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13.242: Faitours and freres and folk with brode crounes.<br />
13.243: I fynde payn for the Pope and provendre for his palfrey,<br />
13.244: And I hadde nevere of hym, have God my trouthe,<br />
13.245: Neither provendre ne personage yet of the Popes yifte,<br />
13.246: Save a pardon with a peis of leed and two polles amyddes!<br />
13.247: Hadde ich a clerc that couthe write I wolde caste hym a bille<br />
13.248: That he sente me under his seel a salve for the pestilence,<br />
13.249: And that his blessynge and hise bulles bocches myghte destruye:<br />
13.249: In nomine meo demonia eicient et super egros manus imponent et bene<br />
habebunt.<br />
13.250: And thanne wolde I be prest to the peple, paast for to make,<br />
13.251: And buxom and busy aboute breed and drynke<br />
13.252: For hyrn and for alle hise, founde I that his pardoun<br />
13.253: Mighte lechen a man — as I bileve it sholde.<br />
13.254: For sith he hath the power that Peter hadde, he hath the pot with<br />
the salve:<br />
13.254: Argentum et aurum non est michi: quod autem habeo,<br />
13.254: tibi do: In nomine Domini surge et ambula.<br />
13.255: "Ac if myght of myracle hym faille, it is for men ben noght worthi<br />
13.256: To have the grace of God, and no gilt of the Pope.<br />
13.257: For may no blessynge doon us boote but if we wile amende,<br />
13.258: Ne mannes masse make pees among Cristene peple,<br />
13.259: Til pride be pureliche fordo, and that thorugh payn defaute.<br />
13.260: For er I have breed of mele, ofte moot I swete,<br />
13.261: And er the commune have corn ynough many a cold morwenyng;<br />
13.262: So, er my wafres be ywroght, muche wo I tholye.<br />
13.263: "Al Londoun, I leve, liketh wel my wafres,<br />
13.264: And louren whan thei lakken hem; it is noght longe ypassed<br />
13.265: There was a careful commune whan no cart com to towne<br />
13.266: With bake breed fro Stratford; tho gonnen beggeris wepe,<br />
13.267: And werkmen were agast a lite — this wole be thought longe;<br />
13.268: In the date of Oure Drighte, in a drye Aprill,<br />
13.269: A thousand and thre hundred, twies thritty and ten,<br />
13.270: My wafres there were gesene, whan Chichestre was maire.'<br />
13.271: I took greet kepe, by Crist, and Conscience bothe,<br />
13.272: Of Haukyn the Actif Man, and how he was yclothed.<br />
13.273: He hadde a cote of Cristendom as Holy Kirke bileveth;<br />
13.274: Ac it was moled in many places with manye sondry plottes —<br />
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