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| That yf thou haue licence to shryue the to a discrete and | |||
| an honest preest / and where the liketh / and by the licence | |||
| of thy curate / that thou ne maist wel shryue the of alle thy | |||
| synnys / 936 but leet no blot behynde / lete no synne be vntold | |||
| as fer as thou hast remenbraunce / 937 And whan thou shalt | |||
| be shryuen of thy curate / telle hym eke alle the synnys that | |||
| thou hast don syth thou were last shryuen / 938 Also the very | |||
| shryfte askith certeyn condicions / First that thou shryue | |||
| the by thy fre wil / not constreyned ne for shame of folk . | |||
| ne for maladye or suche thingis / for it is reson that he that | |||
| trespaceth by his fre will confesse his trespaas / 939 ne none | |||
| other man shal telle his synne / ne wrathe hym ayenst the | |||
| preest for his amonesshyng to lete his synne . 940 The second | |||
| condicion is that thy shryfte be lawful / that is to saye / thou | |||
| that shryuest the / and eke the preest that herith thy confes- | |||
| sion been verily in the feith of holy chirche 941 and that a man | |||
| be not dispayrid of the mercy of Ihesu Crist as Cayn and | |||
| Iudas were / 942 And eke a man muste accuse hym self of his | |||
| owen trespaas / and not another / but he shal blame and | |||
| wyte hym self of his owen malice and of his synne and | |||
| non other / 943 But natheles yf another man be encheson of en- | |||
| tysyng of his synnys / or yf the estate of a persone be suche | |||
| by whiche his synne is agreggid or els that he may not | |||
| pleinly shryue but he telle the persone whiche he hath synnyd | |||
| with / thenne may he telle 944 so that his entente be not to bac- | |||
| byte the persone / but only to declare his confession / 945 Thou | |||
| shalt eke make no lesynge in thy confession for humylyte | |||
| Perauenture to saye that thou hast do synnys of whiche thou | |||
| were neuer gilty / 946 For seynt Austyn saith / yf thou by cause | |||