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7.101: That taken this myschief mekeliche, as mesels and othere,<br />
7.102: Han as pleyn pardon as the <strong>Plowman</strong> hymselve.<br />
7.103: For Iove of hir lowe hertes Oure Lord hath hem graunted<br />
7.104: Hir penaunce and hir Purgatorie upon this [pure] erthe.<br />
7.105: " <strong>Piers</strong>,' quod a preest thoo, " thi pardon moste I rede;<br />
7.106: For I shal construe ech clause and kenne it thee on Englissh.'<br />
7.107: And <strong>Piers</strong> at his preiere the pardon unfoldeth —<br />
7.108: And I bihynde hem bothe biheld al the bull<br />
7.109: In two lynes it lay, and noght a le[ttre] moore,<br />
7.110: And was writen right thus in witnesse of truthe:<br />
7.110: Et qui bona egerunt ibunt in vitam eternam.<br />
7.110: Qui vero mala, in ignem eternum.<br />
7.111: " Peter! ' quod the preest thoo, " I kan no pardon fynde<br />
7.112: But "-Do wel and have wel. and God shal have thi soule,'<br />
7.113: And " Do yvel and have yvel, and hope thow noon oother<br />
7.114: That after thi deeth day the devel shal have thi soule!'<br />
7.115: And <strong>Piers</strong> for pure tene pulled it atweyne<br />
7.116: And seide,-Si ambulavero in medio umbre mortis<br />
7.117: Non timebo mala, quoniam tu mecum es.<br />
7.118: "I shal cessen of my sowyng,' quod <strong>Piers</strong>, "and swynke noght so<br />
harde,<br />
7.119: Ne aboute my bely joye so bisy be na moore;<br />
7.120: Of preieres and of penaunce my plough shal ben herafter,<br />
7.121: And wepen whan I sholde slepe, though whete breed me faille.<br />
7.122: "The prophete his payn eet in penaunce and in sorwe,<br />
7.123: By that the Sauter seith — so dide othere manye.<br />
7.124: That loveth God lelly, his lifiode is ful esy:<br />
7.124: Fuerunt michi lacrime mee panes die ac nocte.<br />
7.125: "And but if Luc lye, he lereth us by foweles<br />
7.126: We sholde noght be to bisy aboute the worldes blisse:<br />
7.127: Ne soliciti sitis, he seith in the Gospel<br />
7.128: And sheweth us by ensamples us selve to wisse.<br />
7.129: The foweles in the feld, who fynt hem mete at wynter?<br />
7.130: Have thei no gerner to go to, but God fynt hem alle.'<br />
7.131: "What!' quod the preest to Perkyn, "Peter! as me thynketh,<br />
7.132: Thow art lettred a litel — who lerned thee on boke?'<br />
7.133: "Abstynence the Abbesse,' quod <strong>Piers</strong>,-myn a.b.c. me taughte,<br />
7.134: And Conscience cam afterward and kenned me muche moore.'<br />
7.135: " Were thow a preest, <strong>Piers</strong>,' quod he, " thow myghtest preche<br />
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