Shalt þou haue, whan deþ acounteþ;
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But yn [yn H, om. O.] euery tyme þat þou shryuest þe, [folio 79b]
Of pyne shalt þou vncharged be;
For, þe prest haþ powere
To asoyle þe quyte and clere.
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ȝyf þou for synne mayst haue sorowe,
Fro heuy pyne hyt wyl þe borowe;
Body and soule moche ys a-legged,
whan of [of þy.] synne þou art a-bregged;
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kyndly, ys þat man heuy
Loke what Iope seyþ, þat was of suff|raunce;
Þat haþ synned wykkedly.
He spekeþ to God for swyche a chaunce,
"Lorde," he seyþ, "weyl y hyt se,
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My synne ys allë áȝens me;
For, whan y þenke on my synne,
Ful of angwys y am with-ynne;
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For heuy byrdon, þat y of hem bere,
Y am confounded, my self to were."
And y haue oftë herd men seye,
And y wote my self þe certeyn wey,
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Þat, when men haue synned dedly,
Here soule ys mornyng and heuy,
And cumbred ful of þoȝt and drede,
Ne he haþ no wyl to do gode dede;
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But whan þey haue be clenë shryue
And do þe penaunce þat was hem ȝyue,
Hem þoȝt hem self wundyr lyȝt,
And, lesse dremed on þe nyȝt.
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Yn alle þys worlde [n]ys [Neither of the MSS. has a 'no.'] so heuy þyng,
As yn synne to haue dwellyng;
Þe synne God hateþ, þat on hem hangeþ;
And Goddës hatred, helle hyt fangeþ;
Þan ys wundyr, þat þe erþe hym bereþ,
But onely þat Goddys mercy hym wereþ,
