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¶ What is religion in mynde?
In clene herte is soule o prys;
Out of þraldom doþ vnbynde;
A louer of vertues, a hatere of vys.
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Eche soule is parfyt clerk of kynde
In hyȝe discrecion, and wys.
Of soules, men may no fooles fynde
But assente to þe flesch, and make hym nys.
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¶ Religeon is champion in batayle,
Discomfites hys enemy;
Ȝif temptacions hym assayle,
Þere he hath þe victory.
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Religeon is trewe trauayle,
In goddis seruyce neuere werye.
Haue mede wiþ martyres, he may not fayle,
Þat euere is redy for to dyȝe.
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¶ Werkys wiþ-oute discrecion,
Vaynglory in staat is brouȝt;
And shrift wiþ-oute contricion,
In skorne þe sacrament þey souȝt;
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And preyere wiþ-oute deuocion,
Þouȝ þey preye, god hereþ hem nouȝt:
Þe lippes turne preyers vp so doun,
Þat spekeþ oþer þan herte þouȝt.
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¶ Cherische no vices in ȝoure warde
To serue god in good atent,
And non wiþ other be to harde,
Þat ben professed in ȝoure couent;
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Þey myȝte for-þenke it afterward
Þey tok þe abyte, and wolde repente;
Þey lese of god a gret reward
Whan wille fro religeon is wente.
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