Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

9.070: Madde men and maydenes that helplese were —
9.071: Alle thise lakken Inwit, and loore bihoveth.
9.072: "Of this matere I myghte make a long tale
9.073: And fynde fele witnesses among the foure doctours,
9.074: And that I lye noght of that I lere thee, Luc bereth witnesse.
9.075: "Godfader and godmoder that seen hire godchildren
9.076: At myseise and at myschief and mowe hem amende
9.077: Shul [pre]ve penaunce in purgatorie, but thei hem helpe.
9.078: For moore bilongeth to the litel barn er he the lawe knowe
9.079: Than nempnynge of a name, and he never the wiser!
9.080: Sholde no Cristene creature cryen at the yate
9.081: Ne faille payn ne potage, and prelates dide as thei sholden.
9.082: A Jew wolde noght se a Jew go janglyng for defaute
9.083: For alle the mebles on this moolde, and he amende it myghte.
9.084: "Allas that a Cristene creature shal be unkynde til another!
9.085: Syn Jewes, that we jugge Judas felawes,
9.086: Eyther helpeth oother of that that hym nedeth.
9.087: Whi nel we Cristene of Cristes good [as kynde be]
9.088: As Jewes, that ben oure loresmen? Shame to us alle!
9.089: The commune for hir unkyndenesse, I drede me, shul abye.
9.090: " Bisshopes shul be blamed for beggeres sake;
9.091: He is [jugged] wors than Judas that yyveth a japer silver
9.092: And biddeth the beggere go, for his broke clothes:
9.092: Proditor est prelatus cum Iuda qui patrimonium Christi
9.092: minus distribuit. Et alibi, Perniciosus dispensator est
9.092: qui res pauperum Christi inutiliter consumit.
9.093: He dooth noght wel that dooth thus, ne drat noght God almyghty,
9.094: Ne loveth noght Salomons sawes, that Sapience taughte:
9.094: Inicium sapiencie timor Domini.
9.095: "That dredeth God, he dooth wel; that dredeth hym for love
9.096: And noght for drede of vengeaunce, dooth therfore the bettre.
9.097: He dooth best that withdraweth hym by daye and by nyghte
9.098: To spille any speche or any space of tyme:
9.098: Qui offendit in uno, in omnibus est reus.
9.099: " [Tyn]ynge of tyme, Truthe woot the sothe,
9.100: Is moost yhated upon erthe of hem that ben in hevene;
9.101: And siththe to spille speche, that spire is of grace,
9.102: And Goddes gleman and a game of hevene.
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