For, so kynde a womman as y of tolde,
lyueþ nat now, be þou bolde;
Line 10796
Ne no clerk, þat þys [þys O, om. H.] ryme redys,
Shal fynde a womman of so kynde dedes.'
Ȝe men þat are now yn present,
þat haue herd me rede þys sacrament,
how ouer alle þyng hyt haþ powere,
Line 10801
Þe sacrament of þe autere,
As y haue here to ȝow shewed
—Nat to lered onely, but eke to lewed,—
Ȝe lewed men, y telle hyt ȝow,
Line 10805
Þese clerkys kun [kunne.] hyt weyl y-now,
Pray we [Preye we now.] alle oure creatoure, [creatour O, creature H.]
Þe sacrament oure sauyoure, [sauueour.]
Line 10808
Þat body and soule he wyl vs saue,
And we hym loue, and he vs haue! [The Vernon MS. borrowing ends here.]
[Of Penance.]
The fourþe sacráment ys penaunce,
Þat ys for synnë a quytaunce;
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God graunte vs alle, penaunce to do,
For we haue gretë nede þarto.
Aȝens þys, þan, synnë þo
Þat to shryftë onely go
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with-oute any manér of smert [folio 72a]
Of felyng, of sorowe of hert;
Euery man shulde haue a-fore þoȝt
Line 10819
How and whan hys synne was wroȝt,
And beþenke hym weyl on [of.] euery dede,
Fyrst are he to shryftë ȝede;
Elles, asoyled may he nat be clene,
Of forȝetë synnes, y mene.
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Ouer lytyl fors certys he ȝyueþ
Of any penaunce, or how he lyueþ;
