| | of humylite makist a lesyng of thy self though thou were | |
| | not in synne a fore / yet art thou in synne thenne thurgh thy | |
| | lesynge / 947 Thou shalt eke shewe thy synne by thy propre | |
| | mouth but thou be dombe / and not by letter / for thou that | |
| | hast do synne / thou shalt haue the shame of thy confession . | |
| | 948 Thou shalt not eke peynte thy confession by faire & subtil | |
| | wordes to couere the more thy synne For thenne begylest thou | |
| | thy self / and not the preest / thou muste telle it pleinly be it | |
| | neuer so horrible ne so foull / 949 Thou shalt eke shriue the to a | |
| | preest that is discrete to counceyl the / And eke thou shalt | |
| | not shriue the for veyn glorye ne for ypocresye / ne for no cause | |
| | but only for the doubte of Ihesu Crist and the hele of thy | |
| | soule 950 Thou shalt not eke renne to the preest al sodenly to | |
| | telle hym lightly thy synne as who tellith a iape or a tale . | |
| | but auisedly with grete deuocion 951 and general to shriue the | |
| | 952 ofter than onys of synne whiche thou hast be shriuen of / it | |
| | is the more merite / For as saith saint Austyn / thou shalt | |
| | haue the more lightly relece & grace of god / bothe of synne | |
| | and of payne / 953 And certis onys a yere at the lest weye / it | |
| | is lawful for to be houselid . For sothly ones a yere alle | |
| | thynges renouelyn . | |
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| | ¶ Incipit tercia pars penitencie . | |
| 954 | N | Ow haue I tolde of very confession that is the second | |
| | part of penitencie / 955 The thirde part is satisfaction / & | |
| | stondeth generally in almes dede & in bodely payne / 956 Now ben | |
| | ther thre maner of almesse Contricion of herte where a mā | |
| | offrith hym self to god / Another is to haue pyte of defaute | |
| | of his neyghbours / The thirde is in yeuyng of good coun- | |
| | ceyl and comfort bodely and gostly where men haue nede | |
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