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| he shal thynke that as ofte as he fallith / he shal arysen by | |||
| penytence / And though he neuer so longe haue leyn in synne | |||
| The mercy of Crist is alway redy to resceyue hym to mercy | |||
| 1000 Ayenst the wanhope that he demyth that he shold not longe | |||
| perseuere in goodnes / he shal thynke that the febilnes of | |||
| the deuyl may no thing do but men wol suffre hym / 1001 And | |||
| eke he shal haue strengthe of god and of alle holy chirche | |||
| and of the protectyon of aungellis yf hym list / 1002 Thenne | |||
| shulle men vnderstonde what is the fruyt of penaunce / and | |||
| after the word of Ihesu Crist / it is endeles blisse of heuene | |||
| 1003 There ioye hath no contrariosite of woo ne greuaunce / there | |||
| alle harmys be past of this present lyf / there as is sikernes | |||
| fro the peynes of helle / there as is the blessid companye that | |||
| reioysen euermore eueriche of others Ioye / there as the body | |||
| of man that whylom was foull and derk is more clere than | |||
| the sonne / there 1004 as whylom the body was seke and freel . | |||
| feble and mortal / Is inmortal and so stronge and so hool | |||
| that ther may no thing enpayre hit / 1005 there as neyther is hun | |||
| ger ne thrist ne colde / but euery soule replenesshid with the | |||
| sight of the parfyght knowyng of the trynyte / 1006 This bles- | |||
| ssid regne may man purchace by pouert spirytuel / and the | |||
| glorye by lownesse / the plente of Ioye by hunger and thrist | |||
| And the reste by trauayll / and the lyf by deth and mor- | |||
| tificacion of synne / To that lyf he vs brynge that bought | |||
| with his precyous blood Amen . | |||
| Explicit Tractatus Galfrydi Chaucer de | |||
| Penitencia vt dicitur pro fabula Rectoris . | |||