'ffor hard it is ffor hem to trace, [[St. & Tib.]]
Or by so smal an hoole to passe [[St. & Tib.]]
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Vp to that heuenly mansyoun, [[St. & Tib.]]
To cleyme there habytacyoun. [[St. & Tib.]]
THis lytle hoolë (who kan se,) [[St. & Tib.]]
Bytokeneth willefful pouerte, [[St. & Tib.]]
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Receyued with-outen eny stryffe; [[St. & Tib.]]
ffor, pore we kam in-to this lyffe, [[St. & Tib.]]
And nakyd, (who taketh heede ther-to,) [[St. & Tib.]]
Out off this lyffe we schal eke go. [Stowe folio 315a] [[St. & Tib.]]
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'Wherffore late ffolkis good heede take, [[St. & Tib.]]
(Swyche as han this world fforsake,) [[St. & Tib.]]
Hem to preserue by holynesse [[St. & Tib.]]
ffrom the bocche off ffalse richesse, [[St. & Tib.]]
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Whiche is a thyng (who kan discerne) [[St. & Tib.]]
That wyl closë the posterne [[St. & Tib.]]
Of Paradys [[St. (Tib. blurd)]] and the entre, [[St. & Tib.]]
And stope the hole [[St. (Tib. blurd)]] off pouerte, [[St. & Tib.]]
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Whiche is, to parffyte ffolke, the gate [Tib folio 39b] [[St. & Tib.]]
To lete hem in, erly and late,
Alle that ben ffounden vertuous
In ffolkis eke relygyous.
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Properte.
'THis bocche is callyd 'Properte,' [prose cap xxxiv]
Whiche is afferd off Pouerte;
ffor pouerte (as clerkys teche)
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Is bothë medicyne [[medcyne Tib., medisyn St.]] and leche
To launche the bocche off Properte,
And voyde alle superfluyte,
And the bollynge in echë [[on eche a St.]] syde.
'But Properte dar not Abyde [[Tib. & St.]]
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To suffre Pouerte hym to kerue, [[Tib. & St.]]
Leste off the wounde he schulyë sterue [[Tib. & St.]]
Leuere he hathe, in peyne tendure, [[Tib. & St.]]
Than pouerte schulde his bocche recure;
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ffor he is dredefful, and eke arwh, [[Tib. & St.]]
To passe an hole that is so narwh [[Tib. & St.]]
As hym [[it St.]] semyth in his devys, [[Tib. & St.]]
Outher to heven or paradys: [[Tib. & St.]]
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His herte is no thyng ther-on set. [[Tib. & St.]]
