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| of whiche he is hym self gilty or dispiseth god and alle | |||
| his halowis as don thyse cursid hasourdours in diuerse con | |||
| trees / 507 This cursed synne do they whan they felen in her | |||
| herte ful wickedly of god and his halowis / 508 Also whan | |||
| they tretyn vnworthyly the sacrament of the awter / Thilk | |||
| synne is so grete / that vnnethe may it be relecyd but that | |||
| the mercy of god passyth his werkis / whyche mercy is | |||
| grete and benygne / 509 Ther cometh also of Ire a tery anger | |||
| Whan a man is sharply amonesshed in his shryfte to | |||
| forlete his synne / 510 Than wil he be angry and answere ho- | |||
| kirly & angerly to defende or excusyn his synne / by vnsted- | |||
| fastnes of his flesh / or ellis he dyde hit for to holde company | |||
| with his felaws / or ellis he saith / the fende entised hym . | |||
| 511 or ellis he dyde hit for his yongth / or els his complexion | |||
| is so corageous that he may not forbere / ellis it is destyne | |||
| as he saith vnto a certayn age / or ellis he saith it comyth | |||
| hym of gentilnes of his auncetryes and semblable thingis | |||
| 512 Alle thyse maner of folk so wrappen hem in her synnys | |||
| that they wil not delyuer hem self / For sothly no wight | |||
| that excusith hym wilfully of his synne / may be deliuerd | |||
| of his synne / til he mekely beknoweth his synne / 513 After | |||
| thenne cometh sweryng that is expres ayenst the comaun- | |||
| dement of god and this befallyth of anger and of Ire . | |||
| 514 God saith thou shalt not take the name of thy lord in | |||
| ydil / Also our lord Ihesu Crist saith by the word of seynt | |||
| mathew / 515 ne wille ye to swere in alle maner / neyther by he- | |||
| uen for hit is goddis Trone / neyther by erthe for it is the | |||
| benche of his feet / ne by Iherusalem / for it is the Cyte of a | |||
| grete kynge / ne by thyn hede / for thou ne maist make an | |||