¶A Lesson.
OF this article we may lerne to beware that we do not offer vnto Christe to drynke bytter wyne or mixte with gall. For as then the Iues and saugiours dyd to Christe: so do nowe a dayes euyl christians gyue to Christ a bitter drynke: for where as Christe thirsteth and desyreth the helth of theyr soules, they offer to hym the bytternes of theyr synfull lyfe. Tho christians that beleue wele and werke or lyue euyll: they gyue to Chryste wyne mixte with gall, for they mixte the wyne of true fayth with the mirre or gall of euyll conuersacyon, in as moche as by theyr euyll lyfe: they sclaunder the church and specyally nowe a dayes euyll prelates, our lorde amend them. This mixtyng of drynke may be also taken in a good sense. As ye shall se in the prayer fo∣lowynge.