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| is dishonest and unleefful / 704 That bodily marchandyse | |||
| that is leefful and honest is this / that there as god | |||
| hath ordeynd that a Royame or a contre is suffycyent | |||
| to hym self it is honest and leefful that the habondance | |||
| of this contre may helpe another contre that is more ne- | |||
| deful / . 705 And therfore ther muste be marchandyse to | |||
| brynge from on contre to another their marchandyse / . | |||
| 706 That other marchandise is that men haunten false othis | |||
| with fraude trecherye and disceyt with lesyngis cursid | |||
| and dampnable / 707 Spirytuel marchandyse is properly sy | |||
| monye / that is ententyf desire to thing spirytuel / that | |||
| is thing that apperteyneth to the seyntwary of god and | |||
| to cure of sowle / 708 This desyre yf so be that a man do his | |||
| dyligence to perfourme hit / al be it that his desyre take | |||
| non effect / yet is it to hym a dedely synne / and yf he be | |||
| ordryd he is Irreguler / . 709 Certes symonye is cleped of | |||
| Symon Magus that wold by temperall catell haue | |||
| bought the yeft that god had yeuen by the holy gost to | |||
| seynt Pttir and to the apostlis / 710 And therfore vnder- | |||
| stonde ye that both he that sellith and he that byeth thin | |||
| ges spyrytuel ben clepyd symonyaks / be it catel be it | |||
| procuryng or by flesshly prayers of his frendes or of spi- | |||
| rytuel frendis / . 711 Flesshly in two maners as by kynred | |||
| and by other frendis / sothly yf they pray for hym that | |||
| is not able ne worthy / it is symonye yf he take the bene | |||
| fyce / And yf he be worthy and able it is none / 712 That | |||
| other maner is whan men or women prayen for folke to | |||
| auance hem only for wicked flesshly affection that they | |||
| haue to the persones / that is foul symonye / 713 But certis | |||