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9.103: Wolde nevere the feithful fader his fithele were untempred,
9.104: Ne his gleman a gedelyng, a goere to tavernes.
9.105: "To alle trewe tidy men that travaille desiren,
9.106: Oure Lord loveth hem and lent, loude outher stille,
9.107: Grace to go to hem and of gon hir liflode:
9.107: Inquirentes autem Dominum non minuentur omni bono.
9.108: "In this world is Dowel trewe wedded libbynge folk],
9.109: For thei mote werche and wynne and the world sustene.
9.110: For of hir kynde thei come that Confessours ben nempned,
9.111: Kynges and knyghtes, kaysers and clerkes,
9.112: Maidenes and martires — out of o man come.
9.113: The wif was maad the w[y]e for to helpe werche,
9.114: And thus was wedlok ywroght with a mene persone —
9.115: First by the fadres wille and the frendes conseille,
9.116: And sithenes by assent of hemself, as thei two myghte acorde;
9.117: And thus was wedlok ywroght, and God hymself it made;
9.118: In erthe the heven is — hymself was the witnesse.
9.119: "Ac fals folk feithlees, theves and lyeres,
9.120: Wastours and wrecches out of wedlok, I trowe,
9.121: Conceyved ben in yvel tyme, as Caym was on Eve.
9.122: Of swiche synfulle sherewes the Sauter maketh mynde:
9.122: Concepit dolorem et peperit iniquitatem.
9.123: And alle that come of that Caym come to yvel ende.
9.124: "For God sente to Seem and seide by an aungel,
9.125: "Thyn issue in thyn issue, I wol that thei be wedded,
9.126: And noght thi kynde with Caymes ycoupled ne yspoused.''
9.127: " Yet some, ayein the sonde of Oure Saveour of hevene,
9.128: Caymes kynde and his kynde coupled togideres —
9.129: Til God wrathed with hir werkes, and swich a word seide,
9.130: " That I makede man, now it me forthynketh:
9.130: Penitet me fecisse hominem.'
9.131: "And com to Noe anon and bad hym noght lette:
9.132: "Swithe go shape a ship of shides and of bordes.
9.133: Thyself and thi sones thre and sithen youre wyves,
9.134: Busketh yow to that boot and bideth therinne
9.135: Til fourty daies be fulfild, that flood have ywasshen
9.136: Clene awey the corsed blood that Caym hath ymaked.
9.137: "Bestes that now ben shul banne the tyme
9.138: That evere that cursed Caym coom on this erthe.
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