Y dar weyl seye þou hym dyffamest;
hyt ys grete synne to hym and þe
To aske or telle þat shulde nat be;
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hyt ys bakbytyng, and no shryfte;
hyt ys a spyce of euyl þryfte.
Þou lewed man, y forbede þe weyl,
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Þogh þe prest aske, bewreye þou no deyl;
Bewreyë weyl þyn ownë dede,
But none ouþer, y þe forbede.
y tolde langer yn myn auys, [folio 77b]
Loke algate þy preste be wys.
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Do nat as þe pharysu,
Preydë God aȝens hys pru;
He ȝede to þe cherche with a man
Þat men calle a publycan,—
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A publycan ys, yn oure sawe,
A synful man, oute of þe lawe;
Þys pharysu ys to mene 'byfore,'
As forby alle, and fro ouþer shore,—
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Þys pharysu bygan to prey,
And seyd, as a shrewe shulde sey,
"Lordë, þanked mote þou be, [See French, lines 10111-15.]
y am nat, as y ouþer se,
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Coueytous, ne lecherous of flesshe,
And nat as he, þys publycan, ys:
Euery woke y fastë twys,
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And ȝyue my tyþes of rychë prys."
Loke how he made hys auauntement
Of þat gode þat God hadde hym sent;
ȝe, syre, on a wykked wyse,
Oþer men for tó despyce;
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hys owne godenes, coude he nat sey,
But algate ouþer, behoueþ [behouede.] hym wreye.
Besydë stode þe pupblycan, [publykan.]
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And knew [knegh.] hym self a wykked man,
