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NOw pray I to ȝow alle þat heren þis litel tretis or reden þat if þer be any þing þat likes hem þat þer-of þay þanke oure lord ihū crist of whom procedith alle witte and al goodnes [1082] ¶ And if þer be eny þing þat displesith hem I pray hem þat þay arette it to þe defaute of myn vnconnyng [folio 286a] and not to my wille þat wolde fayn haue sayd better if I hadde connyng [1083] ¶ For þe book saiþ. al þat is writen. for oure doctrine is writen . . . . . [no gap] [1084] For I biseke ȝow mekely for þe mercy of god þat ȝe pray for me þat god haue mercy on me and forȝeue me my giltes [1085] and nameliche my translaciouns and of endit|yng/ in worldly vanitees. whiche I reuoke in my re|tracciouns [1086] as is þe book of troyles. þe book also of fame. þe book of .29. ladies þe book of þe duchesses. þe book of seint valentines day and of þe parliment of briddes. þe Tales of Cauntur|bury alle þilke þat sounen in to synne [1087] þe book Many of þe leo. and oþer bokes if þay were in my mynde / or remembraunce and many a song and many a leccherous lay. Of þe whiche crist for his grete mercy forȝiue me þe synnes [1088] ¶ But of þe translacioun of boce de consolacione and oþer bokes of consolacioun and of legend of lyues of seintes and omelies and moralitees and of deuocioun. [1089] that þanke I oure lord ihū crist and his moder and alle þe seintes in heuen [1090] bisekyng hem þat þay fro hennysforth vn-to my lyues ende sende me grace to biwayle my gultes and to studien to þe sauacioun of my soule and graunte me grace and space of verray repentaunce.
