Anoþer spyce ys yn glotonye,
To ete ouer delycyusly,
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For to be serued with many messe: [mese.]
Þat haunte þese lordyngës on dese. [on table]
wuld þey of euery a messe [mese.] ȝyue
To helpe þe pore wyþ for to lyue,
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Þe boldlyere þey myȝt hem self fede
Ȝyf þey dedyn þat almës dede.
But of almës þenk þey noȝt,
For lust and lykyng ys more yn þoght.
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Þou þat louest so many messe, [mes.] [folio 44b]
wuldest þou þenke on syre Dyues,
And of þe porë man [man also.] Laȝare
Þat syre Dyues late mysfare, —
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For he asked hym sum gode,
Of hys mete, for hys [to þe.] lyuës fode, —
y trowe þou shuldest nat forgete
Þe pore man at þy mete,
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Ȝyf þou vndyrstode, y wene,
what þe talë wulde bemene.
[The Tale of Dives and Lazarus.]
A ryche man was sum tyme of prys [A tale.]
Þat wered boþe purpure and bys,
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And euery day nobly was led,
And with delycyus metys fed;
And þer was þo a porë man,
Lazare, þat þe wurd of ran,
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He lay at þe ryche mannys ȝate,
Ful of bylës, yn þe gate [wey] ;
He ȝerned moche to ete hys fylle
Of þe crummes þat þe ryche man ded spyl, [spylle.]
But no man ȝaue hym on to byte,
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Þogh þat asked he so lyte:
But þe rychë mannës houndes
