Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

Passus Fourteen
14.001: "I have but oon hool hater,' quod Haukyn, "I am the lasse to
blame
14.002: Though it be soiled and selde clene — I slepe therinne o nyghtes;
14.003: And also I have an houswif, hewen and children —
14.003: Uxorem duxi, et ideo non possum venire —
14.004: That wollen bymolen it many tyme, maugree my chekes.
14.005: It hath be laved in Lente and out of Lente bothe
14.006: With the sope of siknesse, that seketh wonder depe,
14.007: And with the losse of catel, that looth me w[ere]
14.008: For to agulte God or any good man, by aught that I wiste;
14.009: And was shryven of the preest, that [for my synnes gaf me]
14.010: To penaunce, pacience, and povere men to fede,
14.011: Al for coveitise of my Cristendom in clennesse to kepen it.
14.012: And kouthe I nevere, by Crist! kepen it clene an houre,
14.013: That I ne soiled it with sighte or som ydel speche,
14.014: Or thorugh werk or thorugh word, or wille of myn herte,
14.015: That I ne flobre it foule fro morwe til even.'
14.016: "And I shal kenne thee,' quod Conscience, "of Contricion to make
14.017: That shal clawe thi cote of alle kynnes filthe —
14.017: Cordis contricio &c;
14.018: Dowel shal wasshen it and wryngen it thorugh a wis confessour
—
14.018: Oris confessio &c;
14.019: Dobet shal beten it and bouken it as bright as any scarlet,
14.020: And engreynen it with good wille and Goddes grace to amende
the,
14.021: And sithen sende thee to Satisfaccion for to sonnen it after:
14.021: Satisfaccio.
14.022: "And Dobest kepe[th] clene from unkynde werkes.
14.023: Shal nevere my[te] bymolen it, ne mothe after biten it,
14.024: Ne fend ne fals man defoulen it in thi lyve.
14.025: Shal noon heraud ne harpour have a fairer garnement
14.026: Than Haukyn the Actif man, and thow do by my techyng,
14.027: Ne no mynstrall be moore worth amonges povere and riche
14.028: Than Haukyn wi[l] the wafrer, which is Activa Vita.'
14.029: "And I shal purveie thee paast,' quod Pacience, "though no
plough erye,
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