Ne myȝt haue made me halfe so blyþe;
hys preyer was to God so dere,
Þat he besoghte, þat [al.] wlde he here,
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Ȝyf he had preyd for an hundred mo,
Fro pyne to blys, he had broȝt þo;
For what þyng he hade asked bone, [folio 69b:2]
God had graunted hyt hym as sone;
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And haue gode day, for now y wende
To þe ioye with-outyn ende."
God late vs neuer þer-of mysse,
with-outyn ende to haue þat blys!
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Þys wyfe come sonë on þe morne,
And fyl on knees þe frere byforne,
And toldë hym weyl, euery deyl,
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How he, for hys prayer, yn ioye was weyl;
And þe frere ful weyl þarby lete,
And þanked God; and ['and' omitted.] for ioye he grete. [wepte]
weyl were hym at hys endyng
Þat had swych a prest for hym to synge!
Yn þys tale, þan, shewed ys,
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Ouer alle gode þan ys þe messe;
For þe sacrament of þe autere
Oueral passeþ hys powere;
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Yn þat messe, þey hem affye,
Þe [Þo.] soules þat are yn purgatorye,
For hyt makeþ mencyun of þe passyun
As Ihesu Cryst to deþ was doun;
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Þe sone ys offred to þe fadyr yn heuene
For þe [þo.] soules þat þe prest wyl neuene.
Also, þys talë wyl mene
Þat þe preste be gode and clene;
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Þan wyl Ihesu Cryst hym here,
For what þyng he makeþ preyere:
Preye he for body, or for soule, [soule or for bodye.]
Þat ys yn pyne, or here yn noye,
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Boþe wyl God almyȝty saue,
what-so þe godë prest wyl craue.
Nat only for soules ys he herd,
