Þe bras, to oþer, ȝyueþ [ȝyfþe.] grete sown,
And bet hym self vp and down.
And þogh y speke al yn prephecye, [prophecye.]
And haue þe kunnyng of euery maystrye,
And, with gode beleue myght seye
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Þe hylles to turne yn-to þe valey,
ȝyf hyt ne be with charyte wroght,
Ellës, he seyþ þat y am noght.
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Þogh y ȝyue alle my wurldës gode
Vnto porë mennys fode,
And ȝyue my body for to brenne
Opunly oþer men to kenne, [teche]
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But ȝyf þar be charyte with alle,
My mede þarfore shal be ful smalle."
loke now how many godenesse [godenesses.] þer are,
with-outë charyte noght but bare.
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wylt þou know [Wyltow knowe.] þy self, and se
Ȝyf þou wone yn charyte?
Charyte suffreþ boþe gode and yl,
And charyte ys of reuful wyl,
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Charyte haþ noun enuye,
And charyte wyl no felunnye;
Charyte ys nat Irus, [wraþful]
And charyte ys nat coueytous;
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Charyte wyl no bostful preysyng;
he wyl noght but ryȝtwys þyng;
Charyte loueþ no fantome,
No þynges þat euyl may of come;
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He haþ no ioye of wykkednes, [folio 48a]
But loueþ alle þat sothfast es;
Alle godenes he vp bereþ;
Alle he suffreþ, and noun he dereþ;
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Gode hope he haþ yn ryghtwys þyng,
And alle he susteyneþ to þe endyng;
Charyte ne fayleþ noght,
Ne no þyng þat with hym ys wroght.
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when alle prophecyes are alle gone, [agone.]
