MORALITEE.
Dere frendes, this Emperour is oure lorde Ihesu crist, the whiche hathe ordeynid̛ for lawe, þat euerye synner or Traytoure, þat is I-take thorow þe grace of god̛, and̛ browte afore a Iuge, scil. a discret confessoure, sey iij. sothefastnes, so trewe, þat no devil con sey ayene hem in þe day of dome; þen̛ with oute dowte he shalle have euerlastynge lyf, with the eritage off heuin̛. The furste trew worde is, & shalle be this, "I am a thef, scil. lappid̛ with swiche synne, and̛ swiche a cryme, and̛ I am̛ a grete synner." The secounde is, "that it is displesing to me þat I have grevid̛ god̛ so muche, for the whiche I am stressid̛ to come heþere." And̛ the thirde is, "þat if I may passe hens, by the wey of satisfaccion̛, I