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| toun / 825 so faren they be women / For right as a fre bole | |||
| is ynowh for al a toun / right so is a corupt preest ynowh for | |||
| al a parysh or a contre / 826 Thyse preestis as saith the book | |||
| knowe not the mynistery of preesthode to the peple ne to god | |||
| ne they holde hem not a paid as saith the book of sode flesh | |||
| that was to hem offryd / But they take by force the flesh | |||
| that is rawe / 827 Certis right so thyse shrewis holde hem not | |||
| a payd of rostid flesh and soden with whyche the pepyl | |||
| feden hem in grete reuerence / but they will haue rawe flesh | |||
| as folkis wyuys and her doughters / 828 And certis thyse | |||
| women that consentyn to her harlottis do grete wronge to | |||
| Crist & to holy chirche / to alle halowis and to alle soulis / for | |||
| they bereuyn hem al that shold worship Crist & holy chirche . | |||
| and also to prayen for al cristen soulis / 829 And therfore haue | |||
| suche preestis & her lemans that consentyn to her lechery the | |||
| malison of the cristen court til they come to amendement / 830 The | |||
| thirde spyce of auoultrye is somtyme betwix a man & his | |||
| wyf / And that is whan they take no regarde in their assem | |||
| bling but only for flesshly delyte / as saith seynt Iherome | |||
| 831 and recke of nothing but they be assemblid by cause they be | |||
| maried / Al is good y nowh as thinketh to hem / 832 But in | |||
| suche folk hath the deuil power as saide the aungel Raphael | |||
| to Tobye / For in her assembling they put Ihesu Crist out | |||
| of her herte / and yeue hem self to alle ordure / 833 The fourth | |||
| spyce is of hem that assemblyn by her kynrede or of hem that | |||
| ben of one affinyte / or els with hem with whom her faders | |||
| had delid with the synne of lecherye / This synne maketh | |||
| hem like houndis that taken none hede of kynrede / 834 And | |||
| certes parentela is in two maners / or gostly or flesshly . | |||