"I do hem þenkë þan ful tyte.
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"Certes y may nat telle hyt alle,
þe synne þat y haue do, and more shal.
Cryst, loue y neuer a deyl,
Ne none þat on hym byleueþ weyl,
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For, yn euery dedly synne
y am bounde, and may nat blynne.
"Y dyd neuer commaundement
þat God vn-to þe folk haþ sent.
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Þe sacramentys of holy cherche,
y loued hem neuer, ne neuer wulde werche.
Pryue synne and sacrylage,
Þat loue y moste, and rycolage.
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holy cherche, despyse and fyle,
þat wyl y bleþly, alle my whyle." [tyme]
þe holy man, lestnë [lystene.] bygan,
And, had wundyr of þat o man
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Þat he myȝt so moche synnë do,
As he a-couped hym self vn-to:
Þe godë man, for alle þys chaunce,
Sagh yn hym no répentaunce,
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Ne no sorowe made of contrycyun
For no synne þat he had doun.
He seyd, "hast þou any shame of þy synne
Þat þou hást be so moche ynne?"
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Þe fende answered to hym aȝen:
"Wytë þou weyl for certeyn,
Þere y dyd but one or two,
Y wulde haue do twenty and mo."
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"Þan [Þan O, Þat H.] art þou," he seyd, "a wykked denyl,
Þat þou repentest þe of none euyl."
"Ȝe, certeys," he seyd, "so y am, [folio 83b:2]
A fende of helle, to þe y cam."
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"Y coniure þe þat þou me telle—
Syn þou art a fende of helle—
For what maner þyng a lyue,
