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10.034: Or prechen of the penaunce that Pilat wroghte
10.035: To Jesu the gentile, that Jewes todrowe —
10.036: Litel is he loved that swich a lesson sheweth,
10.037: Or daunted or drawe forth — I do it on God hymselve!
10.038: "But thoo that feynen hem foolis and with faityng libbeth
10.039: Ayein the lawe of Oure Lord, and lyen on hemselve,
10.040: Spitten and spuen and speke foule wordes,
10.041: Drynken and drevelen and do men for to gape,
10.042: Likne men and lye on hem that leneth hem no yiftes —
10.043: Thei konne na moore mynstralcie ne musik men to glade
10.044: Than Munde the Millere of Multa fecit Deus.
10.045: Ne were hir vile harlotrye, have God my trouthe,
10.046: Sholde nevere kyng ne knyght ne canon of Seint Poules
10.047: Yyve hem to hir yeresyyve the value of a grote!
10.048: "Ac murthe and mynstralcie amonges men is nouthe
10.049: Lecherie, losengerye and losels tales —
10.050: Glotonye and grete othes, this [game] they lovyeth.
10.051: "Ac if thei carpen of Crist, thise clerkes and thise lewed,
10.052: At mete in hir murthe whan mynstrals beth stille,
10.053: Thanne telleth thei of the Trinite [how two slowe the thridde],
10.054: And bryngen forth a balled reson, and taken Bernard to witnesse,
10.055: And puten forth a presumpcion to preve the sothe.
10.056: Thus thei dryvele at hir deys the deitee to knowe,
10.057: And gnawen God with the gorge whanne hir guttes fullen.
10.058: "Ac the carefulle may crie and carpen at the yate,
10.059: Bothe afyngred and afurst, and for chele quake;
10.060: Is non to nyme hym neer his noy to amende,
10.061: But hun[s]en hym as an hound and hoten hym go thennes.
10.062: Litel loveth he that Lord that lent hym al that blisse,
10.063: That thus parteth with the povere a parcell whan hym nedeth !
10.064: Ne were mercy in meene men moore than in riche,
10.065: Mendinaunts metelees myghte go to bedde.
10.066: God is muche in the gorge of thise grete maistres,
10.067: Ac amonges meene men his mercy and hise werkes.
10.068: And so seith the Sauter — I have seighen it [in Memento]:
10.068: * Ecce audivimus eam in Effrata; invenimus eam in campis silve.
10.069: Clerkes and othere kynnes men carpen of zgod faste,
10.070: And have hym muche in hire mouth, ac meene men in herte.
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