'nor couetyse of Gyësy.
'this hand also with his crochet,
in swyche a maner is yset
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to sell and byen this gret vertwe
whiche is callyd gracë dieu;
but, kyndly to specify,
the byggyng is callyd symony,
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and the sellyng in certeyn,
(for to speke in wordës pleyn,)
they that it sell, for gret or lyt,
bene y-callyd Gyësite;
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but symony, (who can entend,)
dothe bothe nam[ë]s comprehend;
and all that woldë thus enchace
gracë dieu out of hir place,
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to sellen hir for gold & good,
they be mad, or el[le]s wood;
and resemblen (in swiche cas,
I dare affirm,) vnto Iudas,
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that ihesu christ for mony sold [Stowe folio 312a]
full fallsly, and the panns he told.
'and suche folke (as thynkythe me)
wers than iudas, yet thay be;
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for the pennis that iudas toke,
aftarward he it forsoke,
and restoryd it agayn;
but this folke, be well certeyn,
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will for no predicatïon
nevar make restitucïon,
and cawsë why, (who lokythe well,)
is only this, for the sachell
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whiche hangythe fro my nekë doune,
of nature and condicïoun:
'what-evar into my sake ther gothe,
(who that evar be lesse or lothe,)
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it will nevar ysswe out ageyn;
the entre is bothe large and pleyne,
and the mouthe to gon in by
is evar open at the entry.
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but to comyn out, that wyll nat be
