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| or accusest hym by thy fals witnes / or ellis excusest thy self | |||
| falsely / 723 ware ye questmongers and notaryes / Certes for | |||
| fals witnes was susanne in grete sorowe and peyne and | |||
| many another mo / 724 The synne of thefte is expresse also a- | |||
| yenst goddes heest / And that in two maners / temporel & | |||
| spirytuel / 725 The temporel theft is as for to take thy neygh- | |||
| bours catel ayenst his wil be it by fors or by sleyght be it | |||
| in metyng or mesure / 726 by stelyng by false endytements | |||
| vpon hym / and in borowyng thy neyghbours catel in en- | |||
| tent neuer to paye and semblable thingis / 727 Spirytuel thefte | |||
| is sacrylege that is to saye ontyng of holy thyngis / or of | |||
| thyngis sacryd to Crist in two maners / by Reson of the | |||
| holy place / As chirchis and chircheyerdis 728 for euery violent | |||
| synne that men do in suche places may be clepid sacrylege . | |||
| Also they that falsely withholde the rightes of holy chirche . | |||
| 729 And pleyn and generally sacrylege is to yeue holy thing | |||
| out of holy place / or vnholy thyng out of holy place / or | |||
| holy thyng out of vnholy place / 730 Now shal ye vnderstande | |||
| that releuyng of auaryce is Myserycorde and pyte lar- | |||
| gely taken / And men myght axe why that myserycorde | |||
| and pyte is releuyng of auaryce / 731 Certes the auaricyous | |||
| man shewith no pyte ne myserycorde to the nedeful man . | |||
| For he deliteth hym in kepyng of his tresour / and not in | |||
| the rescowyng ne in the releuyng of hys euen crysten / . | |||
| And therfore speke I first of mysericorde / 732 Thenne is my | |||
| sericorde As saith the phylosophre a vertu by whiche corage | |||
| of man is styred by the mysese of hym that is mysesid . | |||
| 733 vpon the whiche myserycorde wyth pyte in perfourmyng | |||
| of Charytable werkis of mercy helpeth and comforteth | |||