Item
it
is
a
maner
of
martyrdom
especyally
in
his
yongthe
/
Item
they
that
lyue
chastly
ben
proprely
the
monastery
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
For
these
causes
/
and
for
the
better
to
please
god
counceylleth
Saynt
poul
to
yong
peple
and
to
them
that
beu
to
marye
/
that
they
kepe
them
in
suche
estate
/
or
ellis
that
they
marie
them
for
peryl
to
falle
in
the.
synne
▪
of
lecherye
/
But
he
saith
that
moche
happy
shal
they
be
▪
yf
they
may
hold
them
in
the
state
of
contynence
/
¶
OF
/
the
state
of
virgynyte
Capitulo
lxxijij
UIrgynyte
.
is
so
right
hye
estate
&
so
.
worthy
/
that
it
can
not
be
onermoche
preysed
/
For
it
is
the
lyf
of
Angellis
celestyall
and
it
is
redde
of
many
dyuerse
sayntes
whiche
haue
refused
grete
dignytes
and
haue
suffred
grete
&
hard
tormente●
&
martyrdoms
for
theeyr
virgynyte
to
kepe
/
O
the
right
hye
&
noble
tresour
that
he
or
sheleseth
that
playnly
wold
haue
doon
the
synne
of
lecherye
/
but
yf
he
doo
soo
nomore
/
and
repenteth
hym
▪
of
his
eull
wyll
with
good
herte
And
confessyth
hym
therof
/
his
/
or
hir
virgynyte
retourneth
to
hym
or
to
hir
agayn
But
&
yf
he
or
she
accomplyssh
the
synne
of
the
flesshe
/
he
or
she
shal
neuer
be
virgyne
.
yf
one
enforce
a
virgyne
ayenst
hir
wyll
the
meryte
of
virgynyte
lasseth
not
▪
But
it
encreaceth
▪
wherof
is
wreton
in
the
lyf
of
saynt
lucye
▪
the
whiche
sayde
to
the
euyl
tirannt
that
wold
haue
enforced
and
rauysshed
hir
yf
thou
make
me
to
be
enforced
and
defouled
ayenst
my
wyll
The
crowne
of
my
virgynite
shal
be
doubled
wherfor
thou
oughtest
to
be
wel
aduysed
and
resyste
it
strough
/
¶
Of
them
that
be
in
religyon
Capitulo
lxxv
Relygyon
is
called
deserte
/
for
lyke
as
the
deserte
is
a
place
sharp
/
allone
.
and
ferre
fro
peple
.
in
lyke
wyse
ought
to
be
the
state
of
religyon
sharp
.
&
that
by
straytnes
of
lif
Item
the
state
of
relygyon
ought
to
be
ferre
fro
the
world
.
that
he
that
is
in
suche
estate
fele
nothyng
/
but
ought
to
be
deed
to
the
world
.
and
lyuyng
toward
god
as
saith
saynt
poul
.
For
lyke
as
he
is
that
is
deeed
bodily
.
that
is
to
wete
.
the
herynge
the
seyng
.
the
smellyng
.
the
spekyng
/
and
the
tastyng
/
right
so
ought
to
be
the
relygyous
so
deed
toward
the
world
that
he
f●le
nothyng
that
appertryneth
to
synne
.
to
th
ende
that
he
may
saye
lyke
as
saint
poul
sayth
of
hym self
The
world
is
crucyfied
in
me
.
and
I
to
the
world
.
A
relygyous
ought
to
haue
nothyng
in
the
world
propre
to
hym self
.
he
ought
to
make
hys
tresour
in
heuen
as
our
lord
saith
.
yf
thou
wylt
be
parfight
goo
and
selle
alle
that
thou
haste
.
and
gyue
to
the
poure
people
/
and
so
shalt
thou
haue
thy
tresour
in
heuen
.
An
holy
saynt
sayth
in
vytis
patrum
that
pouerte
is
the
waye
by
whyche
heuen
is
goten
.
Example
.
We
rede
in
the
holy
scripture
that
our
lord
sayd
Exam
to
Abraham
in
the
persoue
of
relygyous
/
goo
sayd
he
out
of
thy
lond
▪
that
is
to
wete
fro
the
rychesses
of
thys
world
so
that
thou
sette
not
on
them
thyn
herte
.
Item
goo
out
of
thy
lygnage
that
is
to
saye
.
leue
thy
synnes
of
dede
and
of
wyll
.
and
put
not
thy
herte
so
strongly
in
a
persone
of
thy
lygnage
ne
in
none
other
but
that
thou
mayst
well
take
it
away
whan
thou
wylt
/
&
thyrdly
he
sayth
goo
out
of
the
hous
of
thy
fader
/
that
is
to
saie
leue
alle
the
mynde
and
remembraunce
of
thys
world
entyerly
so
that
thou
haue
there
to
no
loue
ne
affeccyon
/
Alas
many
ther
be
in
these
dayes
of
relygyous
people
whyche
haue
not
but
thabyte
of
relygyon
.
and
haue
renounced
nothing
but
only
that
byte
of
the
world
.
They
wyl
haue
the
delyces
of
the
worlde
/
and
the
reuerence
of
relygyon
wyhout
payne
¶
They
doo
grete
payne
to
gadre
to
gyder
fynaunces
for
to
mounte
in
hye
●●ate
or
for
to
despènde
it
in
èuyll
vsages
¶
They
wyl
haue
games
and
esbatementes
of
houndes
and
of
hawkes
/
&
gyue
to
theyr
houndes
that
.
whyche
they
ought
to
gyue
to
the
poure
for
the
loue
of
god
.
to
th
ende
that
they
praye
for
the
poure
sonles
whyche
haue
lefte
to
them
the
goodes
.
and
gyuen
to
them
the
rentes
.
by
whyche
they
kepe
and
mayntene
grete
estate
▪
and
doo
lytyl
theyr
deuoyr
to
that
they
ought
to
doo
they
loue
better
two
knaues
to
lede
theyr
houndes
▪
than
two
chapelains
for
to
doo
the
dyuyne
seruyce
and
offyce
.
atte
leste
yf
they
wyll
not
doo
:
late
them
doo
it
to
be
doon
for
to
dyscharge
theyr
soules
they
be
horsed
lyke
vnto
knyghtes
for
yf
thou
recountre
&
mete
a
knyght
and
a
relygyous
man
.
thou
shalt
not
conne
dyscerne
.
whyche
is
the
knyght
.
And
whyche
is
the
relygyous
now
in
these
dayes
:
Saynt
bernard
sayth
that
on
thys
day
the
robe
of
a
monke
.
and
the
robe
of
a
kuyght
ben
alle
of
one
cloth
.
and
also
is
the
goun
of
a
monke
as
wel
furred
and
purlfid
better
atte
hond
than
is
the
robe
of
a
knyght
▪
how
wel
that
the
rule
sayth
/
that
a
monke
shold
be
clad
not
of
the
derrest
and
best
cloth
▪
but
of
the
moste
vyle
.
And
sayth
Gregore
sayth
that
the
seruaunt
of
our
lord
ought
not
to
seche
vesture
ne
clothyng
for
to
playse
the
world
.
but
onely
.
to
kepe
hym
fro
the
cold
.
¶
Example
Exam
¶
It
is
redde
of
a
knyght
/
the
whyche
was
tuyl
horsed
/
and
mette
a
monk
whyche
rood
on
a
good
hors
&
was
in
grete
estate
.
to
whome
he
demaunded
what
he
was
.
the
monke
ansuered
to
hym
that
he
had
no
lord
but
god
.
¶
The
knyght
sayd
yf
ye
serue
hym
.
in
lyke
wyse
doo
I.
We
ben
brethern
and
felawes
But
we
haue
not
euynly
parted
.
For
ye
ben
ryght
wel
horsed
and
well
cladde
.
And
I
am
ryght
pourely
.
I
wyll
as
longe
were
your
vesture
and
ryde
your
hors
/
as
ye
haue
/
And
toke
from
hym
all
/
¶
Loo
here
ye
may
see
how
the
monke
by
hys
pryde
gaaf
euyl
example
to
the
knyght
and
occasyon
to
doo
euylle
▪
¶
O
thou
relygyons
persone
what
someuer
thou
be
whan
thou
art
in
religyon
that
thou
be
wythynforth
like
as
thyn
habyte
sheweth
wythout
forth
that
is
to
saye
a
very
religyous
&
trewe
seruaunt
of
god
of
whom
thou
brest
the
leuerey
.
for
by
the
leuerey
ben
the
meyne
of
a
lord
knowen
.
yf
thou
be
suche
as
thyn
habyt
sheweth
.
I
doubte
not
/
but
that
thou
holdest
thy self
and
reputest
the
for
deed
to
the
world
.
For
thou
hast
lefte
the
glorye
of
the
world
▪
And
how
wel
that
thou
hast
playsyrs
.
tases
and
delyces
of
the
world
to
thy
dampuacyon
.
Neuertheles
thou
art
not
so
abandouned
to
the
world
in
dede
/
how
wel
that
thou
be
in
thy
herte
lyke
as
thou
were
of
the
world
/
And
also
thou
lesest
god
and
the
world
.
And
shalt
haue
in
thys
world
and
in
that
other
torment
/
Proprete
in
the
persone
of
relygyon
is
a
right
horrible
synne
/
and
hath
be
many
tymes
greuously
punysshed
in
tyme
passed
.
¶
The
holy
scripture
sayth
that
the
Apostles
and
dyscyples
of
our
lord
after
hys
passyon
lyueden
in
suche
wyse
that
ther
was
not
one
that
sayd
thys
is
myn
but
they
dystribued
to
euerich
after
that
he
had
nede
.
¶
Example
.
Exam
It
happed
that
there
was
a
man
named
Ananye
.
And
hys
wyf
called
saphyre
whyche
were
of
the
comynalte
of
the
discyples
.
and
sold
a
felde
that
they
had
and
brought
a
parte
of
the
money
to
the
feet
of
the
apostles
:
&
reteyned
that
other
parte
.
Saynt
peter
sayd
to
them
.
what
is
thys
that
ye
haue
doo
.
ye
lye
not
to
vs
whyche
lyue
wyth
vs
and
retryne
propre
good
/
but
ye
lye
and
be
vntrewe
ayenst
the
holy
ghoost
.
And
and
ne
they
deyd
sodaynly
▪
tofore
alle
th
apostlee
and
dyscyples
/
wherfore
they
doubted
moche
for
to
reteyne
ony
thyng
proper
/
¶
Example
.
Saint
gregore
recounteth
in
hys
dyalogue
that
Exam
in
hys
monastery
in
whyche
he
duelled
and
wherof
he
was
gouernour
tofore
he
was
pope
.
that
there
was
a
monke
named
Juste
the
whyche
was
a
physycyen
▪
¶
And
it
happed
that
thys
monke
was
seke
.
And
whan
he
sawe
that
he
shold
deye
.
he
sayd
to
hys
brother
whyche
was
a
seculer
/
¶
I
haue
sayd
he
hyd
thre
floryns
in
suche
a
place
▪
¶
And
told
it
not
to
hys
brethern
of
the
relygyon
.
¶
The
monkes
cain
in
to
hys
chambre
.
And
serched
oueral
and
fonden
the
thre
floryns
the
whyche
they
shewed
to
saynt
Gregore
.
whyche
thenne
was
moche
angry
/
by
cause
that
he
that
lyued
in
comynalte
wyth
them
had
made
tresour
for
hym self
onely
and
that
at
hys
deth
he
had
not
she
wde
it
to
hys
brethern
.
Saynt
Gregory
for
to
puruere
for
remedye
to
the
helthe
of
thys
monke
▪
and
to
th
ende
that
he
had
contrycyon
and
repentaunce
of
hys
synnes
▪
and
for
to
gyue
ensample
to
other
he
comauuded
that
none
of
hys
brethern
.
shold
be
at
his
deth
.
and
that
he
shold
not
haue
confort
ne
consolacyon
of
them
And
yf
he
demannded
of
hys
brother
seculer
whyche
kepte
hym
.
why
hys
brethern
vysyted
not
hym
that
he
shold
ansuere
hym
.
by
cause
thou
hast
made
tresour
.
and
haste
not
delyuered
it
to
the
couent
they
haue
abhomynacyon
of
the
Saynt
Gregore
dyde
it
by
cause
he
shold
haue
contricyon
of
hys
synne
to fore
he
d●yde
.
and
saint
gregorye
sayd
to
hys
felawes
/
whan
he
shal
be
deed
burye
hym
not
in
the
cyme
●orye
of
the
brethern
.
but
make
a
pytt
in
th
donghyl
&
caste
hym
ther
in
&
caste
the
thre
floryns
vpon
hym
sayeng
thy
money
be
wyth
the
in
perdycion
▪
and
after
couere
hym
wyth
erthe
.
whan
the
other
brethern
sawe
thys
.
they
doubted
moche
to
reteyne
ony
thynge
that
was
contrarie
to
theyr
soule
.
and
alle
that
they
had
.
And
also
that
whyche
was
lawful
for
them
to
reteyne
they
brought
all
in
comyn
/
therty
dayes
after
that
the
monke
was
deed
saynt
Gregorye
sayd
to
one
of
his
brethern
/
¶
It
is
a
grete
whil
that
the
soule
of
our
brother
hath
be
in
purgatorye
.
goo
forth
/
and
fro
hens
forth
:
to
therty
dayes
saye
euery
day
a
masse
for
hym
.
And
see
wel
that
thou
faylle
not
▪
And
he
faylled
not
▪
¶
And
the
therty
day
after
that
/
the
deed
monke
appered
to
hys
brother
seculer
that
lyued
¶
And
he
demaunded
hym
how
it
stode
wyth
hym
.
The
deed
monke
ansuered
to
hym
.
I
haue
been
ouer
euyl
at
case
vnto
thys
day
.
But
now
I
am
wel
▪
¶
For
thys
day
I
haue
receyued
the
goodes
and
masses
that
haue
be
sayd
for
me
/
Saynt
Bernard
sayth
that
wh●
a
mouke
entendeth
to
haue
rychesses
of
the
world
.
He
gyueth
ouer
euyl
ensample
to
the
seculers
.
And
sayth
that
he
taketh
agayn
that
.
whyche
he
hath
lefte
.
And
resembleth
the
hound
that
retorneth
agayn
to
hys
wmyte
.
¶
And
saynt
Iherome
sayth
that
a
monke
whyche
hath
euyl
entencyon
to
proprete
is
not
worth
an
halfpeny
.
¶
In
lawe
canon
is
not
supposed
that
an
Abbotte
may
not
dispence
that
hys
monke
may
haue
ne
reteyne
propre
.
¶
For
the
renoncyacyon
of
proprete
is
annexed
to
the
rule
of
monkes
.
lyke
as
is
the
dowe
of
chastyte
.
In
suche
wyse
that
the
pope
may
not
dyspence
wyth
a
monke
beyng
a
monke
.
¶
But
the
pope
may
wel
make
of
a
monke
noo
monke
.
For
he
may
make
hym
a
bysshop
/
¶
And
by
that
he
shal
be
nomore
subget
to
the
rule
of
monkes
/
A
relygyous
ought
to
be
poure
in
dede
and
in
will
veryly
/
For
soo
he
hath
avowed
.
Saynt
Iherome
saith
.
that
he
is
not
poure
.
but
is
riche
ynowh
.
that
lacketh
noo
brede
/
¶
Example
.
We
rede
in
the
lyf
of
Exam
faders
/
that
a
poure
monke
solytarye
was
seke
by
the
espace
of
therty
dayes
.
¶
And
there
was
none
that
vysyted
hym
.
God
sente
to
hym
an
Aungell
fro
heuen
whyche
kepte
hym
.
And
mynystred
to
hym
hys
necessytees
¶
It
happed
thenne
that
the
other
f●●●es
of
the
deserte
cam
and
vysyted
hym
And
anone
the
Aungel
departed
thens
.
The
seke
man
began
to
crie
to
the
brethern
sayeng
goo
hens
.
For
whan
ye
were
come
the
Aungel
that
serued
me
wente
away
.
¶
Th●
relygyouses
oughten
to
be
chaste
.
For
they
●e
bounden
to
kepe
it
and
haue
avowed
it
.
¶
Chastyte
is
a
moche
fayre
vertue
.
But
who
that
wyl
kepe
it
wel
/
●e
muste
flee
alle
companye
of
wymmen
.
¶
Saynt
bernard
sayth
yf
thou
muste
nedes
speke
to
a
woman
speke
but
lytyl
/
and
beholde
her
not
●yely
in
the
vysage
.
and
touche
her
not
by
the
hondes
for
ouermoche
harme
may
come
therof
.
ne
sytte
not
to
nyght
her
.
ne
lawhe
not
lightly
come
in
no
detke
place
to
sepeke
to
hyr
.
For
in
alle
these
thynges
yf
ther
be
noo
synne
.
yet
ther
is
suspecyounof
them
that
see
it
or
knowe
it
.
and
so
ther
is
blame
/
and
whan
thou
shalt
speke
to
a
woman
/
holde
the
in
suche
manere
/
and
also
hounestli
as
thou
Woldest
doo
yf
he
rhusboud
were
there
present
or
ellis
thy
prelate
.
to
the
ende
that
yf
ony
cam
vpon
you
.
that
thou
haue
noo
cause
to
be
a
shamed
/
And
also
saynt
bernard
counseylleth
the
that
thou
haue
no
famylya●yte
to
ony
woman
what
someuer
she
be
.
r●lygyouse
ne
other
.
For
many
tymes
comen
therof
grete
pe●llis
and
euyl
temptacyons
.
¶
And
I
saye
to
the
yf
thou
haue
good
peas
of
herte
and
wyth
god
▪
flee
all
famylyaryte
of
wymmen
.
And
loue
them
alle
lyke
wel
.
especyally
the
good
and
deuoute
.
and
occupye
the
not
wyth
them
.
for
lyke
as
we
haue
sayd
tofore
thou
art
not
more
holy
than
was
Dauyd
.
more
wyse
than
was
Salomon
.
ne
more
stronge
than
was
sampsom
/
the
whiche
were
moche
deceyued
by
wymen
/
Item
I
counseylle
the
sayth
saynt
bernard
:
that
thou
●erke
ne
ne
here
gladly
a
woman
speke
/
For
whan
thou
herest
hir
speke
.
she
enflameth
the
/
It
is
a
moche
sure
thyng
that
thou
see
hir
not
For
whan
thou
seest
hir
she
enuenymeth
the.
but
it
is
moche
more
sure
whan
thou
thouchest
hir
not
.
For
whan
she
thouche
.
h
the.
she
fowleth
the
/
Example
.
it
is
.
redde
:
of
an
hermyte
Exam
that
his
moder
cam
for
to
see
him
▪
&
whan
she
sholde
retorne
/
he
conueyed
her
▪
It
happed
that
they
shold
passe
ariuer
▪
and
the
her
mite
toke
hir
for
to
bere
ouer
the
watter
▪
but
he
wrapped
hys
handes
wyth
hys
mantel
.
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
not
touche
hyr
flessh
/
And
she
that
sawe
wel
hys
entencyon
sayd
to
hym
.
Caytyf
wherfore
art
thou
a
●erd
to
touche
me
/
¶
I
am
thy
moder
¶
It
is
good
to
wete
.
that
whan
he
wold
not
touche
her
at
the
departyng
/
that
he
kyssed
her
not
at
hyr
comyng
.
¶
Of
thobeyssaunce
in
relygyon
.
Capitulo
lxxvj
THe
relygyous
peple
owen
to
be
obedyent
to
theyr
prelat●
For
they
haue
auowed
obeyssaunce
vnto
the
deth
.
saint
poul
sayth
that
our
lord
Ihesu
criste
was
obeyssaunt
vnto
god
his
fader
vnto
the
deth
that
he
suffred
on
the
crosse
for
vs
:
saint
Bernard
saith
that
the
very
obeyssaunt
obeysseth
anon
and
abydeth
not
tyl
on
the
morn
.
saynt
Gregore
sayth
that
thou
oughtest
not
to
dysobeye
thyn
euyl
prelate
whan
he
comandeth
the
to
doo
well
.
ne
thou
oughtest
not
obeye
thy
good
prelate
whan
he
comandeth
the
to
doo
euyll
.
¶
Example
.
We
rede
of
an
abbot
Exam
whyche
wold
on
a
tyme
proue
the
good
obeyssaunce
of
a
good
monke
that
he
had
/
and
comauuded
hym
to
goo
in
and
entre
in
to
an
hoot
ouen
/
and
that
he
shold
make
dene
the
ouen
for
to
sette
in
the
brede
.
and
anon
the
monke
entred
in
and
made
right
clene
the
ouen
/
and
after
com
out
.
and
had
none
harme
:
wherof
th
abbot
was
moche
abasshyd
of
thobeyssan̄ce
of
the
monke
:
Alas
sayth
sa●t
bernard
how
grete
dyfference
is
it
now
of
vs
/
to
thoo
monkes
that
were
in
the
tyme
of
saynt
Antoney
for
many
tymes
whan
they
vysyted
that
one
the
other
.
they
spaken
so
of
spyrytuall
thynges
.
that
they
forgate
theyr
etynge
and
drinkyug
/
And
on
thys
day
there
is
none
that
d●ma
undeth
celestyal
bred
/
ne
also
that
will
gyue
it
.
that
is
the
word
of
god
for
to
fede
the
spyrytuel
soule
/
but
now
whan
we
et●
as
many
as
ther
be
of
messes
.
so
moche
is
there
of
rumours
/
and
we
saye
thys
is
not
wel
soden
.
or
rosted
.
the
sauce
is
not
made
well
/
the
mete
is
to
lytyl
salted
/
or
ellis
it
is
to
moche
/
The
good
monke
saith
saynt
bernard
ought
to
resemble
the
asse
he
ought
doo
that
he
is
comaunded
&
onght
to
ete
that
whiche
is
sette
to
fore
him
.
late
vs
not
speke
now
of
flessh
saith
saint
bernard
.
for
it
is
fobeden
to
vs
.
but
if
it
be
to
them
that
be
seke
&
●eble
of
body
.
but
of
fyssh
.
whiche
be
of
iij
or
iiij
maner
of
facyon
/
and
in
diuerce
maners
.
we
wyl
haue
the
egges
.
somwyl
haue
them
rested
.
som
boyled
.
&
other
wyl
haue
them
fried
.
&
wherfor
is
this
.
but
for
to
satisfye
the
taast
.
&
what
shal
I
saye
sayth
seynt
bernard
for
to
drinke
clere
water
whan
we
retche
not
to
drinke
wyne
:
but
yf
it
be
clere
.
and
yf
it
be
not
pure
&
fyn
&
in
dyuerse
maners
.
ther
shal
be
grete
noyse
▪
And
many
ther
be
that
chaunge
theyr
cuppe
ij
or
iij
tymes
in
a
mele
.
and
saye
I
wyl
haue
that
&
I
wyl
haue
thys
.
and
thys
is
not
good
&
in
many
places
at
grete
vestes
.
they
shal
saye
that
they
ought
to
haue
wyne
spyced
and
made
wyth
good
pouldres
.
and
wherfore
is
this
/
but
for
to
drinke
the
more
.
and
the
more
delycyously
▪
and
whan
he
shal
haue
moche
dronken
and
that
the
wyn
shal
mounte
in
to
hys
brayne
.
what
shal
they
doo
.
whan
they
be
rysen
fro
the
table
.
they
wyl
not
rede
ne
studye
but
wyl
slepe
or
playe
▪
as
sone
as
we
be
monkes
sayth
saynt
bernard
we
haue
an
euyl
stomak
/
or
we
be
seke
.
and
ben
so
delycate
▪
that
none
may
serue
vs
to
our
plesir
/
and
many
ther
be
that
whan
they
were
in
the
world
they
lyued
moche
pourely
and
with
grete
payne
:
&
lyueden
sobrely
.
&
helde
for
grete
largesse
that
▪
whiche
they
hold
at
gret
vilete
in
their
religyon
/
They
be
glotons
gormantes
/
&
lykorous
and
none
can
serue
them
at
their
playsir
/
and
ben
more
proude
in
wordes
&
dedes
.
more
worse
for
to
serue
than
ben
they
that
come
fro
grete
houses
&
many
richesses
and
what
shal
I
saye
.
of
our
habyte
saith
saint
bernard
whiche
was
wont
▪
to
be
of
humylite
&
now
with
grete
payne
may
be
founde
in
our
ꝓuince
ony
cloth
that
we
wyl
were
or
bere
for
yf
ther
come
a
grete
lord
of
the
world
in
to
our
hows
he
shold
be
wel
content
to
be
clothed
wyth
suche
cloth
as
we
haue
Alas
religyon
is
moche
wasted
▪
none
wil
shewe
by
werkes
/
ne
.
by
enseyguements
/
and
where
as
the
relygiouses
were
wonte
to
be
sayntes
&
holi
they
be
almost
alle
dissolute
/
Theyr
is
none
estate
in
the
worlde
of
whiche
but
the
relygiouses
wil
entremete
/
they
wylle
be
marchanns
werof
some
by
come
meshauns
.
they
will
be
gossybbes
they
wyl
be
hunters
.
they
wyl
be
fysshers
of
fysshe
and
not
of
the
soules
.
and
more
playseth
them
thesbatement
and
songe
of
byrdes
of
the
felde
than
dooth
the
songe
of
the
chyrche
For
many
/
ther
be
that
whan
they
be
in
the
chirche
.
they
ben
anon
hoors
●
eurumed
and
may
not
synge
and
that
they
saye
or
doo
▪
they
doo
negligently
and
slowly
wythoute
affection
wythout
deuocion
and
without
renerence
/
and
alle
way
they
be
ydle
in
the
chirche
or
a
slepe
.
but
to
thiges
of
the
world
they
be
all
way
redy
&
wakyng
▪
and
they
holde
them
so
disordyueth
and
foulli
in
the
chirche
that
it
is
a
grete
abusion
/
Saint
bernart
saith
that
whan
thou
shalt
be
in
the
chirche
▪
kepe
&
holde
the
reuerentli
as
he
that
is
in
the
presence
of
god
.
yf
thou
hane
noo
deuotion
yet
doo
it
/
for
to
shewe
example
to
other
I
meruaylle
saith
saiut
bernart
how
the
prelates
suffre
so
many
desolucions
to
be
doon
as
bee
doon
m
these
dayes
m
religyon
/
but
yf
it
be
by
cause
that
one
wyl
not
repreue
a nother
gladly
of
that
he
is
entatched
/
For
they
that
shold
be
our
myrrour
&
ou●
exemplayre
by
therr
werkes
ben
blynde
and
leden
the
blynde
Example
It
is
rede
of
Exam
an
Abbot
whiche
lyuede
alle
his
dayes
in
grete
vyandes
and
metes
&
was
clad
with
right
syn
cloth
▪
It
happed
on
a
day
/
as
he
had
gretely
dyned
▪
and
his
monkes
had
in
the
couuent
as
who
sayth
nought
or
lytyl
.
Af●●t
dyner
he
conmanded
to
one
of
his
monkes
the
whiche
had
enyl
dyned
and
sayd
to
hym
moche
rudely
that
he
shold
doo
som
thyng
.
the
monk
dyde
it
not
anone
Thabbot
was
angri
and
sayd
to
hym
.
brother
thou
hast
not
doo
that
whiche
I
haue
commanded
the
The
monke
ansuerd
to
hym
/
I
am
your
brother
●●●ly
/
but
your
robe
is
not
lyke
to
myne
.
ne
your
dysshe
is
not
semblable
to
myn
/
¶
Thabbot
helde
hym
alle
confused
.
Many
there
be
of
relygyon
.
whyche
neuer
be
eased
.
but
yf
they
be
out
of
theyr
cloystre
/
how
wel
that
an
holy
man
saych
.
that
lyke
as
a
fysshe
may
not
lyue
out
of
the
water
nomore
may
a
monke
lyue
spiryrituelly
.
out
of
hys
cloistre
.
Retorne
thenne
as
shortly
as
thou
mayste
.
And
mayntene
the
the
beste
wyse
that
thou
shal
conne
mowe
to
thy
salnacyon
For
thou
shalt
not
so
sone
retorne
ne
so
wel
mayntene
thy self
but
that
it
behoueth
to
doo
grete
paine
tofore
thou
shalt
be
in
suche
deuocyon
ne
also
wel
sette
agayn
in
thy
conscyence
.
as
thou
were
whan
thou
departedest
¶
To
whom
one
ought
to
be
confessed
/
Cao.
lxxvij
TOfore
we
speke
of
confession
we
shal
saye
to
whome
one
ought
to
be
confessed
.
No
prest
may
assoylle
but
yf
he
be
thy
propre
prest
.
Thy
propre
preste
is
called
in
sixe
maners
fyrst
the
pastour
of
the
chyrche
as
the
prelate
or
c●●●te
secondly
he
that
is
cōinysed
by
the
prelate
or
curate
.
or
vycarye
/
Thirdely
they
that
haue
preuylege
of
the
pope
.
Fourthly
they
that
haue
licence
of
the
curate
▪
but
he
ought
to
amytte
non
/
but
discrete
psones
.
honeste
.
&
knowen
/
fyfthly
in
necessyte
for
in
necessyte
euery
prest
may
a●soille
in
peril
of
deth
&
the
pilgrims
be
assoylled
in
pylgrimage
of
them
that
confesse
them
.
syxthly
for
the
defaulte
of
thy
prest
whan
he
is
an
ydeote
.
or
whan
he
sheweth
the
confessyon
or
whan
he
praieth
the
wymen
that
they
confesse
them
to
hym
of
euyl
loue
/
In
alle
these
cases
yf
thou
fynde
a
prest
that
hath
auctorite
to
assoille
/
thou
mayst
confesse
the
to
hym
so
that
he
be
knowen
dyscrete
of
ordre
.
and
of
persone
/
yf
thou
be
of
religion
none
may
assoille
the
without
licē●e
of
hym
that
hath
the
cure
or
charge
of
the.
but
yf
it
be
in
necessite
that
thou
mayst
not
haue
thy
pastour
or
hys
d●byte
or
yf
thou
were
so
contumax
and
so
peruerse
that
thou
wylt
not
confesse
the
to
thy
pastour
or
to
hym
whome
he
hath
commysed
/
Thenne
for
peril
that
thou
deye
not
wythout
confessyon
or
wythout
counseyl
some
dyscrete
and
approued
confessour
or
prest
may
assoil
le
the
¶
Item
it
is
of
necessite
that
the
good
preste
hyde
the
confessyon
by
cause
of
the
sacrament
of
confessyon
¶
I
am
also
that
one
confesse
hym
the
more
hardyly
.
And
knowe
ye
that
the
preste
ought
not
to
hyde
onely
the
confession
.
but
also
alle
the
thynges
whyche
may
be
perceyued
of
the
synnar
or
of
the
synne
▪
&
though
the
synnar
gyue
licence
to
thy
confessour
to
saye
ony
synne
of
him
that
he
hereth
in
confessyon
yet
the
confes
sour
ought
not
in
ony
wyse
to
open
it
.
but
if
he
knowe
it
other
wyse
than
by
confession
/
&
yet
it
is
not
right
sure
or
expedient
to
open
thenne
&
yt
maye
without
grete
inconuenyents
other
wyse
be
eschewed
/
yf
thou
demande
yf
the
prest
knowe
ony
thyng
that
thou
saist
to
hym
in
confessyon
afore
or
after
that
thou
confessest
the.
he
is
not
bounde
to
hyde
it
.
but
yf
it
playse
hym
.
as
touchyng
to
thys
.
that
he
knoweth
it
as
a
man
.
som
saie
to
a
preste
som
thyng
in
secrete
.
And
they
saye
to
hym
I
telle
it
to
you
in
confessyon
.
and
kepe
not
in
thus
sayeng
the
maner
ne
th
ordynaunce
of
confessyon
.
and
therfore
yf
he
shewe
thys
/
he
sheweth
not
the
confessyon
.
but
he
dooth
ouermoche
euyl
to
shewe
the
counseyl
of
another
/
yf
a
prest
haue
herd
ony
thyng
in
confession
and
it
happeth
that
he
is
called
to
wytnesse
tofore
a
iuge
personelly
that
he
shal
say
yf
he
knowe
ony
thyng
of
that
thyng
yf
he
knewe
it
otherwyse
than
by
confessyon
he
may
saye
it
wythout
peryll
.
but
yf
he
knowe
it
not
but
by
confession
he
may
swere
surely
that
he
knoweth
nothyng
therof
/
for
he
knoweth
it
not
as
a
man
.
but
as
a
vycarye
of
god
/
Of
the
payne
of
a
prest
that
sheweth
the
confession
.
Cao.
lxxviij
SAynt
gregore
sayth
in
the
holy
canon
.
late
the
prest
take
good
hede
of
what
thyng
be
sayd
to
hym
in
confessyon
that
he
telle
it
not
to
neyghbour
ne
to
other
that
duelle
ferre
ne
by
sygne
ne
tokene
ne
shlaundre
/
ne
to
ony
other
persone
ony
thyng
.
and
yf
he
doo
.
that
he
be
deposed
fro
hys
benefyce
.
and
all
the
dayes
of
hys
lyf
be
he
in
infamye
thurgh
the
world
Item
the
pope
Innocent
sayth
in
the
newe
constitucyon
/
late
the
prest
kepe
hym
wel
aboue
alle
thynges
that
of
thyng
sayd
to
hym
in
confeyon
he
saye
ne
telle
it
not
ne
by
sygne
ne
other
wyse
&
also
in
no
maner
he
accuse
hym
that
is
confessyd
to
him
¶
And
yf
he
haue
nede
of
better
counseyl
than
hys
owen
.
lete
hym
demaunde
wythout
ony
namyng
the
synner
by
hys
name
/
For
who
someuer
in
Jugement
of
penaunce
shal
she
we
in
ony
wyse
the
synne
that
hath
be
sayd
to
hym
in
confessyon
.
not
all
onely
of
th
offyce
of
presthode
we
wyl
that
he
be
deposed
.
but
also
wyth
that
we
wyll
that
he
be
put
in
sharp
pryson
/
For
to
suffre
greuous
penannce
¶
Of
the
sacrament
of
penaunce
Capitulo
.
lxxix
As
to
the
sacrament
of
penaunce
whiche
is
the
iiij
sacrament
of
holy
chyrche
.
but
it
is
sette
here
the
laste
for
to
accorde
to
the
other
Tofore
that
the
synners
be
reconsyled
to
god
thre
thinges
be
requysyte
that
is
to
wete
.
confessyon
/
contricyon
.
and
satysfaccion
Confessyon
and
hys
vertue
shal
be
declared
here
folowyng
.
Contricyon
is
to
haue
sorowe
atte
herte
and
grete
repentaunce
of
alle
hys
synnes
.
and
to
haue
stedfast
pnrpos
fro
than
forthon
to
kepe
and
absteyne
hym
fro
alle
dedely
synnes
/
For
who
that
hath
entencyon
to
retorne
to
dedely
synne
.
hys
confessyon
avaylleth
hym
nothyng
.
and
yf
he
be
houseled
in
suche
estate
he
synneth
dedely
.
And
yf
he
deye
in
suche
estate
he
shal
be
dampned
perdurably
¶
Of
confessyon
and
of
hys
vertue
.
Capitulo
:
lxxx
COnfessyon
is
the
second
parte
of
penaunce
.
whan
one
is
confessyd
and
repentaunt
of
alle
his
synnes
/
&
hath
sted
fast
purpos
to
absteyne
hym self
fro
alle
dedely
synnes
and
for
to
amende
hym
.
Thenne
confessyon
is
of
so
grete
vertu
.
that
it
is
as
a
second
baptesme
/
&
as
a
fontayne
in
whyche
ben
wasshen
and
forgyuen
alle
synnes
what
someuer
they
be
/
and
thys
confessyon
as
sayth
saint
bernard
destwyeth
alle
synnes
and
restablyssheth
alle
vertues
.
The
augellys
reioye
them
.
and
it
confoundeth
the
deuylles
.
ir
reconnceileth
the
soule
to
god
.
it
closeth
helle
and
it
openeth
heuen
.
Welle
blessyd
is
he
that
of
●e
is
laued
and
wasshen
in
thys
fontayne
.
For
yf
he
kepe
hym
in
purete
and
cleunesse
of
conscyence
.
and
in
the
loue
of
god
.
he
is
the
more
stronge
to
doo
good
werkes
/
&
to
kepe
him
fro
the
sende
of
helle
and
may
the
better
endure
ayenst
the
euyllis
that
may
come
.
¶
Of
the
scyences
that
prestes
shold
haue
that
here
confession
&
how
they
shold
demaunde
the
synnes
Capitulo
.
lxxxi
THe
preste
that
taketh
the
charge
for
to
confesse
:
ought
to
haue
scyence
for
to
inge
wel
and
to
knowe
the
synner
&
his
synne
/
and
for
to
gyue
penaunce
after
the
quantyte
of
the
synne
.
yf
the
synner
dooth
the
penauuce
suche
as
the
prest
enioyneth
hym
:
he
shal
be
delyured
fro
dāpnacyou
.
but
yf
by
fauour
.
or
by
doubte
.
or
by
deffaulte
of
scyence
the
prest
gyueth
lasse
penaunce
than
he
ought
.
he
shal
bere
the
payne
.
Also
the
synner
ought
to
doo
good
dylygence
to
haue
a
good
physycyen
for
to
hele
hys
soule
of
the
maladye
of
synne
.
lyke
as
he
shold
doo
to
se
she
a
good
physycyen
for
to
haue
the
helthe
of
his
body
lyke
as
Exam
saynt
Augustyn
sayth
.
¶
Example
.
We
rede
that
at
paris
was
a
man
that
knewe
hys
doughter
flesshly
.
after
they
went
and
coufessyd
them
vnto
a
wyse
and
a
discrete
prest
a
penyten
●er
/
The
doughter
had
so
grete
contrycyon
and
wepte
so
greuously
that
she
myght
not
saye
her
synne
&
sayd
that
she
might
neuer
doo
worthy
penaunce
for
hir
synne
.
The
fader
was
so
harded
of
hys
synne
and
had
no
shame
to
confesse
hym
therof
The
penytauncer
sawe
the
contrycyon
of
the
doughter
and
sayd
to
her
/
I
enioyne
the
in
penaunce
that
thou
faste
iij
dayes
to
brede
and
water
/
Syre
said
she
I
am
redy
for
to
faste
all
the
dayes
of
my
lyf
to
brede
and
water
yf
it
playse
you
.
for
me
semeth
yet
it
lytyl
to
the
regarde
of
the
gretenes
of
my
synne
.
the
penytancer
sayd
to
her
it
suffiseth
.
I
wyl
enioine
to
the
nomore
&
after
he
said
to
the
fader
.
that
him
semeth
that
he
had
no
shame
ne
coutricōn
of
his
synne
.
I
enioine
to
the
that
all
the
daies
of
thy
lif
thou
bere
the
heyre
next
thy
flessh
.
&
that
thou
faste
as
long
as
thou
liuest
iij
daies
of
the
weke
to
brede
&
water
.
&
he
was
angry
&
murmured
strongly
&
considered
not
that
the
cōtricōn
of
his
doughter
was
rekened
to
her
for
satisfacion
.
and
for
¶
hys
grete
hardnesse
he
ought
to
hane
the
more
penaunce
.
The
preest
ought
benygnly
to
receyue
the
sinner
.
and
ought
to
haue
pyte
and
compassion
of
hym
and
ought
swetely
to
demande
of
hym
of
comyn
synnes
and
also
of
the
obscures
.
to
th
ende
that
they
shold
not
haue
occasyon
of
sinne
/
that
is
to
wete
of
the
vij
dedely
synnes
.
of
the
v
/
wyttes
of
nafe
.
of
the
vij
werkes
of
merci
of
the.
x
comandements
of
the
lawe
.
Item
yf
he
can
the
pater
noster
.
the
a●e
maria
&
▪
the
credo
in
deum
.
&
yf
he
can
it
not
he
ought
to
saye
to
hym
that
he
lerne
it
thenne
he
ought
to
demande
hym
of
what
estate
he
is
be
he
man
or
woman
or
in
dignyte
or
in
none
/
or
noble
or
bourgeis
or
clerke
or
religyous
¶
And
yf
he
be
of
religyon
he
ought
to
demande
of
him
yf
he
haue
lycence
of
his
pastour
for
to
confesse
.
hym
to
another
than
of
his
ordre
.
For
otherwyse
he
ought
not
to
resseyue
hym
But
yf
it
be
in
caas
as
we
haue
to fore
sayd
in
the
chapytre
to
whome
one
ought
to
confesse
hym
yf
it
be
a
woman
she
ought
to
sytte
on
the
side
of
hym
:
that
is
to
wete
on
his
lyft
fide
/
&
he
ought
not
to
beholde
hir
ne
the
vysage
and
ought
to
saye
to
hyr
swetely
that
she
saye
her
synnes
wel
and
hardyly
without
to
haue
drede
ne
shame
for
she
speketh
to
god
/
&
not
to
a
man
/
and
he
onght
to
saye
to
hyr
that
god
is
pyetous
and
mercyful
/
For
they
that
shal
doo
moste
penance
in
this
world
/
shal
be
moste
loued
and
exalted
of
god
:
As
it
apperith
in
dauid
saynt
peter
.
saint
poul-and
in
marie
magdalene-and
he
ought
to
saye
that
the
shame
that
one
sayth
his
synnes
is
grete
parte
of
hys
penaunce
And
see
wel
that
to
a
yonge
woman
he
gyne
no
penaunce
to
god
on
pilgremage
For
therin
is
moche
peryll
/
ne
also
to
a
woman
maryed
.
he
gyne
no
penaunce
by
whiche
her
husbond
may
apperceyue
that
she
hath
trespased
a●
enft
him
:
yf
the
synner
be
enharded
.
and
that
he
wyl
not
wel
confesse
hym
/
the
prest
ouht
to
saye
to
hym
the
peryllis
that
ther
is
theryn
and
saye
yf
thou
wylt
/
thou
shalt
be
saued-And
yf
thou
wylt
thou
shalt
be
dampned
:
It
is
better
to
haue
a
lityl
shame
of
me
/
than
to
haue
shame
and
confusion
tofore
god
&
alle
hys
sayntes
atte
the
day
of
Jugement
wyth
dampnacyon
perpetuell
.
Example
we
rede
of
a
noble
nonne
of
good
lyf
Exam
and
holy
the
whyche
was
deceyued
of
the
fende
.
and
was
grete
wyth
hyr
seruaunt
and
varlet
.
she
supposed
to
quenche
hyr
synne
by
grete
penaunce
of
her
body
&
harde
lyf
that
she
ladde
longe
tyme
she
waylled
&
wepte
moche
.
but
she
durst
neuer
confesse
hyr
synne
:
as
wel
for
hys
noblesse
:
as
for
the
holynesse
of
whyche
she
was
renomed
.
&
deyde
wythout
to
confesse
this
sinne
and
was
dampned
perpetuelly
.
lyke
as
she
made
reuelacyon
to
th
abesse
whiche
was
hyr
aunte
.
to
whome
she
appered
after
hir
deeth
bering
a
chyld
bytwene
her
armes
all
embraced
with
fyre
/
whyche
breuned
all
her
body
/
And
she
sayd
to
hyr
that
she
shold
neuer
doo
noo
good
for
her
/
for
she
was
dampned
perpetuelly
.
For
that
onely
that
she
durst
neuer
confesse
her
of
that
sinne
/
to
th
ende
that
she
shold
not
be
holden
for
vyle
&
for
a
synner
O
for
goodes
sake
ye
fayre
maidens
&
swete
wymen
whiche
by
nature
ye
be
shamefaste
take
ye
her
by
ensample
.
and
lese
not
your
fayre
soules
ne
also
youre
bodyes
for
lytil
shame
whyche
is
sone
passed
/
ye
see
that
thys
woman
that
had
doon
so
many
good
dedes
that
she
myght
haue
be
a
saint
in
heuen
yf
she
had
confessed
of
thys
synne
.
and
now
she
hath
all
loste
for
a
lityl
shame
/
¶
And
holde
ye
not
our
lord
for
hard
/
thaugh
for
one
dedely
synne
he
hath
suffred
to
lese
a
persone
.
For
the
shame
that
one
hath
to
leue
to
confesse
hys
synne
/
cometh
of
ouer
grete
pryde
.
whyche
is
rote
of
alle
synnes
.
¶
Amd
by
cause
that
one
hath
shame
to
confesse
hys
synne
that
he
hath
doon
.
and
that
he
wold
be
holden
for
good
and
holy
ayenst
reason
.
after
these
thynges
the
preest
ought
to
here
his
confessyon
simply
after
he
ought
to
demande
of
hys
estate
yf
he
be
clerke
.
secular
or
of
relygyon
/
ordred
.
or
not
and
yf
he
haue
cure
or
benefyce
and
after
he
ought
to
demannde
hym
of
Symonye
/
for
symonye
is
propred
to
clerkes
.
and
yf
he
haue
crowne
/
tonsure
.
or
habyte
couenable
/
And
yf
he
kepe
wel
chastyte
and
contynence
.
Yf
he
be
aduocate
.
yf
he
synge
masse
/
yf
he
playe
at
tables
or
at
dyse
.
For
in
all
these
thynges
synnen
ofte
the
clerkes
.
yf
he
be
relygyous
he
ought
to
demande
of
hym
the
xij
abusyons
of
the
cloyster
.
that
is
to
wete
.
prelate
neglygent
.
dyscyple
inobedyent
yong
the
slowthful
.
aged
obstynat
in
hys
synnes
.
a
monke
folowing
the
court
of
lordes
/
A
monk
that
is
an
aduocat
.
habyte
precyous
.
metes
delycyous
.
Rumour
in
the
cloystre
.
plees
&
striues
in
the
chapytre
/
dyssolucyon
in
the
chyrche
And
in
his
herte
vnreuerent
in
thynges
that
apperteynen
to
the
aulter
.
and
to
holde
hym self
vnreuerently
at
the
aulter
.
After
he
ought
to
demaunde
hym
of
the
thre
wwes
of
relygyon
and
of
the
rule
.
That
is
to
wete
obedyence
/
pouerte
/
and
chastete
/
for
in
all
these
thinges
the
relygyouse
persones
mystake
and
trespace
ofte
/
¶
Item
he
ought
to
aske
the
princes
yf
they
kepe
wel
Justyce
/
and
ought
to
demaunde
the
knyghtes
of
rauayne
/
the
marchauntes
of
fals
marchaundises
And
yf
they
doo
marchaundise
in
the
solempne
festes
and
sondayes
.
or
in
the
chyrches
For
god
caste
and
thre
we
out
them
that
dyde
there
in
marchandyse
/
and
said
to
them
that
the
hous
of
god
is
the
hous
of
prayer
/
and
they
made
of
it
a
caue
or
a
spelunke
of
thenes
by
cause
they
bonght
&
sold
ther
in
/
Item
they
ought
to
demande
them
that
haue
offyees
of
lordes
yf
they
doo
ony
extorcion
to
the
poure
peple
.
Item
to
aske
crafty
men
of
deceyte
&
for
swering
.
Item
burgeses
and
cytezeyns
of
vsure
.
the
labourers
&
semauntes
of
werkes
of
thefte
&
specyally
Exam
of
tythes
.
of
rentes
.
&
of
trnages
.
Example
/
It
is
redde
that
a
marchaunt
coufessyd
hym
on
a
tyme
at
pans
.
to
a
good
cofessour
&
īterrogour
/
&
he
demanded
him
how
he
gouerned
hys
marchandyse
/
Syre
sayd
he
the
most
truly
that
I
may
.
but
I
can
gete
no
good
to
nourisshe
me
my
chyldren
&
myn
houshold
after
myn
estate
:
and
am
all
way
in
d●tte
/
The
preste
asked
hym
to
whom
owe
ye
/
Syre
said
he
.
I
haue
a
brother
whyche
is
abbot
of
an
abbay
&
whan
I
haue
nede
of
a
somne
of
money
he
leneth
it
to
me
/
Aud
wyth
grete
payne
can
I
gete
ony
thig
and
I
am
no
player
ne
gormaunt
.
and
my
wyf
spareth
alle
that
she
may
/
but
I
can
not
wete
where
it
becometh
.
wherof
I
am
moche
soroufull
.
The
preste
sayd
to
hym
wenest
thou
to
be
riche
of
the
goodes
of
the
chyrche
wherin
thou
hast
noo
thing
And
parauenture
th
abbot
whyche
hath
delyuered
them
to
the
hath
robbed
them
of
hys
monkes
/
and
suffred
hys
houses
to
falle
doun
or
hath
euyl
gouerned
hys
possessions
.
Goo
and
paye
hym
agayn
as
hastely
as
thou
mayst
.
and
borowe
of
somme
other
temporal
man
/
and
atte
ende
of
the
yere
/
come
agayn
to
me
/
and
telle
to
me
of
thyn
estate
.
The
marchaunt
byleued
his
confessour
and
payed
th
abbot
.
and
borowed
of
other
men
of
the
world
and
atte
ende
of
the
yere
he
retorned
to
hys
confessour
.
the
whyche
demanded
hym
of
hys
estate
&
he
ansuerd
to
hym
Syre
sayd
he
.
by
the
grace
of
god
and
your
good
counseyll
I
haue
more
prouffyted
in
thys
yere
/
than
I
dyde
in
x
yere
afore
.
Goo
thenne
sayd
the
confessour
&
gouerne
the
wysely
of
thyn
owen
.
and
nothyng
of
the
goodes
of
the
chyrche
/
for
therin
thou
shalt
nothyng
prouffyte
/
After
the
confessyon
the
confessour
ought
to
gyue
penance
.
by
that
whyche
is
contrarie
to
the
synnes
/
that
is
to
wyte
humylite
and
prayer
ayenst
pryde
.
fastyng
and
afflyction
ayenst
lecherye
.
Abstynence
ayenst
glotonnye
/
almesse
ayenst
auaryce
/
and
soo
of
alle
other
by
the
contrarye
of
the
synnes
.
and
he
ought
to
warne
and
admonest
the
synner
to
leue
the
synne
of
dede
and
of
wyll
and
that
he
putte
him self
to
doo
well
and
to
penauuce
.
For
of
the
good
dedes
that
he
shalle
doo
in
thys
world
.
he
shal
haue
merite
in
that
other
/
but
of
the
peynes
that
he
shal
suffre
in
that
other
.
he
shal
haue
to
merite
¶
For
he
suffreth
them
not
by
hys
wyll
:
but
by
constraynt
.
yf
the
synne
be
derke
he
ought
to
gyue
derke
penaunce
/
¶
Saint
Cypryan
speketh
of
penaunce
and
sayth
¶
O
penaunce
I
shal
saye
saith
he
that
I
knowe
of
the
/
thou
vnbyndest
all
thiges
bounden
.
and
thou
byndest
alle
thynges
vnbounden
.
thou
mode
rest
alle
aduersytees
.
thou
guarysshest
alle
sekenesses
.
And
alle
thynges
foule
.
thou
makest
fayre
and
clere
/
¶
Theym
that
ben
desperate
by
theyr
synne
and
feble
/
thou
reenfordest
and
makest
stronge
.
¶
The
preste
onght
to
moeue
the
synnar
to
contricyon
and
saye
to
hym
that
whyche
the
doctour
sayth
.
For
he
myght
haue
suche
contrycyon
/
that
not
onely
the
culpe
or
synne
shal
be
forgyuen
But
alle
that
he
shold
suffre
in
purgatorye
for
hys
synnes
shold
be
pardonned
:
and
he
shold
goo
strayt
to
heuen
after
hys
deth
.
as
it
apperith
by
the
good
theef
that
was
crucyfyed
wyth
our
lord
¶
For
by
cause
he
had
very
contrycyon
at
hys
deth
.
god
sayd
to
hym
/
Thou
shalt
be
thys
day
wyth
me
in
paradys
.
At
the
ende
of
the
absolucyon
the
confessour
ought
to
saye
to
the
penytent
coufessed
that
whyche
our
lord
sayd
to
them
that
he
assoylled
.
goo
forth
and
synne
nomore
/
to
th
ende
that
no
gretter
harme
happe
to
the.
The
confessour
ought
to
take
good
hede
that
for
ony
thyng
that
the
synuar
sayth
to
him
in
confessyon
he
despyse
ne
rebuke
hym
not
.
but
conforte
hym
the
beste
wyse
that
he
maye
and
promyse
to
hym
pardon
and
grace
of
our
lord
yf
he
be
veryly
confessyd
and
repentaunt
of
his
synnes
for
ther
be
some
so
rude
&
so
euyl
traytable
to
them
that
confesse
them
that
they
put
them
oftymes
in
perill
of
dampnacyon
:
Example
.
It
is
redde
in
the
lyf
of
faders
.
that
a
yong
monke
Exam
confessyd
to
an
old
one
/
&
said
to
hym
that
he
was
moche
tempted
of
the
synne
of
the
flesshe
The
old
monke
consydered
not
the
yongthe
of
that
other
:
but
repreued
hym
moche
sharply
and
sayd
to
hym
that
he
was
not
worthy
to
haue
the
name
of
a
monke
/
the
yong
monke
was
moche
abasshyd
/
&
went
out
of
the
monasteri
.
as
dispayred
.
&
mette
a
good
abbot
whiche
knewe
wel
that
he
was
greued
at
his
hert
:
&
demanded
him
swetli
what
him
ailed
/
the
yong
monk
coude
not
ansuece
for
the
grete
srowe
that
he
had
at
his
hert
/
th
abbot
said
to
him
swetely
.
fayre
sone
telle
me
what
thou
hast
.
&
he
ansuerd
to
him
.
I
retorne
agayn
to
the
world
for
to
be
maryed
/
for
suche
an
olde
monke
to
who
me
I
haue
sayd
&
confessed
my
temptacyon
of
the
flesshe
.
hath
sayd
to
me
that
I
am
not
worthy
to
haue
the
name
of
a
monke
.
by
cause
I
may
not
resyste
vnto
the
temptacyons
of
the
flesshe
The
good
abbot
conforted
hym
swetely
.
and
sayd
to
hym
.
be
nothyng
abasshyd
my
fayre
sone
.
yf
thou
that
art
yong
be
tempted
of
the
flesshe
/
For
I
that
am
olde
am
tempted
alle
day
.
I
pray
the
retorne
to
the
monasterie
tyl
to
morne
.
The
good
abbot
went
anon
to
that
old
monke
that
had
so
dysconforted
the
yong
monke
.
And
whan
he
approched
hym
he
prayed
our
lorde
that
the
temptacyon
of
the
yong
monke
myght
come
vpon
the
olde
monke
that
had
so
blamed
hym
to
th
ende
that
he
myghte
knowe
by
hym self
in
hys
olde
age
the
payne
and
sorowe
that
the
yong
monke
suffred
in
hys
yongthe
.
and
whan
he
had
made
hys
prayer
/
he
sawe
the
deuyl
castyng
th
embracementes
of
the
flesshe
on
the
olde
monke
/
and
fonde
hym
in
a
rage
rennyng
here
and
there
.
and
wolde
retorne
to
the
world
lyke
to
the
yong
monke
:
whan
th
abbot
sawe
hym
soo
demene
hym self
/
he
knewe
wel
that
he
was
totmented
and
sayd
to
hym
:
whyther
wilt
thou
goo
.
that
art
olde
and
wasted
.
he
was
all
ashamed
and
sawe
wel
that
th
abbot
knewe
hys
temptacyon
.
&
coude
not
ansuere
for
shame
by
cause
of
hys
age
The
Abbot
sayd
to
him
retorne
in
to
thy
telle
/
and
consydere
the
payne
that
the
yonge
monke
suffreth
/
whan
thou
whyche
art
so
euyl
disposed
for
the
temptacyon
thut
thou
suffrest
in
thyn
old
age
but
the
espace
of
one
day
onely
.
And
therfore
hath
our
lord
suffred
and
preued
in
the
the
payne
of
the
yong
monke
whome
thou
hast
not
●●n
forted
ne
hast
had
noo
compassyon
of
hys
yongthe
.
but
hast
put
hym
in
the
way
of
desperacyon
/
Thys
example
techeth
and
enseygneth
vs
that
the
synnar
ought
to
be
traytted
swetely
/
and
nothyng
to
be
dysconforted
¶
Howe
one
ought
to
confesse
hym self
/
●Ca
lxx●ij
YF
thou
wylt
well
confesse
thy self
.
thow
oughtest
fyrste
wel
thynke
in
thy
▪
conscyence
as
he
that
wyl
yelde
.
and
rendre
a
rekenyng
to
god
Thou
oughtest
to
saye
all
thy
synnes
that
thou
canst
remembre
/
that
thou
hast
doon
&
woldest
gladly
haue
doon
/
and
all
thy
thoughtes
whyche
tornen
to
synne
/
And
beware
that
thou
reteygne
nothyng
ne
the
colour
ne
the
sauour
of
thy
synnes
/
how
wel
th●u
confessest
them
and
repen
ty●●
▪
for
he
that
reteyneth
the
colour
of
hys
synnes
.
thaugh
he
hath
confessyd
them
and
repented
/
neuertheles
he
reteyneth
the
euyll
maners
that
he
had
to fore
.
as
in
spekyng
▪
in
beholdyng
in
folowyng
ylle
compaynyes
/
and
th
occasions
by
whyche
one
myght
falle
in
synne
▪
he
reteyneth
the
sauour
of
synne
that
well
confessyd
hym
and
is
repentaunt
.
but
gladly
he
hereth
to
speke
the●●f
.
and
ofte
thynketh
on
hys
synnes
&
hath
a
delyte
in
hys
euyl
thought
and
playseth
hym
wel
.
how
wel
he
wyl
not
doo
them
.
Aboue
alle
thing
beware
that
thou
leue
not
to
saye
to
thy
wetynge
somme
dedely
synne
of
whyche
thou
remembrest
for
to
saye
to
another
preste
/
or
for
shame
.
for
thy
confessyon
is
nothyng
worth
thenne
.
and
yf
thou
be
houseled
in
suche
estate
thou
synnest
dedely
.
and
yf
thou
sholdest
so
deye
thou
sholdest
be
dampned
perpetuelly
.
for
one
ought
to
saye
alle
hys
synnes
of
whiche
he
remembreth
to
one
preste
▪
&
not
to
saye
one
parte
to
one
and
another
parte
to
an
other
.
for
suche
confessyon
is
nothynge
worth
But
whan
thou
art
wel
confessyd
to
thy
power
▪
yf
thou
be
aduysed
after
ony
synne
.
of
whyche
thou
were
not
remembryd
whan
thou
were
confessyd
to fore
.
yf
thou
thenne
confesse
that
to
an
other
it
shal
auaylle
the.
And
thy
confessyon
is
not
departed
/
And
excuse
not
thy self
in
confessyng
the
as
som
doo
And
saye
not
also
that
thy
synne
is
gretter
than
it
is
/
for
then
ne
thou
sholdestlye
.
Many
confesse
them
in
grete
and
sayen
.
I
confesse
me
of
the
synne
of
pryde
.
of
enuye
of
leche●e
▪
and
also
in
other
wythout
to
declare
theyr
synnes
.
That
confessyon
suffyseth
not
.
but
it
behoueth
to
thy
power
thou
saye
&
declare
wel
all
thy
sinnes
pureli
in
the
manere
lyke
as
thou
hast
doon
them
and
as
ofte
as
thou
hast
sinned
yf
thou
can
remembre
:
It
suffiseth
not
to
saye
I
haue
taken
other
memys
thynges
/
but
it
by
houeth
that
thou
saye
what
&
how
moche
/
and
in
what
place
For
it
is
a
greter
synne
to
take
thyng
sacred
than
other
.
&
to
take
out
of
an
holi
place
than
out
of
an
other
▪
It
suffyseth
not
oneli
to
saye
I
haue
synned
in
the
synne
of
lecherie
/
but
it
muste
be
sayd
thestate
of
the
persone
.
that
is
to
were
yf
it
be
a
woman
maryed
or
wedowe
or
of
religyon
:
thy
moder
.
or
thy
suster
or
thy
gossph
or
goddoughter
or
symple
wymen
.
or
yf
thou
hast
●●fouled
a
virgyne
/
For
after
the
estate
of
the
psone
the
synne
is
more
grete
or
lasse
▪
yf
thou
hast
wyth
a
comyn
woman
For
that
is
a
grete
synne
&
grete
perill
▪
For
they
spare
neyther
fader
ne
so
ne
Cosyn
ne
other
.
&
thou
must
saye
how
ofte
thou
hast
synned
yf
thou
canst
remember
▪
&
in
what
place
/
yf
it
be
in
chirche
chyrche
yerd
or
in
holi
place
/
For
it
is
gretter
synne
.
in
holi
place
than
in
other
.
And
thou
oughtest
to
saye
on
what
daye
.
yf
it
be
a
f●ste
ful
day
or
day
.
conmanded
to
faste
/
For
after
the
day
the
synne
is
grete
or
lasse
or
yf
thou
hast
synned
wyth
ony
man
or
dred
to
god
/
as
subdeken
/
deken
▪
preest
or
of
religyon
but
kepe
the
wel
that
thou
name
not
the
persone
by
his
name
wyth
whome
that
▪
hast
synned
For
that
shold
be
grete
peryll
&
thou
oughtest
to
saye
yf
thou
enforcest
they
self
to
synne
:
or
yf
thou
woldest
haue
synned
▪
or
for
to
doo
thy
synne
thou
hast
made
an
other
persone
thy
messagyer
▪
or
yf
thou
hast
synned
wyth
other
whyche
had
no
wylle
to
synue
wyth
the.
For
thy
synne
shold
thenne
double
.
And
thou
sholdest
be
holden
to
admoneste
hym
or
hyr
to
come
to
repentaunce
.
Item
yf
by
thy
synne
is
comen
euyl
ensample
.
or
yf
for
cause
of
thy
counseyll
consentyng
or
ay
de
ony
other
haue
synued
.
For
eueri
tyme
thou
shalt
be
of
god
greuously
pugnysshed
.
Item
thou
oughtest
to
saye
yf
thou
hast
longe
abyden
in
thy
synne
/
and
alle
other
thynges
that
haue
●●nsed
the
to
synne
the
more
/
thou
oughtest
to
saye
and
declare
.
to
thy
power
.
For
lyke
as
á
good
physycyen
may
not
gyuen
a
good
medecyne
.
yf
he
knowe
not
well
the
maladye
right
so
the
prest
may
not
gyue
the
good
counceyl
/
yf
the
synner
declare
not
wel
the
maner
of
his
sinne
.
yf
thou
declare
not
wel
thy
synnes
the
prest
ought
to
make
the
to
declare
them
well
/
&
of
other
synnes
in
whyche
he
thynketh
that
thou
myghtest
haue
fallen
/
or
that
thou
woldest
haue
doon
.
be
ought
to
aduyse
&
demande
dyscretly
without
tofore
the.
and
of
sinnes
not
commysed
he
ought
to
demande
the
couuertly
and
fro
ferre
and
he
ought
to
she
we
t●●
maner
of
thy
synnes
/
&
to
gyue
to
the
good
counceyll
and
suffysauut
remedye
/
and
in
the
ende
of
thy
confessyon
/
yf
thou
repente
the
wyth
good
h●r●e
.
and
thou
haue
●nt●ncōn
to
absteyne
the
fro
dedely
synne
.
and
to
amende
the.
and
whan
he
assoilleth
the
of
thy
synnes
it
is
right
good
that
he
saye
▪
goo
forth
and
synne
nomore
/
leste
werse
happe
to
the
▪
for
so
sayd
our
lord
to
hym
that
he
assoilled
as
the
gospel
sayth
/
whan
thou
wylt
com
to
confessyon
.
thou
oughtest
to
thynk
on
all
the
places
wher
thou
hast
be
sythe
thou
hadest
vnderstondyng
.
and
say
in
thy self
in
suche
a
thyng
.
and
in
suche
a
place
suche
:
for
thys
is
a
thyng
by
whiche
one
shal
remembre
the
better
the
synne
c●
tyme
passed
/
for
by
cause
that
many
tarye
to
confesse
them
/
they
forgete
many
of
theyr
synnes
.
but
the
deuyl
forgeteth
them
not
.
Example
:
we
Exam
rede
of
a
woman
that
was
supposed
that
she
had
be
the
best
woman
of
the
toun
wherin
she
duellyd
/
for
she
dyde
most
goode
dedes
/
It
apped
that
whan
she
was
dede
and
born
to
the
chyrche
an
holy
hermyte
was
present
whyche
sawe
a
deuyl
holding
her
ench●yned
abo●t
the
necke
wyth
a
grete
chayne
of
y●●n
/
he
prayed
to
god
that
he
wold
she
we
to
hym
wherfore
it
was
/
&
a
wys
cam
anon
to
hym
whyche
sayd
that
she
had
doon
a
dedely
synne
in
hyr
yongthe
of
whyche
she
durste
neuer
confesse
her
and
for
that
onely
she
was
dampned
perdurably
.
many
other
examples
haue
we
whiche
I
now
leue
for
cause
of
briefte
/
vnderstonde
wel
thys
toke
fro
the
brgynnyng
vnto
the
ende
.
&
veryly
thou
shalt
fide
the
by
wrapped
in
many
synnes
of
whyche
thou
aduysest
not
thy self
.
&
therfore
aduyse
the
&
confesse
the
the
beste
wyse
thou
maiste
.
for
whan
thou
art
best
aduysed
I
counseill
the
to
be
confessyd
pure
&
clene
and
thou
shal
fynd
thy self
the
better
byloued
of
god
/
and
saye
in
th
ende
of
thy
confessyon
.
that
god
hath
deliuered
the
oftymes
fro
many
grete
perils
by
confession
&
penaunce
/
but
by
vnkendenes
I
haue
agayn
oftimes
angred
him
by
dyuerse
synnes
of
whyche
I
am
not
wel
remembred
of
whyche
and
of
all
them
that
I
haue
said
&
confessid
I
repente
me
&
purpose
and
thynke
to
absteyne
wyth
all
my
power
from
now
forthon
&
amende
me
.
&
requyre
absolucion
of
god
.
and
of
Exam
you
penaunce
.
Example
we
rede
that
a
grete
maistre
in
dyuynyte
and
a
right
good
clerke
&
prechour
whan
he
shold
deye
he
saw
the
deuyl
in
a
corner
of
hys
chambre
&
he
damanded
of
him
what
thyng
greued
him
moste
.
the
deuyl
sayd
to
hym
that
nothyng
g●●ued
hym
more
ne
lessed
more
theyr
strongthe
&
might
than
dide
confession
&
said
to
him
that
whan
a
persone
is
in
dedely
synne
all
his
membres
be
so
bounden
that
he
may
doo
no
good
werkes
for
hys
saluacyon
/
but
assone
as
he
is
confessed
.
he
is
deliuered
fro
the
grinne
of
the
deuyl
&
may
doo
all
goode
werkes
for
his
saluacyon
.
¶
How
one
ought
to
make
amendes
to
other
and
make
satisfaction
Capitulo
lxxxiij
THe
thyrde
parte
of
penaunce
is
satisfaction
whyche
ought
to
be
doon
by
thys
maner
:
yf
thou
hast
mystaken
thy self
ayenst
ony
other
amende
it
assone
as
thou
mayst
.
yf
thou
hast
deffamed
another
.
repele
it
&
gaynsaye
that
deffame
to
thy
power
&
crye
hym
mercy
.
yf
he
knowe
it
.
&
make
to
him
amendes
.
yf
thou
hast
hurte
&
don
domage
to
ony
other
wythout
good
cause
.
thou
oughtest
to
rendre
to
him
his
scathe
&
hurte
assone
as
thou
maist
.
for
yf
thou
maye
&
doo
not
.
thou
art
all
way
in
synneand
maist
not
be
assoilled
&
yf
he
be
deed
yelde
it
to
his
heires
/
or
doo
by
the
counseil
of
a
good
confessour
&
knowe
vereli
if
thou
maist
not
fynde
hym
ne
hys
heyres
and
thou
gyue
it
for
goodes
sake
or
puttest
it
in
the
tronke
in
the
chyrche
of
thyn
owne
auctorite
thou
art
not
so
quyte
.
For
thou
oughtest
not
to
doo
almesse
of
other
mennes
good
but
yf
it
be
thyng
of
lytil
valewe
.
yf
thou
see
that
thou
mayst
not
restore
to
them
that
thou
art
holden
.
or
thou
haue
not
wherof
or
thou
can
not
fynde
them
thou
oughtest
to
haue
grete
sorowe
in
thy
herte
and
good
wyll
to
restore
assone
as
thou
mayst
.
and
yf
thou
see
that
thou
shalt
neuer
haue
to
restore
.
thenne
saye
som
prayers
.
or
doo
som
good
and
som
penaunces
for
them
that
thou
art
holden
as
moche
as
shal
suffyse
.
and
so
shalt
thou
make
restytucyon
after
thy
power
.
&
yf
thou
finde
them
&
yf
they
knowe
that
thou
art
so
bounden
to
them
.
thenne
crie
them
mercy
.
&
praye
them
for
the
loue
of
our
lord
that
they
wyl
pardone
&
forgyue
the
/
Item
it
is
satisfaccyon
to
doo
and
a
complysshe
that
whiche
the
preste
enioyneth
the
in
penaunce
the
whyche
thyng
thou
oughtest
to
doo
assone
as
thou
mayst
to
thy
power
.
or
ellis
thou
sholdest
synne
moche
greuoussly
.
&
knowe
thou
.
that
thou
mayst
not
chaunge
it
.
but
yf
thou
mayst
n●t
doo
it
late
it
be
chaunged
by
the
prest
that
charged
&
gaaf
it
to
the
or
by
another
that
hath
power
.
&
yf
thou
forgete
it
thou
oughtest
to
be
confessyd
therof
and
take
newe
penaunce
.
The
preste
ought
not
to
gyue
the
in
penaunce
.
to
doo
som
masses
ne
to
offre
at
pardons
yf
thou
mayst
doo
penaunce
wyth
thy
body
For
who
that
hath
doon
the
synne
he
ought
to
bere
the
penaunce
/
But
wyth
that
it
is
good
to
doo
almesse
/
&
to
offre
atte
pardons
they
that
may
.
yf
thou
be
seke
and
in
peril
of
deth
.
and
thou
be
very
repentaunt
/
euery
preste
may
assoylle
the
of
alle
thy
synnes
.
what
someuer
they
be
.
and
also
of
all
sentences
of
excōmynycacō●s
.
yf
thou
requyre
it
for
if
thou
muste
deye
.
and
were
in
the
sentence
&
be
knewe
it
&
houseled
the
in
that
estate
.
he
shold
synne
ouer
greuously
/
&
therfor
he
ought
first
to
assoille
the.
for
so
saith
the
law
of
Canon
/
But
and
yf
thou
become
hole
agayn
.
thou
oughtest
to
goo
to
hym
.
that
put
the
excomycacyon
on
the
as
hastely
as
thou
mayst
for
to
doo
that
reason
requyreth
/
or
ellis
thou
sholdest
fall
agayn
in
the
sentence
as
thou
were
tofore
/
Item
if
thou
haue
no
prest
for
to
confesse
the
and
thou
be
very
repentaunt
of
all
thy
synnes
.
and
woldest
gladly
confesse
the
and
be
houseled
yf
thou
haddest
a
prest
/
yf
thou
deydest
in
suche
estate
it
suffyseth
to
our
lord
and
art
out
of
dampnacyon
perdurable
¶
Of
the
fyre
of
purgatorye
Capitulo
lxxxiiij
Thow
oughtest
moche
to
enforce
the
to
doo
in
thys
world
penaunce
for
thy
synne
.
and
to
haue
grete
repentannce
&
sorowe
at
thy
herte
/
&
oughtest
to
doo
good
werkes
.
&
suffre
pacyently
the
euyllys
and
tubulacōus
of
thys
world
lyke
as
to
for
is
said
.
for
that
whyche
is
not
ful
doon
in
thys
world
.
muste
be
doon
in
the
fyre
of
purgatory
.
the
whyche
is
so
ardaunt
&
brennyng
that
all
the
paynes
and
tormentes
of
thys
world
be
but
a
dew
or
a
bayne
to
the
regard
of
that
fyre
.
O
good
lorde
how
hard
and
wythout
pite
ben
the
frendes
of
them
that
be
ther
whan
they
helpe
them
not
to
delyuere
them
to
theyr
power
/
the
whyche
frendes
requyre
so
pye●ously
by
the
wys
of
holy
chirch
and
sayen
.
Miseremini
mei
/
miseremini
mei
/
that
is
to
saye
haue
ye
pyte
of
me
.
haue
ye
pyte
on
me
my
frendes
.
for
I
am
in
the
honde
of
the
rightful
Justyce
/
Ther
be
som
euyl
dysposed
/
people
that
saye
.
that
masses
/
oblacyons
.
ne
suffrages
that
ben
doon
for
them
that
be
deed
:
prouffyten
nothyng
to
them
.
and
that
they
of
the
chyrche
haue
founden
this
for
to
haue
money
of
the
good
peple
/
Example
.
It
is
red
in
the
booke
of
frere
petre
of
Clugny
that
a
bysshop
suspended
a
prest
of
hys
offyce
.
bycause
he
sange
alle
way
masse
for
the
deed
/
It
happed
on
a
day
of
a
grete
●este
the
bysshop
wente
to
matynes
.
and
passed
thurth
the
chyrcheyerd
/
hym
semed
that
alle
the
deed
bodyes
that
there
we●
buried
aroos
out
of
their
sepultures
euerich
in
suche
estate
as
they
had
ben
in
thys
world
.
that
is
to
wete
the
knyghtes
in
theyr
estate
of
armes
.
they
of
crafte
also
in
theyr
estate
of
crafty
men
.
and
sayden
that
one
to
that
other
.
loo
see
here
cometh
the
bysshop
whyche
hath
taken
away
our
prest
that
sange
for
vs
and
he
wil
not
synge
for
vs
.
veryly
yf
he
wyl
not
amende
him
he
shold
deye
of
an
euyl
deth
the
bysshop
had
grete
drede
.
and
assoylled
the
prest
/
and
after
he
hym self
sange
for
the
deede
.
Saint
gregore
sayth
that
we
may
ayde
&
helpe
them
that
ben
deed
in
iiij
maneres
.
that
is
to
wete
by
fastynges
.
by
prayers
:
by
almesses
.
&
aboue
all
other
thynges
the
masse
auaylleth
them
most
/
in
whiche
is
offred
&
sacrifyed
for
them
the
precyous
body
&
blod
of
our
lord
thesu
criste
the
whyche
may
not
wel
be
preysed
how
moche
the
masse
ꝓffyteth
to
them
that
ben
dede
we
haue
sayd
it
to
for
and
also
in
the
chapytre
of
relygyous
whan
we
spake
of
seint
gregore
whyche
dyde
doo
saye
xxx
masses
for
the
monke
that
was
deed
.
Example
it
is
redde
that
in
a
bataille
was
a
man
Exam
sore
hurte
¶
And
hys
enemyes
supposed
that
he
had
be
deed
but
he
reuyued
and
com
agayn
to
hym self
&
bounde
hys
woundes
and
went
forth
hys
waye
/
he
was
founde
agayn
of
hys
enemyes
whyche
toke
hym
&
put
him
in
prison
in
yrons
.
thys
man
had
a
brother
that
was
prest
whiche
supposed
●
●
his
brother
were
deed
by
cause
he
hadde
founden
a
man
deed
ther
as
the
batayll
was
.
whiche
resembled
wel
hys
brother
.
Thys
prest
songe
euery
day
masse
for
hym
atte
honre
of
tierce
and
at
that
houre
the
gyues
and
yrons
of
hys
brother
vnbonde
and
fylle
in
pyeces
They
that
sawe
it
blamed
hym
and
demaunded
of
hym
yf
he
were
an
enchauntour
.
by
cause
that
hys
yrons
brake
euery
day
at
the
same
houre
/
he
sayd
to
them
nay
.
but
he
sayd
I
haue
a
brother
whyche
is
a
preste
and
singeth
euery
day
for
me
:
and
veryly
yf
I
had
be
deed
my
soule
had
be
delyuerd
of
the
paynes
of
purgatorye
by
the
prayers
that
my
brother
sayth
for
me
.
Example
.
Item
it
is
redde
that
a
grete
lord
went
in
to
a
contreye
for
to
defende
the
londe
of
the
chyrche
.
¶
The
legate
of
the
pope
whyche
brought
hym
forth
gaaf
indulgence
to
the
fader
of
the
lord
whych
was
deed
by
cause
that
hys
sone
faught
for
the
wele
of
the
chyrche
/
The
lord
abode
in
that
countrey
by
▪
the
space
of
xl
dayes
.
hys
fader
appered
to
hys
sone
in
grete
clerenes
.
and
thanked
hym
of
that
he
had
doon
/
for
by
hym
he
was
delyuerd
out
of
the
paynes
of
purgatorye
Now
seest
tho●
how
the
masses
the
good
dedes
.
and
the
indulgences
prouffyten
to
them
that
be
lyuyng
&
to
them
that
ben
deed
/
and
to
them
that
ben
in
purga
torye
.
¶
Of
the
paynes
of
helle
Capitulo
lxxxv
THe
dampned
soules
that
ben
in
helle
ben
dampned
for
the
synnes
that
they
haue
doon
perdurably
in
the
companye
of
the
deuylles
.
whyche
●eu
so
horrible
to
byholde
/
that
saint
austyn
sayth
that
ther
is
no
man
in
thys
world
.
but
that
he
had
leuer
to
brenne
all
quyk
/
than
to
see
the
deuyl
in
hys
fygure
.
the
deuylles
caste
doun
the
dampned
soules
so
horribly
in
to
the
grete
and
depe
swalowes
wythout
mesure
all
ful
of
water
so
cold
of
yse
&
snowe
that
ther
is
noo
thynge
lyke
to
that
coldnesse
yf
a
grete
montayne
fylle
therin
it
shold
become
yse
and
after
also
as
they
that
haue
theyr
hondes
froren
whan
they
put
them
to
the
fyre
they
doo
to
hem
moche
grete
payne
.
Also
for
to
make
them
to
fele
gret
payne
they
throwe
the
dampned
soules
fro
the
depe
abysmes
in
to
a
grete
stāgne
or
ponde
depe
wythout
mesure
all
ful
of
fyre
all
brennyng
soo
hoot
that
the
fyre
of
thys
world
nys
but
warme
to
the
regarde
of
that
fyre
.
nomore
than
a
bayne
or
a
fyre
paited
on
a
wal
is
lyke
to
the
fyre
of
this
worlde
yf
alle
the
water
of
the
see
fylle
therin
.
it
shal
not
be
the
lasse
heete
therfor
.
¶
Example
/
we
rede
in
vitis
patrum
that
seint
Machayre
fonde
in
a
way
the
hede
of
a
dede
man
.
he
coniured
by
the
name
of
god
that
it
shold
saye
to
hym
of
whom
it
was
And
it
sayd
I
am
the
hede
of
a
preste
of
the
paynems
.
&
wold
neuer
byleue
in
the
fayth
of
ihesu
crist
.
Saynt
macharye
demāmanded
of
hym
where
art
thou
.
I
am
in
helle
said
he
.
what
payne
〈…〉
thou
/
I
ansuere
the
that
the
fyre
vpon
●●y
hede
is
as
moche
as
is
fro
hens
to
heuen
/
and
as
moche
vnder
.
and
as
moche
on
alle
sydes
of
me
.
And
vnder
me
ben
the
iewes
why
the
neuer
wold
byleue
in
●hesu
crist
/
And
vnder
the
iewes
ben
the
euyl
cristen
men
whyche
haue
byleued
in
the
fayth
of
ihesu
crist
wyth
theyr
mouth
/
but
they
haue
not
doon
the
werkes
&
whan
it
sayd
alle
thys
it
fyll
alle
to
pouldre
/
Item
they
that
be
dampned
haue
so
grete
stenche
.
that
no
mortal
man
may
suffre
it
/
they
haue
gret
drede
.
horrour
/
and
derkenes
palpable
.
they
haue
grete
ferpentes
whyche
lyuen
in
fyre
lyke
as
●ysshes
doon
in
the
water
/
dragons
horrible
that
deuoure
them
.
thondre
and
tempestes
whiche
falle
on
them
.
hamers
that
all
way
smite
on
them
as
vpon
an
andlvylde
wythout
ceassyng
or
leuyng
.
deuyl
his
whyche
wyth
glayues
and
speres
perce
/
he
we
.
&
detrenche
them
.
they
haue
grete
wormes
&
grete
●oodes
whiche
on
them
gnawe
and
many
other
paynes
endure
the
whyche
no
man
mortal
may
ne
can
saye
/
and
of
so
moche
as
they
haue
ben
grete
synners
.
the
more
be
they
payned
and
tormented
.
But
aboue
alle
other
they
be
tormented
moste
by
cause
they
haue
lost
by
theyr
deffaulte
the
Joye
of
heuen
:
And
also
that
they
haue
none
hope
to
haue
euer
ony
reste
of
euyllys
that
they
suffre
.
Example
Exam
¶
It
is
redde
that
an
holy
man
sawe
in
vysyon
the
soule
of
a
man
to
be
ledde
in
to
helle
:
whyche
had
ben
in
grete
estate
in
the
world
.
¶
And
had
moche
delyte
in
the
playsaunce
of
the
world
/
¶
And
whan
the
maystre
deuyl
saw
hym
he
aros
out
of
hys
chayr
and
cam
ayenst
hym
and
sayd
.
Sytte
thou
in
this
chayr
for
the
honour
that
thou
hast
had
in
thys
world
/
the
chayre
was
of
alle
brennyng
fyre
.
¶
Whan
he
was
sette
ther
was
brought
to
hym
ryght
bytter
drunkes
and
stynkyng
/
And
by
force
made
hym
to
drynke
hyt
sayeng
/
drynke
in
stede
of
goode
wyn
whyche
thou
hast
dronken
in
the
world
.
After
cam
two
deuylles
whyche
broughten
trompettes
and
shallemea●s
.
¶
And
blewe
so
moche
in
hys
eerys
that
the
fyre
sprange
out
of
hys
mouth
/
and
hys
eyen
.
&
out
of
alle
hys
other
conduits
Loo
sayd
they
thys
is
for
the
songes
&
instrumentes
that
thou
hast
gladly
herd
.
After
they
put
serpentes
about
his
necke
and
hys
armes
.
And
sayd
to
hym
loo
thys
is
for
the
embracynges
that
thou
hast
made
to
wymen
.
And
thus
the
caytyf
was
tormented
after
that
he
had
synned
/
in
an
vnhappy
houre
is
he
borne
that
for
so
lityl
a
while
as
he
shal
lyue
in
thys
world
.
shall
haue
so
grete
tormentes
perdurably
How
they
that
be
dampned
complayne
them
in
helle
/
cao.
.
lxxxvj
Alas
the
vnhappy
dampned
for
grete
payne
.
strayne
&
g●●nte
theyr
teeth
:
and
caste
out
grete
wepynges
complaintes
&
grete
by
waillynges
&
sayen
lyke
as
the
boke
of
sapience
gyueth
out
.
alas
what
hath
auaylleth
or
prouffyted
vs
.
our
pryde
our
vayne
glorye
.
our
rychesse
/
our
lecherye
/
our
delite
our
ease
.
our
desyre
/
and
our
euyl
wyll
that
we
had
in
the
world
.
Alas
alle
these
thynges
be
passed
as
a
shado
we
and
we
be
here
in
helle
perdurably
tormented
.
Our
vayne
ioye
and
lawhyng
is
torned
in
to
wepyng
.
our
delyte
and
our
ease
is
torned
in
to
sorowe
&
tormente
/
Alas
it
semeth
to
vs
that
our
lyf
of
the
world
hath
not
dured
but
a
lityl
.
like
as
it
were
the
flight
of
a
byrde
or
the
castyng
of
a
stone
/
Moche
were
we
blynde
and
ygnoraunt
that
for
so
lytyl
lyuyng
we
haue
lost
the
ioye
of
heuen
.
and
goten
the
tormentes
of
helle
/
¶
Alas
alas
the
caytyfs
dampned
whan
they
shal
haue
ben
in
helle
by
the
space
of
an
hondred
thousaud
yere
.
they
shal
be
yet
to
bygynne
agayn
.
For
all
way
without
ende
lyuing
they
shat
deye
.
and
in
deyng
they
shal
lyue
.
they
shal
neuer
mowe
deye
.
And
after
the
day
of
dome
the
body
shal
be
tormented
with
the
soule
and
for
one
payne
that
they
suffre
now
they
shal
thenne
haue
an
hondred
.
for
so
saith
the
holy
scripture
Why
god
made
not
man
that
he
myght
not
synne
.
cao.
lxxxvij
Moche
peple
demanden
wherfor
god
made
not
a
man
that
he
myght
not
synne
/
for
yf
he
synned
not
/
&
were
a
good
crysten
man
.
by
the
merite
of
the
passyon
of
our
lord
ihesu
criste
and
the
holy
baptesme
he
shold
be
sauued
/
and
shold
not
●●nne
in
to
the
paynes
forsayd
.
the
doctours
of
holy
chyrche
and
the
maistres
of
dyuynyte
put
forth
here
many
reasons
The
first
is
for
to
shewe
the
myght
and
puyssaunce
of
god
whyche
is
alle
onely
vnmeuable
/
and
alle
creatures
ben
meuable
.
as
it
appyereth
of
th
aungellys
whyche
god
created
and
made
them
good
whyche
for
theyr
euyl
and
synne
bycome
deuylles
Item
for
to
shewe
and
declare
the
sapyence
and
wysedom
of
god
/
whyche
is
suche
for
he
can
chese
the
good
fro
the
euyl
.
the
which
thing
may
not
be
but
yf
he
had
made
the
creature
that
he
myght
chaunge
fro
good
in
to
euyll
Item
for
to
magnyfeste
the
pyte
of
god
by
the
whyche
and
by
hys
passyon
he
hath
saued
man
whyche
was
dampned
by
synne
Item
for
to
shewe
the
iustyce
of
god
by
the
whyche
he
wyl
rewarde
to
the
good
merite
and
mede
:
And
to
the
euyl
peyne
for
theyr
sher●wdnes
&
synne
.
Item
by
cause
that
man
shold
not
be
of
werse
condycyon
than
the
other
creatures
to
whom
god
hath
admynystred
in
suche
wyse
that
he
hath
suffred
them
to
ioye
theyr
propre
moeuyng
and
the
wyll
.
And
●f
man
had
not
free
lyterte
to
doo
good
or
euyll
.
whyche
that
playseth
hym
.
he
shold
not
be
soo
free
.
as
the
other
creatures
.
Item
for
to
haue
preysyng
humayne
/
for
it
is
a
grete
preysyng
to
a
man
that
he
may
doo
wel
.
whan
he
hath
doon
euyll
.
Item
the
good
be
enhaunced
by
the
euyl
.
and
whan
is
seen
in
a
companye
of
peple
a
good
man
.
thenne
is
ther
doon
to
hym
gladly
gret
honour
&
more
than
to
another
that
is
werse
than
he
¶
Of
the
day
of
dome
or
of
Jugement
.
Cao.
lxxxviij
▪
The
last
day
of
iugement
shal
be
in
the
valey
of
iosaphat
.
the
whiche
is
bytwen
Jherusalem
and
the
mount
of
olyuete
For
it
is
nyght
the
place
where
our
lord
ihesu
criste
dyde
the
werkes
of
hys
passyon
for
our
redempcyon
.
There
shal
come
our
lord
ihesu
crist
wyth
all
hys
holy
angellys
and
alle
the
sayntes
for
to
Judge
alle
the
world
.
Thenne
alle
maner
of
peple
shal
arise
agayn
alle
hool
wythout
lackyng
of
one
heer
of
hys
hede
and
all
lyuyng
in
body
and
in
sowle
in
suche
age
as
our
lorde
was
whan
he
was
crucyfied
.
that
it
to
wete
in
the
age
of
xxxij
yere
and
thre
monethes
.
And
youg
and
olde
chyldren
shal
alle
com
to
the
dome
and
iugement
/
thenne
our
lord
shal
be
moche
angry
ayenst
the
synnars
aforesayd
:
There
shal
be
the
crosse
on
whyche
he
was
put
and
crucyfyed
/
the
crownes
of
thornes
.
the
pyler
.
the
soorges
.
the
naylles
and
the
spere
.
whyche
the
angellys
shal
holde
/
Thenne
our
lord
shal
shewe
to
the
synners
hys
woundes
.
the
whyche
shal
appere
in
hys
hondes
in
hys
feet
/
and
in
his
syde
/
And
as
saynt
Johan
wyth
the
golden
mouth
sayth
he
shal
saye
ye
euyl
cursyd
I
was
made
man
for
you
.
And
haue
suffred
the
paynes
and
tubulacyons
that
ye
here
now
see
.
And
many
other
tormentes
for
you
.
and
fynably
deth
.
and
passyon
right
doulourous
and
payneful
:
And
for
you
had
appareylled
wyth
me
and
myn
aungellys
and
my
saynctes
Joye
and
glorye
wythout
ende
.
yf
ye
wold
haue
serued
me
truly
and
loued
and
kepte
my
comandementes
but
all
these
thynges
and
myn
other
benfaittes
ye
haue
put
in
forgetyng
and
haue
not
sette
it
at
your
herte
/
but
alle
your
entencyon
and
your
herte
.
ye
haue
sette
on
worldly
thynges
.
and
haue
accomplysshed
your
willes
and
desyres
.
On
that
other
parte
shal
be
the
deuyll
whyche
knoweth
all
the
synnes
and
vayne
glorie
:
vayne
wordes
and
ydle
/
and
hath
lost
and
wasted
so
moche
tyme
wythout
good
cause
where
as
he
myght
haue
doon
so
moche
good
that
he
sholde
haue
companye
wyth
god
/
the
deuyl
shal
leye
ayenst
hym
as
sayth
saynt
Austyn
wyhout
to
leue
ony
thyng
/
there
shal
be
brought
forth
sayth
saynt
Jherome
the
obscure
and
derke
synnes
.
whyche
haue
not
be
shewede
by
confessyon
ne
amended
by
penaunce
¶
Ther
shal
they
be
opened
and
manyfested
to
fore
alle
.
¶
And
he
that
hath
had
shame
toshewe
.
it
to
one
onely
preste
in
that
houre
he
shal
receyue
shame
and
confusion
to
fore
god
.
and
all
the
court
of
lxuē
.
and
dampnacion
perpetuell
.
Item
the
angellis
and
all
the
sayntes
wyth
our
lord
shal
be
moche
angri
.
&
shal
strongly
accuse
them
alas
alas
the
caytif
synners
.
how
marrid
/
astonyed
.
angred
.
&
a
basshed
shal
they
be
.
for
flee
ne
gaynsaye
maye
they
not
doo
.
then
ne
ourlord
by
iuste
sentence
shal
doo
caste
them
that
shal
be
dampned
bounden
hondes
and
feet
.
in
to
helle
.
&
in
to
the
pitte
of
helle
and
in
to
the
tormentis
afore
sayd
perdurably
.
and
he
shal
bringe
them
that
be
good
in
body
and
in
soule
wyth
hym
in
to
heuene
.
The
holy
scrypture
and
the
holy
canons
warnen
vs
strongly
to
thynke
ofte
in
thys
Jugement
.
And
for
to
make
vs
redy
wythout
taryeng
.
For
to
goo
worthyly
and
holily
wyth
god
and
hys
sayntes
¶
For
to
conuerte
the
synner
to
good
lyf
Capitulo
.
lxxxix
Whan
thou
art
in
dedely
synne
:
thou
art
in
all
perylles
that
thou
hast
herd
.
For
by
thy
synne
thou
hast
loste
the
loue
of
god
/
whyche
hath
so
moche
loued
the.
&
wold
bycome
man
and
deye
for
the.
Item
thou
art
pryued
fro
alle
the
goodes
of
holy
chyrche
/
For
the●n
thou
takest
nooparte
.
Item
thou
were
the
sone
of
god
.
and
thou
art
nowe
sone
and
seruaut
to
the
deuyllys
.
to
whom
thou
hast
yelden
thy self
by
thy
synne
Item
thou
that
oughtest
to
gyue
eusample
:
and
cause
to
doo
wel
to
other
/
gyuest
to
them
ensample
to
doo
euyl
Item
thou
hast
more
gret
payne
and
ennuye
for
to
doo
thy
synne
than
another
hath
to
doo
wel
and
tolede
good
lyf
.
And
veryly
of
thy
synne
.
that
in
so
lytyl
tyme
is
passed
.
thou
hast
nothyug
but
the
synne
.
and
dyffame
of
the
remenaunt
.
Item
thou
that
were
a
cytezeyn
.
and
he
ryter
of
the
cyte
of
heuen
.
brother
and
felaw
of
the
glorious
virgyne
marye
and
of
alle
the
sayntes
of
heuen
.
thou
art
priued
for
thy
synne
/
and
art
made
a
brennyng
b●onde
in
the
fyre
of
helle
¶
A
caytyf
synner
doo
shame
to
the
deuyl
whyche
thus
hath
taken
the
/
¶
And
conuerte
thy self
to
our
lord
wythout
more
abydyng
:
¶
For
by
long
taryeng
ben
many
lost
and
dampned
.
and
saye
not
I
shal
amende
me
tyme
ynowh
as
other
doo
/
for
thou
knowest
wel
.
we
haue
not
leyzer
tabide
tyl
to
morn
and
oftimes
assone
deyeth
the
yong
as
the
old
.
and
we
see
comunely
that
ther
is
none
so
fayre
a
vysa
gene
face
/
But
that
a
lytyl
feure
or
maladye
in
a
short
tyme
bungeth
it
to
deth
.
&
lytyl
thynke
we
on
it
/
Now
thenne
thynke
and
confesse
the
and
do●
penaunce
and
lede
a
good
lyf
with
al
thy
power
.
For
yf
thou
so
doo
thou
reioysest
the
angellys
.
&
recouuerst
the
loue
of
god
and
the
lif
perdntable
in
the
ioie
of
heuen
of
the
whiche
thou
shalt
here
speke
here
folowyng
¶
Of
the
ioyes
of
heuen
Capitulo
lxxxx
O
glorious
wyalme
of
heuen
.
where
is
had
alle
ioye
.
alle
glorie
alle
good
.
and
alle
blessydnes
.
and
alle
thyng
that
herte
wyll
desyre
wythout
ony
defaulte
.
the
angellis
and
the
sayntes
in
seeyng
god
face
to
face
in
hys
beaulte
.
in
hys
mageste
and
in
hys
glorious
company
haue
in
hym
so
grete
delyte
that
they
may
not
therin
be
fulfylled
.
but
they
haue
all
way
Joye
wytout
ende
/
honour
and
glorye
so
grete
that
all
the
delyces
of
alle
the
toyes
of
thys
world
ben
but
sorowes
and
anguysshes
to
the
regarde
of
that
glorie
.
O
soule
sayth
saynt
austyn
thou
oughtest
to
flee
thys
mortal
lyf
.
and
take
that
whyche
is
lyf
wytout
deth
whyche
is
yongthe
wythout
age
.
lyght
wythout
derkenesse
/
Joye
wythout
heuynes
.
pees
wythout
ende
&
wythout
disoorde
.
wylle
wythout
wrong
.
royalme
wythout
chaungyng
in
whyche
is
the
guerdon
that
they
shal
haue
that
haue
done
wel
and
it
is
so
grete
that
it
may
not
be
mesured
.
&
so
precyous
that
it
may
not
be
estemed
.
yet
sayth
saynt
austyn
/
O
lyf
gyuyng
lyf
whyche
all
way
oughtest
to
be
in
remembraunce
.
in
the
whyche
is
all
surete
:
and
souerayn
haboundaunce
wel
assuerd
.
Joyouse
blyssydnes
.
affluence
of
rychesse
/
Influence
of
delyces
.
&
habondaunce
of
all
goodes
.
saint
thomas
of
alquyn
sayth
that
the
ioyes
of
heuen
be
suche
&
so
grete
that
all
&
the
maystres
in
geometrie
maye
not
mesure
them
.
All
they
of
ar●memet●ke
may
not
rekene
them
.
all
gramariens
all
rethoricyens
/
&
the
may
stres
of
alle
scyences
may
not
by
wordes
saye
ne
declare
them
/
many
wondres
&
meruaylles
may
be
said
but
who
that
wold
saye
what
ther
is
.
it
shold
conteyne
ouer
grete
scripture
.
&
therfore
we
leue
and
passe
ouer
to
speke
therof
by
cause
of
shortnes
.
for
saynt
poul
sayth
that
eye
neuer
sawe
.
neere
neuer
herde
mouthe
can
not
expresse
.
ne
herte
thynke
the
grete
ioye
.
that
god
hath
appareylled
to
them
that
loue
hym
/
late
vs
auaunce
vs
thenne
sayth
saynt
austyn
for
to
go●
in
to
thys
grete
glorye
wyth
our
parentes
and
frendes
.
the
holy
patriarkes
&
prophetes
/
th
appostls
and
martires
/
the
confessours
and
vyrgynes
the
maried
yong
and
continent
.
whyche
now
ben
sure
of
theyr
glorie
.
but
yet
be
they
dilygent
to
serue
our
lord
/
¶
Of
good
admonycyon
and
warnyng
.
Capitulo
/
lxxxx
The
glorye
tofore
sayd
is
apparailled
of
god
to
them
that
loue
hym
and
kepe
his
comaundements
/
and
to
them
that
of
that
they
haue
&
doon
/
preyse
not
them self
ne
be
not
proude
ther
of
&
after
theyr
faculte
departen
gladly
to
the
poure
&
nedy
.
&
sette
not
theyr
herte
pryncypally
but
in
our
lord
.
and
to
them
that
the
euyllys
the
paynes
.
and
the
trybulacions
that
come
to
them
or
is
doon
to
them
.
suffren
pacyently
for
the
loue
of
god
and
for
to
haue
thys
gret
eglorie
/
Our
lord
admonesteth
vs
that
we
be
allway
redy
.
and
kepe
vs
fro
synne
.
and
that
we
put
not
our
hertes
pryucypally
in
thys
caytyf
world
.
whyche
is
nothynge
but
a
lytyl
passyng
.
ful
of
wepyng
:
of
sorowes
and
of
anguysshes
/
whyche
we
shalleue
/
&
take
uone
hede
of
the
houre
wyth
out
to
bere
ony
thyng
with
vs
/
sauf
the
good
dedes
and
the
euil
that
we
haue
doon
.
And
our
body
caytyf
shal
be
couuerd
with
the
erthe
as
a
foul
stynkyng
caroyne
.
&
wormes
shal
ete
&
wrote
therin
.
Our
lord
promyseth
not
to
vs
to
morn
.
to
th
end
that
our
herts
&
our
principal
entencyon
be
in
him
&
in
his
loue
For
we
¶
ought
to
loue
god
/
and
to
remembre
ofte
a
deuoutely
how
the
swete
ihesus
vouchedsauf
to
humble
hym self
for
vs
.
and
descende
fro
hys
glorye
of
heuen
in
to
the
wombe
of
the
glorious
vyrgyne
marie
.
and
becom
a
man
and
our
brother
/
&
suffred
deth
&
passion
for
vs
&
how
he
hath
made
vs
of
nought
.
&
semblable
to
hym
whyche
myght
haue
made
vs
yf
it
had
playsed
him
like
vnto
toodes
&
other
wormes
yf
we
knowe
wel
alle
the
grate
that
he
hath
doo
to
vs
/
&
thanke
&
gyue
hym
lawde
therfor
that
is
the
thynge
aboue
all
other
/
by
whyche
we
may
most
&
most
lightly
haue
his
loue
&
hys
grace
moche
playsed
it
to
god
whan
one
knowlechith
the
graces
&
the
benefaittes
that
he
hath
doon
&
whan
he
is
remercyed
.
&
thanked
therfor
/
Example
:
we
rede
that
the
grete
chauntre
of
paris
.
fonde
on
a
time
in
a
felde
a
Exam
conuerse
that
is
to
saie
a
brother
&
noo
preste
of
the
ordre
of
aste
aulx
kepyng
sheep
whiche
was
moche
comtemplatif
&
deuout
toward
god
&
wepte
ofte
in
byholdyng
a
crapauld
or
toode
the
chauntre
demaunded
hym
wherfor
he
wepte
he
ansuerd
to
him
sayeng
I
ought
wel
to
wepe
for
my
sinnes
/
&
gyue
thankynges
to
god
whiche
hath
made
me
to
hys
semblaunce
/
for
yf
it
had
plaised
him
he
had
wel
made
me
like
vnto
this
crapauld
or
to
ode
.
Thus
thys
good
man
thanked
and
remercyed
god
:
thenne
late
vs
rendre
and
gyue
graces
and
thankynges
to
our
lord
of
all
hys
benefaittes
&
late
vs
enioye
in
hym
.
&
synge
we
in
our
hertes
wyth
grete
ioye
for
we
ben
the
sones
and
the
doughters
of
god
made
and
formed
to
hys
semblaunce
.
bretheren
and
sustres
of
ihesu
crist
/
and
bought
and
redemed
wyth
his
precious
blood
/
Fedde
wyth
hys
precyous
body
/
Felawes
to
angellis
of
heuen
/
herityers
but
yf
it
be
long
on
vs
for
euermore
with
out
ende
of
the
gloryous
royalme
of
heuen
.
to
whyche
brynge
vs
the
swete
and
debonayre
Jhesu
crist
Amen
¶
Th
excasacyon
of
hym
that
made
thys
booke
.
Cao.
/
lxxxxij
This
boke
was
first
made
in
the
yere
of
our
lord
.
M.
ccc
.
lxxxviij
.
by
the
reuered
fader
in
god
.
my
lord
Guy
de
roy
Achybysshop
of
sens
:
But
the
yere
after
folowyng
.
a
religyo●
brother
of
th
ordre
of
clugny
behelde
&
redde
ouer
thys
boke
right
diligently
and
fonde
that
it
was
right
shorte
after
the
matere
and
he
put
therto
many
examples
and
dyuerse
auctorites
.
chapytres
of
doctours
and
maystres
auctorised
how
be
it
that
it
is
moche
shortly
sayd
and
made
.
for
the
world
is
at
thys
time
so
lytyl
deuoute
that
it
demaundeth
but
shortenes
and
briefte
/
&
in
specyal
in
the
seruyce
of
our
lord
and
in
thyuges
that
apperteynen
Exam
to
the
saluacyon
of
the
sowle
/
for
comunely
is
desyred
a
short
masse
/
but
they
wyl
haue
a
long
table
.
Example
.
It
is
redde
that
at
troyes
in
champayne
in
the
h●us
of
guye
freres
or
cordelyers
was
a
knyght
that
fonde
a
frere
that
wold
saye
masse
.
to
whome
he
sayd
/
Frere
I
praye
the
that
I
may
haue
a
masse
of
a
knyght
.
The
frere
whyche
was
a
good
clerke
&
a
deuoute
man
and
that
sawe
wel
hys
entente
ansuerd
to
hym
ye
shal
not
syre
/
but
ye
shal
haue
a
masse
of
a
kyng
.
The
frere
said
his
masse
at
his
ease
.
&
nothing
after
the
wyl
of
the
knyght
many
prestes
ben
ther
now
in
these
dayes
in
the
world
.
that
entende
more
to
doo
the
playsir
of
the
world
than
to
the
saluacyon
of
them self
.
the
religious
man
afore
sayd
excuseth
him
in
this
maner
.
yf
in
this
boke
I
haue
ony
thing
sayd
wel
.
god
be
thanked
&
preised
therof
&
I
haue
in
ony
thing
faylled
.
yf
I
praie
the
redars
&
herars
to
pardonne
me
.
for
I
haue
doon
it
ygnorauntly
.
&
merueill
ye
nothyng
though
out
of
so
poure
erthe
.
is
yssued
so
good
fruit
.
for
it
is
by
the
grace
of
god
&
of
the
holy
ghost
whiche
hath
aroused
&
watred
it
wythout
whyche
noo
good
fruyt
may
com
forth
.
Our
lord
said
to
nychodemus
prince
of
the
iewes
that
the
ghoost
inspyreth
&
gyueth
hys
grace
where
as
it
playseth
him
&
the
holy
ghost
sayth
by
the
prophete
.
opene
thy
mouth
.
&
I
shal
fille
it
with
my
grace
.
&
god
the
fader
said
to
moises
whan
he
sent
him
to
speke
to
kyng
pharao
.
thou
shalt
opene
thy
mouth
.
&
I
shal
speke
for
the
The
holy
euangelyst
sayth
that
cayphas
whiche
was
bysshop
of
the
Jewes
how
be
it
that
he
was
an
cuyl
synner
.
neuertheles
by
the
grace
of
the
holy
ghost
he
prophtcied
the
deth
of
our
lord
.
and
sayd
to
the
Jewes
.
ye
know
no
thing
I
say
to
you
/
that
it
behoueth
that
one
man
deye
for
all
the
peple
to
th
ende
that
alle
the
folke
perisshe
not
.
Thus
haue
I
sayd
nothyng
of
my self
/
but
alle
that
I
haue
sayd
.
I
haue
sayd
it
by
the
grace
of
the
holy
ghost
¶
The
complaint
of
hym
that
made
thys
boke
/
Ca
▪
lxxxxiij
ALas
all
sorowyng
I
am
as
a
mylnare
whyche
gr●ndeth
the
whete
of
whyche
other
men
lyue
.
&
whan
he
hath
grounden
he
abideth
alle
wyde
.
ne
ther
abydeth
nothyng
wyth
him
ne
retryneth
for
hym self
of
hys
mele
.
but
delyuered
it
to
the
peple
.
Certaynly
thus
is
it
of
me
.
Alas
poure
synner
I
haue
delyuerd
and
grounden
the
corne
and
the
spyrytuell
vytayll
.
of
whyche
ye
reders
and
herars
lyue
and
shal
be
fedde
spyrytuelly
&
moche
shal
prouffyte
to
you
.
yf
it
be
not
your
owne
defaulte
.
Alas
I
reteyne
lytyl
to
my
prouffyt
/
for
dertes
I
confesse
humbly
tofore
god
and
hys
gloryous
moder
and
all
the
seyntes
/
that
I
am
not
suche
as
I
admonoste
you
that
ye
shold
be
The
wordes
be
there
well
/
but
th
effecte
is
not
suche
ne
lyke
the
wordes
god
knoweth
that
I
am
woo
therfore
and
it
dysplayseth
me
.
And
I
desyre
and
coueyte
moche
that
I
may
make
my
werkes
acorde
to
my
wordes
.
¶
And
to
that
ende
I
abyde
in
the
world
and
laboure
How
be
it
that
I
doo
lasse
than
I
ought
to
doo
for
to
come
to
perfection
and
to
good
werkes
lyke
as
my
herte
desyreth
And
of
that
other
part
.
how
wel
that
I
be
good
.
Yet
haue
I
desyre
that
alle
other
be
good
/
And
I
wold
wel
that
I
were
the
werst
of
alle
them
that
ben
in
the
world
.
but
I
wold
not
enpayre
ne
be
werse
than
I
am
.
for
I
haue
no
nede
to
lese
ony
thing
.
but
I
wold
that
all
other
were
better
than
I
am
.
And
that
is
that
me
trcomforteth
/
¶
For
to
loue
and
desyre
the
good
of
other
.
is
the
begynnynge
to
come
to
perfection
/
¶
Ye
that
rede
or
here
thys
book
.
take
it
not
in
despyte
by
cause
it
hath
be
made
compyled
&
wreton
of
a
synful
man
&
that
right
lytil
knoweth
.
for
an
euil
man
fylleth
wel
his
wyne
.
how
wel
he
maketh
it
not
.
&
a
foul
masson
croked
and
lame
maketh
wel
a
fayre
hous
/
how
wel
that
he
maketh
not
the
stones
ne
the
other
matere
.
certeinly
in
like
wyse
is
it
of
me
:
I
haue
doo
noo
thynge
/
but
haue
drawen
the
wordes
of
thys
book
of
holy
scriptures
.
&
out
of
bokes
of
traytyes
of
doctours
&
of
maistres
auctorised
of
whom
the
scriptures
ben
holden
.
and
haue
ioyned
that
one
with
that
other
there
is
herein
nothyng
of
myn
but
the
payne
and
labour
that
I
haue
had
in
tornyng
ouer
of
many
bokes
.
But
I
complaine
nothyng
the
labour
that
I
haue
had
for
the
loue
of
god
.
&
of
them
that
it
shal
prouffyte
/
and
yf
ther
be
ony
that
can
fynde
ony
thing
for
to
amende
.
I
submytte
me
and
abandone
thys
boke
to
the
correccion
and
amendement
of
all
them
that
may
and
can
amende
it
.
Our
Lord
ihesu
custe
sayeth
in
the
gospel
of
the
pharisces
of
the
prestes
/
&
maistres
of
the
lawe
in
admonestyng
&
prechyng
to
other
/
&
sayth
doo
ye
that
they
saye
to
you
.
but
doo
not
that
whyche
they
doo
.
yf
a
preste
had
a
good
&
a
fayr
hous
/
&
he
despesshed
and
destroyed
it
without
cause
.
or
yf
he
had
a
fayre
vygne
ful
of
fruyt
and
wold
take
it
vp
by
the
rote
wythout
to
gadre
the
fruyt
or
grapes
.
certeinly
fewe
peple
ful
of
wysedome
wold
take
example
of
hym
.
and
wold
not
soo
doo
by
theyres
/
and
therfor
I
saye
to
you
yf
we
of
the
chyrche
saie
to
you
wel
doo
ye
ther
after
/
and
yf
ye
see
vs
doo
euyl
.
doo
ye
it
not
.
for
at
the
day
of
Jugement
noo
excusacyons
shal
be
receyued
.
But
euery
man
shal
bere
hys
owen
dede
/
for
he
that
shal
haue
doone
wel
shall
haue
Joye
glorye
and
lyf
perdurable
with
our
lord
and
his
swete
moder
the
gloryouse
vyrgyne
marye
and
all
the
sayntes
.
and
he
that
shal
haue
doon
euyl
&
repenteth
hym
not
shal
haue
payne
.
torment
/
and
dampnacyon
wyth
them
that
be
dampned
in
hell
.
and
in
the
ende
I
pray
you
that
ye
wyll
all
praye
god
for
me
.
and
that
as
long
as
god
wyl
yeue
you
space
and
power
.
that
ye
entende
to
good
werkes
&
to
doo
penaunce
.
For
ye
knowe
not
how
longe
the
tyme
shal
endure
.
and
be
that
wyl
not
whan
he
may
.
he
shall
not
whan
he
wold
.
And
god
bi
his
grace
graunte
for
to
gouuerne
vs
in
suche
wyse
and
lyue
in
thys
short
lyf
that
we
may
come
to
hys
blysse
for
to
lyue
and
regne
there
wythout
ende
in
secula
seculorum
Amen
¶
Thus
endeth
the
doctrinal
of
sapyence
the
whyche
is
ryght
vtile
and
prouffytable
to
alle
crysten
men
/
whyche
is
translated
out
of
Frenshe
in
to
englysshe
by
wyllyam
Caxton
at
westme
stter
fynysshed
the.
vij
.
day
of
may
the
yere
of
our
lord
/
M
/
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lxxx
ix
Caxton
me
fieri
fecit