he shal hem chastyse with smert [lewede.] speche, [folio 72b]
with small baytynges, and nat with wreche.
As þe gode shepard kepyþ hys shepe,
So shalle þe prest, hys parysshenes kepe;
Þere shepe gone wrong besyde þe paþ,
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Þe shepard cryeþ for drede of skaþe;
And ȝyf þey wyl nat at hys crye
Turne aȝen to here pasture nye,
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Þan setteþ he on hys hounde,
And bayteþ hem a wel gode stounde,
And bryngeþ hem to her pasture weyl,
Ne sleþ he ȝyt none, neuer a deyl.
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with þese prestes hyt shulde fare so,
whan here parysshenes oghte mysdo;
wyþ feyre techyng, and godë spelles,
And stoutly, whan þey wyl nat elles,
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And with ordynaryys of holy cherche,
Tyl þat þey wyl ryȝtly werche;
Nat with cursyng, þat es [ys.] slaghter euyl,
So sone betake hem to þe deuyl.
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Haue to hem swych charyte
As þou wuldest God hadde to þe;
kowardyse hyt ys, and foule maystry,
To þrowe a faucoun at euery flye;
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Of flyes men mow hem weyl spourge,
And þrowe to hem naght but a scourge;
No more shal no prest þrawe,
But a scorge, þat ys loue [þat ys loue.] awe.
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Lewed man, þou shalt cursyng doute,
And to ['to' omitted.] þy prest þou shalt nat stoute;
Be he wykked, or be he gode,
Þou shalt to hym be þolëmode.
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Hyt ys nat a lytyl þyng
For to fallë yn cursyng,
For hyt reueþ þe þy gostly frendes,
And betecheþ þe vn-to þe fendes,
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And hyt forbarreþ alle gode dedes
