[6-text p 674] harneys [975] ¶ The seuenthe circumstance / is / in what [The .vij.e circumstaunce] manere he hath doon his synne / or how þat she hath suffred þat folk han doon to hire. [976] And the same shal the man telle pleynly with alle circumstances. and wheither he hath synned with comune bordel wommen or noon. [977] or doon his synne in hooly tymes or noon. in fast|ynge tymes or noon. or biforn his shrifte. or after his latter shrifte. [978] and hath per auenture / broken ther-fore his penance enioyned. by whos helpe and whos conseil. by sorcerie or craft. al moste be toold [979] ¶ Alle thise thynges. after þat they been grete or smale engreggen the conscience of man. And eek the preest þat is thy Iuge may the bettre been auysed of his Iuggement in yeuynge of thy penance and that is after thy contricion ‖ [980] ffor vnderstond wel þat after tyme þat a man hath defouled his baptesme by synne. if he wole come to [folio 234a] saluacioun. ther is noon other wey / but by penitence / and shrifte and satisfaccioun [981] and namely by the two if ther be a confessour / to which he may shriuen hym / and the thridde if he haue lyf to parfournen it
[982] Thanne shal man looke and considere / þat if he wole maken a trewe and a profitable confessioun ther moste be .iiij. condicions [983] ¶ ffirst it moot been in [¶ How shrift moot been sorweful] sorweful bitternesse of herte. as seyde the kyng Ezechiel to [¶ Nota de con|fessione Regis Ezechielis] god /. I wol remembre me alle the yeres of my lif in bitternesse of myn herte /. [984] this condicion of bitter|nesse [¶ How con|fessioun moste be shamefast/] hath fyue signes ¶ The firste is / þat confession moste be shamefast. nat for to couere ne hyden his synne / for he hath agilt his god and defouled his soule /. [985] And ther-of seith seint Augustyn ¶ the herte [¶ Sanctus Augustinus.] trauailleth for shame of his synne / and for he hath greet shamefastnesse / he is digne to haue greet mercy of god [986] ¶ Swich was the confession of the Puplican þat [Nota de con|fessione Publi|cani] wolde nat heuen vp hise eyen to heuene / for he hadde offended god of heuene / for which shamefastnesse/ he hadde anon the mercy of god [987] ¶ And ther-of seith
