[6-text p 657] of holy þinges. or of þing sacred of crist ¶ Sacrilege is in tuo [folio 276a] maneres þat oon is by resoun of holy place as chirches or chirchehawes. [802] For whiche euery vileins synne þat men doon in suche places may be clepid sacrilege or euery violence in semblable place ¶ þat oþer maner is. as þo þat wiþdrawen falsly þe rightes þat longen to holy chirche [803] ¶ . . . [no gap] and generally sacrilege is to reue holy þing fro holy place. and vnholy þing out of holy place. or holy thing out of holy place [[No break in the MS.]]
¶ Remedium contra Auariciam[from margin]
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NOw schul ȝe vnderstonde þat þe releuynge of auarice is misericorde and pite largely taken. And men might axen why þat misericord and pite is relieuyng of auarice. [805] ¶ Certes þe auaricious man schewith no pite ne misericorde to þe needeful man. For he delitith him in kepyng of his tresor and nouȝt in þe rescowyng ne relieuyng of his euen|cristen. & þerfore speke I first of misericord [806] ¶ Thanne is misericord as saith þe philosopher a vertu. by which þe corrage of a man is stired by þe myseise of him þat is myseysed. [807] vpon which misericorde folwith in parformynge of chariteable werkis of misericord. [808] ¶ And certes þese moeuen men to þe misericord of ihū crist þat ȝaf himself for oure gult. and suffred deþ for misericord and forȝaf vs oure original synne [809] and þer by relessid vs fro peyne of helle and amenusid þe peynes of purgatorie by penitence and ȝeueth grace wel to do and at þe laste þe ioye of heuen [810] ¶ The spices of misericorde ben for to loue and for to ȝiue. and eek for to forȝiue and for to relesse and for to haue pite in herte and compassioun of þe meschief of his
