For non so clene of such a clos com never er þenne.
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And ȝif clanly he þenne com, ful cortays þerafter,
Þat alle þat longed to luþer ful lodly he hated;
By nobleye of his norture he nolde never towche
Oȝt þat watz ungoderly oþer ordure watz inne.
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Ȝet comen lodly to þat Lede, as lazares monye,
Summe lepre, summe lome, and lomerande blynde,
Poysened, and parlatyk, and pyned in fyres,
Drye folk, and ydropike, and dede, at þe laste—
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Alle called on þat Cortayse and claymed his grace.
He heled hem wyth hynde speche of þat þay ask after,
For what so he towched, also tyd torned to hele,
Wel clanner þen any crafte cowþe devyse.
Line 1100
So clene watz his hondelyng uche ordure hit schonied,
And þe gropyng so goud of God and man boþe,
Þat for fetys of his fyngeres fonded he never
Nauþer to cout ne to kerve wyth knyf ne wyth egge; [MS., M. cout; M. note cut(?).]
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Forþy brek he þe bred blades wythouten,
For hit ferde freloker in fete in his fayre honde,
Displayed more pryvyly when he hit part schulde,
Þenne alle þe toles of Tolowse moȝt tyȝt hit to kerve.
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Þus is he kyryous and clene þat þou his cort askes;
Hou schulde þou com to his kyth bot if þou clene were?
Nou ar we sore and synful and souly uch one, [MS. sovly; M. sov[er]ly; Fi. soudly or solwy.]
How schulde we se, þen may we say, þat Syre upon throne?
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Ȝis, þat Mayster is mercyable, þaȝ þou be man fenny
And al tomarred in myre, whyl þou on molde lyvyes;
Þou may schyne þurȝ schryfte, þaȝ þou haf schome served,
And pure þe with penaunce tyl þou a perle worþe.
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Perle praysed is prys þer perre is schewed, [folio 76b]
