'And some off hem arn ek ful bolde,
Off dyvers housys to axe a rente,
Wych on the byldyng neuere spente,
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As menstrallys and Tregetours, [[Trigetours St.]]
And other feyned sowdyours,
That with patentys aboutë gon;
And among hem euerychon,
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I holde thys falsë pardownerys. [[Many leaves, Chapters 24-32 of the prose, are here out of C.]]
[Stowe folio 310b] I will nat spekyn of no ffrerys,
whiche, in every regïon,
ar bound by theyr professyon
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vnto wilfull poverte.
wherfore they haven lyberte
to beggen, as them selff affyrm,
and on this text they them confyrm:
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Christ axyd, when he was her[e] man,
water of the Samaritan—
I mene, the woman at the well—
in erthë, when he dyd her[e] dwell;
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wherfore, befull [it] is to frerys,
sythe they be no processionerys,
to get theyr lyvelode wher they may.
'To ther beggyng I say nat nay,
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so that they fayn[ë] not in dede
to axë nat, but for veray nede,
thayr trewë sustentacïon,
without all symulatïon,
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that wilfully men to them profrys;
nat to shit vp gold in coffers,
nor to setten ther labowr
to gathar and hepe gret tresure.
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'as to myn opynyon,
I hold it no perfectïon,
thowghe that my dyshe & my sachell
can techen them the craft [ful] well;
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for bothë two (in sothfastnes)
be gret[ë] tookens of falsnes; [Stowe folio 311a]
and who that evar dothe them vse,
I ne can them nat excuse,
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bothe of hyghe and low degre,
