Ȝyf þou make karol or play,
Þou halewyst nat þyn halyday. [brekyst þin holyday D.]
Ȝyf þou come ouergladly þar tyl, [come gladly þertille D.]
And ȝyuest þarto mochyl [ȝeue þerto meche D.] þy wyl,
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yn þat hast þou mochyl [haddist þou meche D.] plyȝt, [folio 7b]
For synne wyl [wyle O.] come þurgh swychë [swylke O, of þat D.] syȝt.
Ȝyf þou euer settyst swerde eyþer ryng [settyst euer swerde or rynge O, ȝif þou cause peple to gret gaderyng D.]
For to gadyr a wrastlyng, [gadere a wrastlynge O, to make revel or D.]
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Þe [þi D.] halyday þou holdest noght
whan swyche bobaunce for þe ys wroȝt. [qwan suych ryot . . wrout D.]
Cuntek [Cunteke D.] þere comyþ, or ouþer bobaunce, [or o. dystaunce O, & distaunce D.]
And summan [summe men D.] slayn, or lost [and lost O.] þurȝe [þurghe O, & lorn be D.] chaunce.
Ȝyf [And ȝif D.] þou euer yn felde, eyþer in [or in O, or D.] toune,
Dedyst floure-gerland or coroune [Sette fflour garlond vp on þi croun D.]
To makë wommen to gadyr [wommen gadere O, to do women gadere D.] þere,
To se [see O, sen weche þ . . ore were D.] whych þat feyrer were;
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Þys ys aȝens þe commaundëment,
And þe halyday for þe ys shent;
Hyt ys a gaderyng for lecherye, [of leccheryȝe D.]
And ful grete pryde, & hertë hye. [herte enuyȝe D.]
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Ȝyf þou euer ianglyst at [þou make Iangelyng at ony D.] messe
Yn þe cherche with [with om. D.] more or lesse,
And lettyst [to lette D.] men of here preyers, [preyerys OD.]
For hem perel soþely [al here pereyl forsoþe D.] þou berys;
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Þe halyday þou holdest nat [haldyst nat O, þin holiday . . . not a D.] ryȝt,
And lettyst to wurschyp [wrshype O, þat lettyst to wurschep god of myȝt D.] god almyȝt.
Halyday [þe haliday D.] was made for preyere,
