¶ Narrat
LOrdyngs þer is . in Engelond I gesse
A mersschly lond called holdernesse
In which þer went a lymytour aboute
To preche and eek to begge it is no doubte
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And so bifel it . on a day þis frere
had preched at a chirch in his manere
And specially abouen euery þing
Excited he þe poepul in his preching
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To trentals and to ȝiue for goddis sake
wher that men mighten holy soules make
Ther as diuine seruys is honoured
Nought þer as it is wasted and deuoured
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Neither it needeþ not for to be ȝiue
As to possessioneres þat mow lyue
Thanked be god in wele and abundaunce
Trentals sayd he delyuereth fro penaunce
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her frendes soules as wel eld as ȝonge
Ȝe whanne þat þay hastily ben songe
Nought for to hold a prest iolif and gay [folio 109a]
he syngith not but oon masse in a day
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Delyuerith out quod he þe soules
Ful hard it is wiþ fleischhok or with oules
To ben y-clawed . or brend or I-bake
Now speed ȝow hastily for cristes sake
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And whan þis frere had sayd al his entent
with Qui cum patre . forþ he went
whan folk in chirch had ȝiue him what hem lest
he went his way no lenger wold he rest
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