'This thyng to-fforne I kan no [[nat St.]] se,
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ffor in no thyng I [[I St., that I Tib.]] kan affye,
But gold and good to multeplye.
Gold is my god and my Mawmet;
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¶ And al on gold myne herte [[all [my] hert to gold St.]] is sette;
ffor golde, I dyde fful greet offence,
In colys to rostë seynt Laurence.
For he, off pite (thus it stood) [[St. & Tib.]]
Ȝaue the tresoure and the good
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Off holy churchë ffor almesse,
To pore ffolkis he [[to folke that he St.]] ffonde in distresse. [[Illumination.]]
'BUt I, [[I St., om. Tib.]] in myne oppynyoun,
am [[am St., I am Tib.]] not off that condicioun:
To getë good is my laboure,
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And to awmentë my tresoure,
And (as it is to ffolke fful kouthe,)
More in agë thanne in ȝouthe,
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Som tyme with lesynges and with ffablys,
Som tyme at [[at St., at the Tib.]] chesse, som tyme at tablys,
At merels and the botevaunt, [Tib folio 41a]
At hasard and at [[at St., om. Tib.]] [the] devaunt,
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And at these pleyës euerychon,
My mawmet I worschipe euere in oon.
¶ ffor, wher-so [[so St., om. Tib.]] it be vyce or synne,
I do no thyng but ffor to wynne;
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To good is al-way my repayre.
'And, ffor my Mawmet is so ffayre,
And ffulffylled off [[withe St.]] alle plesaunce,
Do [[Do St., To do Tib.]] ther-to som óbseruaunce,
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And knele anoon vpon thy kne, [Stowe folio 316a]
Lowely to [[vnto St.]] his dëyte.
ffor, but [[for but . . do St., But ffor . . a Tib.]] thow do with-out[ë] more,
Thow schalt abyggen it fful sore;
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And I schal ellys verrey [[warreye St.]] the;
Thow geteste no lenger trewys off me.'
¶ The Pylgryme:
ANd whilë sche gan me [[me Tib., me to St.]] assayle
fful cruelly, as by batayle,
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Alle sodeynely I dydë sen,
