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[1029] The thirde partie of penitence is Satisfaccion and þat stant most generally in almesse / and in bodely peyne / [1030] Now ben there thre maner of Almesse Contricion of hert/ where a man offreth hym-self to god / Another is / to haue pitee of the defaute of his neighbours The thirde is in yevyng gode counceill / both gostely and bodely / where men han nede / and namely in sustenaunce of mannes fode / [1031] And take þat a man þat he hath nede of / Of thise thynges generally he hath nede / of fode he hath nede / clothyng and herborow / he hath nede of charitable counseill / and visityng in prison and maladye / and sepulture of his dede bodye / [1032] And yf þou maist nat visite the nedefull / with thy persone visite hym by thy message / and thy yiftes / [1033] Thise ben generall almesses or werkes of charitee of hem that ben riche in temperall richesse / or discrecion in counseillyng of thise werkes shalt þou heren / at the daye of dome /
[1034] Thise almesses shalt þou doo of thyn owen propre thynges / and hastely and priuely yf þou maist/ [1035] But natheles yf þou maist nat do priuely þou shalt nat forbere to do almesse / þough men se it/ so þat it be nat doon for thank of the world but onely for thank of Ihesu Crist/ [1036] for witnesseth Seint Mathew capitulo 5o A citee may nat be hide / þat is sette on a mountayne / Ne men light nat a lanterne and put it vnder a busshell but men sette it on a Candel|stykke / to light the men in þe hous / [1037] [Eg. 2726 folio 269b] Ryght so shall your light / lyghten byfore men / þat þey mow see your gode werkes / and glorifye your fader þat is in heven
[1038] Now as to speke of bodely peyne / it stant in prayers in wakynges in fastynges in vertuous
