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| and namely in substaunce of mannys food / 957 And take | |||
| kepe that a man hath nede of these thingis generally / he hath | |||
| nede of food of clothing and herberowh / he hath nede of | |||
| charitable counceyllyng and visityng in pryson / and ma | |||
| ladye and sepulture of dede bodyes / 958 And yf thou maist | |||
| not visite the nedeful with thy persone / visite hym with | |||
| thy message & thy yeftis / 959 These ben the general almesses | |||
| of werkis of charite of hem that haue temporel richesse or | |||
| discrescion in counceyllyng / Of these werkis shalt thou here | |||
| at the day of dome 960 this almesse sholdest thou do of thy proper | |||
| thingis and hastely and priuely yf thou maist / 961 But na | |||
| theles yf thou maist not do it priuely thou shalt not forbere | |||
| to do almes though men see hit / so that it be not do for thank | |||
| of the world / but only for to haue thanke of our lord Ihesu | |||
| Crist / 962 For as witnessith saynt Mathew / A Cyte may | |||
| not be hyd that is set vpon a mountayn / ne men light not | |||
| a lantern and put hit vnder a busshel / but setten it vpon | |||
| a Candelstik to lighten the men in the hous / 963 Right so shal | |||
| your light / lighten before men that they mowe see your good | |||
| werkis and gloryfye your fader that is in heuen / 964 Now as | |||
| for to speke of bodily peyne / it stont in prayers . in waking | |||
| In fastyng and in vertuouse techyng of orisons / 965 ye shal | |||
| vnderstande that orisons or prayers is for to saye / A pieto9 | |||
| voys of herte that is redressid in god and expressing it | |||
| by worde outward to remeue harmeful thyngis / and to | |||
| haue thingis spirytuel and durable and somtyme temporel | |||
| thingis / Of whiche orisons / in the orison of pater noster | |||
| hath Ihesu Crist enclosid moste thingis / 966 Certis it is pry- | |||
| uylegid of thre thingis in his dignyte / for whiche it is | |||