Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

5.434: The kyndenesse that myn evenecristene kidde me fernyere
5.435: Sixty sithes I, Sleuthe, have foryete it siththe
5.436: In speche and insparge of speche; yspilt many a tyme
5.437: Bothe flessh and fissh and manye othere vitailles,
5.438: Bothe bred and ale. buttre, melk and chese
5.439: Forsleuthed in my service til it myghte serve no man.
5.440: I [yarn] aboute in youthe, and yaf me naught to lerne
5.441: And evere sitthe have I be beggere [be] my foule sleuthe:
5.441: Heu michi quia sterilem vitam duxi iuvenilem !'
5.442: "Repentedestow the noght?' quod Repentaunce — and right with
that he swowned
5.443: Til Vigilate the veille fette water at hise eighen
5.444: And flatte it on his face and faste on hym cryde
5.445: And seide, 'Ware thee — for Wanhope wolde thee bitraye.
5.446: ""I am sory for my synnes'', seye to thiselve,
5.447: And beet thiself on the brest, and bidde Hym of grace,
5.448: For is no gilt here so gret that his goodnesse nys moore.'
5.449: Thanne sat Sleuthe up and seyned hym swithe,
5.450: And made avow tofore God for his foule sleuthe:
5.451: "Shal no Sonday be this seven yer, but siknesse it [make],
5.452: That I ne shal do me er day to the deere chirche
5.453: And here matyns and masse as I a monk were.
5.454: Shal noon ale after mete holde me thennes
5.455: Til I have evensong herd — I bihote to the Roode!
5.456: And yet wole I yelde ayein. [y]if I so muche have,
5.457: Al that I wikkedly wan sithen I wit hadde;
5.458: And though my liflode lakke, leten I nelle
5.459: That ech man shal have his er I hennes wende;
5.460: And with the residue and the remenaunt, bi the Rode of Chestre,
5.461: I shal seken truthe erst er I se Rome!'
5.462: Roberd the Robbere on Reddite loked,
5.463: And for ther was noght wher[with], he wepte swithe soore.
5.464: And yet the synfulle sherewe seide to hymselve:
5.465: "Crist, that on Calvarie upon the cros deidest,
5.466: Tho Dysmas my brother bisoughte thee of grace,
5.467: And haddest mercy on that man for Memento sake;
5.468: So rewe on this Rober[d] that Reddere ne have,
5.469: Ne nevere wene to wynne with craft that I knowe;
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