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11.108: Ac the matere that she meved, if lewed men it knewe,
11.109: The lasse, as I leve, lovyen thei wolde
11.110: The bileve o[f Oure] Lord that lettred men techeth.
11.111: This was hir teme and hir text — I took ful good hede:
11.112: "Multi to a mangerie and to the mete were sompned;
11.113: And whan the peple was plener comen, the porter unpynned the
yate
11.114: And plukked in Pauci pryveliche and leet the remenaunt go
rome.'
11.115: Al for tene of hir text trembled myn herte,
11.116: And in a weer gan I wexe, and with myself to dispute
11.117: Wheither I were chose or noght chose; on Holy Chirche I
thoughte,
11.118: That underfeng me atte font for oon of Goddes chosene.
11.119: For Crist cleped us alle, come if we wolde —
11.120: Sarsens and scismatikes, and so he dide the Jewes:
11.120: O vos omnes sicientes, venite &c;
11.121: And bad hem souke for synne sa[l]ve at his breste.
11.122: And drynke boote for bale, brouke it whoso myghte.
11.123: "Thanne may alle Cristene come,' quod I,-and cleyme there entree
11.124: By the blood that he boughte us with and thorugh bapteme after:
11.124: Qui crediderit et baptizatus fuerit &c.
11.125: For though a Cristen man coveited his Cristendom to reneye,
11.126: Rightfully to reneye no reson it wolde.
11.127: " For may no cherl chartre make, ne his c[h]atel selle
11.128: Withouten leve of his lord — no lawe wol it graunte.
11.129: Ac he may renne in arerage and rome fro home,
11.130: And as a reneyed caytif recchelesly aboute.
11.131: Ac Reson shal rekene with hym and rebuken hym at the laste,
11.132: And Conscience acounte with hym and casten hym in arerage,
11.133: And putten hym after in prison in purgatorie to brenne,
11.134: For his arerages rewarden hym there right to the day of dome,
11.135: But if Contricion wol come and crye by his lyve
11.136: Mercy for hise mysdedes with mouthe or with herte.'
11.137: " That is sooth,' seide Scripture; " may no synne lette
11.138: Mercy al to amende, and mekenesse hir folwe;
11.139: For thei beth, as oure bokes telleth, above Goddes werkes:-
11.139: Misericordia eius super omnia opera eius.'
11.140: "Ye, baw for bokes!' quod oon was broken out ofhelle.
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