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11.277: For failed nevere man mete that myghtful God serveth,
11.278: As David seith in the Sauter; to swiche that ben in wille
11.279: To serve God goodliche, ne greveth hym no penaunce —
11.279: Nichil inpossibile volenti —
11.280: Ne lakketh nevere liflode, lynnen ne wollen:
11.280: *Iuquirentes autem Dominum non minuentur omni bono.
11.281: "If preestes weren wise, thei wolde no silver take
11.282: For masses ne for matyns, noght hir mete of usureres,
11.283: Ne neither kirtel ne cote, theigh thei for cold sholde deye,
11.284: And thei hir devoir dide, as David seith in the Sauter:
11.284: Iudica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam.
11.285: "Spera in Deo speketh of preestes that have no spendyng silver
11.286: That if thei travaille truweliche and truste in God almyghty,
11.287: Hem sholde lakke no liflode, neyther lynnen ne wollen.
11.288: And the title that ye take ordres by telleth ye ben avaunced;
11.289: Thanne nedeth yow noght to [nyme] silver for masses that ye
syngen.
11.290: For he that took yow youre title sholde take yow youre wages,
11.291: Or the bisshop that blessed yow, if that ye ben worthi.
11.292: "For made nevere kyng no knyght but he hadde catel to spende
11.293: As bifel for a knyght, or foond hym for his strengthe.
11.294: It is a careful knyght, and of a caytif kynges makyng,
11.295: That hath no lond ne lynage riche ne good loos of hise handes.
11.296: The same I segge for sothe by alle swiche preestes
11.297: That han neither konnynge ne kyn, but a crowne one
11.298: And a title, a tale of noght, to his liflode at meschief.
11.299: He hath moore bileve, as I leve, to lacche thorugh his croune
11.300: Cure than for konnynge or "knowen for clene of berynge.'
11.301: I Have wonder for why and wherfore the bisshop
11.302: Maketh swiche preestes, that lewed men bitrayen !
11.303: "A chartre is chalangeable bifore a chief justice:
11.304: If fals Latyn be in that lettre, the lawe it impugneth,
11.305: Or peynted parentrelynarie, parcelles overskipped.
11.306: The gome that gloseth so chartres for a goky is holden.
11.307: "So is it a goky, by God! that in his gospel failleth
11.308: Or in masse or in matyns maketh any defaute:
11.308: Qui offendit in uno, in omnibus est reus.
11.309: And also in the Sauter seith David to overskipperis,
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