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< 333v Cx1: Folio 334r; The Parson's Tale 168-178 334v > Go to Cx2
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 werkyng of dedely synne ther is no trust to good werk  
 that we haue don beforn / That is to saye as to haue ther by  
 the lyf pardurable in heuen / 168 But sothly the good werkes  
 that men don whyles they ben in dedly synne for as mykil  
 as they were don in dedely synne they may neuer quycken / .  
 169 For certes thyngis that neuer had lyf may neuer quycken  
 And natheles al be it that they auayle not to haue the lyf  
 perdurable / yet auaylen they to a brygge of the peyne of helle  
 Or ellis to gete temporel riches / 170 or ellis that god wyl ra-  
 ther enlumyne and lighten the herte of the synful man to  
 haue repentaunce / . 171 And eke they auayle to a man to do  
 good werkis that the fende hath the lasse power of his sowle  
 172 And thus the curteys lord Ihesu Crist wil that no good  
 werke be lost / For in sumwhat it shal auaylle / 173 but for as  
 muche as the good werkis that men don whyles they ben  
 in good lyf been al mortifyed by synne folowyng / And  
 eke sith alle the good werkes that men don whylis they be  
 in dedly synne ben vtterly dede as for to haue the lyf perdu  
 rable174 wel may that man that no good werk doth syng  
 that fresh new song / Iay tout perdu mon temps et mon  
 labour / . 175 For certes it bereueth a man goodnes and na-  
 ture and eke the goodnes of grace / 176 For soth the grace of  
 the holy gost farith as fyre that may not be ydle / For fyre  
 fayleth anon as it leseth his werchyng / 177 Than leseth the  
 synful man the goodnes of glorye that only is behoten to  
 good men that labouren and werken / 178 wel may he be sory  
 thenne that oweth al his lyf to god as longe as he liueth  
 And eek as longe as he shal lyue / that no goodnes hath  
 to paye with his dette to god to whom he oweth al his lyf  
  

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