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¶A songe.
* 1.1¶It is good to be mery,
But who cam me mery?
He that hath a pure conscience,
He may well be mery.
¶Who hath a pure conscience tel me?
No man of him self, I ensure the,
Then must it folow of necessitie,
That no man can be mery.
¶Puritie it selfe may purenes geue,
you must aske it of God in true beleue,
Then wyl he geue it, and none repreue,
And so we may be mery.
¶What is the practice of a conscience pure?
To loue and feare God, and other allure,
And for his sake, to helpe hys neighbour,
Then may he well be mery.
¶What shall he haue, that can and wil do this
After this life, euerlasting blisse,
yet not by desert, but by gyft ywisse,
There god make vs all mery.
☞Finis.