Of teþe tenfully togeder, to teche hym be quoynt.'
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Thus comparisunez Kryst þe kyndom of heven [MS., M. heven.]
To þis frelych feste þat fele arn to called;
For alle arn laþed luflyly, þe luþer and þe better,
Þat ever wern fulȝed in font þat fest to have.
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Bot war þe wel, if þou wylt, þy wedez ben clene,
And honest for þe halyday, lest þou harme lache,
For aproch þou to þat Prynce of parage noble—
He hates helle no more þen hem þat ar sowle. [MS., M. sowle; M. note fowle(?); Fi. soudly.]
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Wich arn þenne þy wedez þou wrappez þe inne,
Þat schal schewe hem so schene schrowde of þe best?
Hit arn þy werkez, wyterly, þat þou wroȝt havez,
And lyved wyth þe lykyng þat lyȝe in þyn hert,
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Þat þo be frely and fresch fonde in þy lyve,
And fetyse of a fayr forme, to fote and to honde,
And syþen alle þyn oþer lymez lapped ful clene;
Þenne may þou se þy Savior and his sete ryche,
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For fele fautez may a freke forfete his blysse,
Þat he þe Soverayn ne se—þen for slauþe one,
As for bobaunce and bost, and bolnande pryde, [MS., M. priyde, but this is merely the scribe's error in adding y after he had already made the abbreviation.]
Þroly into þe develez þrote man þryngez bylyve;
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For covetyse, and colwarde and croked dedez,
For mon-sworne, and men-sclaȝt, and to much drynk, [folio 63b]
For þefte, and for þrepyng, unþonk may mon have;
For roborrye, and riboudrye, and resounez untrwe,
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And dysheriete and depryve dowrie of wydoez,
For marryng of maryagez, and mayntnaunce of schrewez,
For traysoun and trichcherye, and tyrauntyre boþe, [M. suggests loþe(?) for boþe.]
And for fals famacions and fayned lawez—
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Man may mysse þe myrþe þat much is to prayse
