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15.102: Shal nevere fiour ne fruyt, ne fair leef be grene.<br />
15.103: "Forthi wolde ye lettrede leve the lecherie of clothyng,<br />
15.104: And be kynde as bifel for clerkes and curteise of Cristes goodes,<br />
15.105: Trewe of youre tonge and of youre tail bothe,<br />
15.106: And hatien to here harlotrie, and aught to underfonge<br />
15.107: Tithes of untrewe thyng ytilied or chaffared —<br />
15.108: Lothe were lewed men but thei youre loore folwede<br />
15.109: And amenden hem that thei mysdoon, moore for youre ensaumples<br />
15.110: Than for to prechen and to preven it noght — ypocrisie it semeth!<br />
15.111: For ypocrisie in Latyn is likned to a dongehill<br />
15.112: That were bisnewed with snow, and snakes withinne,<br />
15.113: Or to a wal that were whitlymed and were foul withinne.<br />
15.114: Right so manye preestes, prechours and prelates —<br />
15.115: Ye [b]en enblaunched with bele paroles and with clothes,<br />
15.116: Ac youre werkes and wordes therunder aren ful w[o]lveliche.<br />
15.117: Johannes Crisostomus of clerkes speketh and preestes:<br />
15.117: Sicut de templo omne bonum progreditur, sic de templo omne<br />
15.117: malum procedit. Si sacerdocium integrum fuerit, tota floret<br />
15.117: ecclesia; si autem corruptum fuerit, omnium fides marcida est.<br />
15.117: Si sacerdocium fuerit in peccatis, totus populus convertitur<br />
15.117: ad peccandum. Sicut cum videris arborem pallidam et marcidam<br />
15.117: intelligis quod vicium habet in radice, ita cum videris<br />
15.117: populum indisciplinatum et irreligiosum, sine dubio<br />
15.117: sacerdocium eius non est sanum.<br />
15.118: "If lewed men wiste what this Latyn meneth,<br />
15.120: And who was myn auctour, muche wonder me thinketh<br />
15.121: But if many preest beere, for hir baselardes and hir broches,<br />
15.122: A peire of bedes in hir hand and a book under hir arme.<br />
15.123: Sire Johan and Sire Geffrey hath a girdel of silver,<br />
15.124: A baselard or a ballok-knyf with botons overgilte.<br />
15.125: Ac a porthors that sholde be his plow, Placebo to sigge,<br />
15.126: Hadde he nevere, [his] service to [h]ave,<br />
15.127: [And save he have] silver therto, seith it with ydel wille.<br />
15.128: "Allas, ye lewed men, muche lese ye on preestes!<br />
15.129: Ac thing that wikkedly is wonne, and with false sleightes,<br />
15.130: Wolde nevere the wit of witty God but wikkede men it hadde —<br />
15.131: The whiche arn preestes inparfite and prechours after silver,<br />
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