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| and in signe outward / For right as he hath humylyte to | |||
| god in his herte / Right so shold he humble his body out- | |||
| ward to the preest that sitteth in goddis place / 916 For whiche | |||
| in no maner / sithnys that Crist is souerayn and the preest | |||
| mene and mediatour bitwene cryst and the synnar And | |||
| the synnar is lesse by wey of reson / 917 Than shold not the | |||
| synnar sytte as hyghe as his confessour / but knele byforn | |||
| hym or at his feet but yf maladye destourbe it / For he shal | |||
| not take kepe who syt there but in whos place he sitteth 918 A mā | |||
| that hath trespaced to a lord and comyth for to axe mercy | |||
| and make his accorde and sette hym doun anon by the lorde | |||
| Men wolde holde hym outrageous and not worthy so sone | |||
| for to haue remyssyon ne mercy / 919 The thirde signe is that | |||
| thy shryfte sholde be ful of teris yf man may wepe / And | |||
| yf a man may not wepe wyth his bodily eyen / lete hym | |||
| wepe in his herte . 920 Suche was the confession of saint Petir | |||
| For after he had forsake Ihesu Crist he wente out & wept | |||
| ful bitterly / 921 The fourth signe is that he lete not for shame | |||
| to shryue hym and shewe his confession / 922 Suche was the | |||
| confession of the Mawdeleyn / that sparith for no shame of hem | |||
| that were at the feste / for to go to our lord Ihesu Crist and | |||
| beknowe to hym her synne . 923 The fyfthe signe is / that man | |||
| and woman be obeyssaunt to resceyue the penaunce that is | |||
| enioyned hem / For certes Ihesu Crist for the gylt of one | |||
| man was obedyent to the deth . / 924 The second condicion of | |||
| very confession is that hit be hastely be doon . / For certes yf | |||
| a man had a dedly wounde / euer the lenger that he taryed | |||
| to warissh hym / the more wolde it corupte and haste hym | |||
| to his deth / And eke the wounde be the worse for to hele | |||