Albion Knight B1v transcription
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| But I neuer theles/wyll declare the popes bull | ||
| frere. | ¶ Now my frendes/I haue afore shewd ye | |
| pardo. | ¶ Now my maysters/as I haue afore declared | |
| frere. | That good it is to gyue your charyte | |
| pardo. | ¶ That pardoners from you may not be spared | |
| frere. | And further I haue/at lenghte to you tolde | |
| pardo. | ¶ Now here after/shall folow and ensew | |
| frere. | Who be these people/that ye receyue sholde | |
| pardo. | ¶ That foloweth of pardons/the great vertew | |
| frere. | That is to say/vs freres pore | |
| pardo. | ¶ We pardoners for your soules be as necessary | |
| frere. | That for our lyuynge must begge fro dore to dore | |
| pardo. | As is the meate/for our bodys hungry | |
| frere. | For of our own propre/we haue no proprethynge | |
| pardo. | For pardons is the thynge that bryngeth men to heuen | |
| frere. | But that we get/of deuout peoples gettynge | |
| pardo. | ¶ Pardons delyuereth them fro the synnes seuen | |
| frere. | And in our place/be fryers thre score and thre | |
| pardo. | ¶ Pardons for euery cryme may dyspens | |
| frere. | Which onely lyue/on mens charyte | |
| pardo. | Pardon purchasyth grace forall offence | |
| frere. | For we fryars/wylfull charyte professe | |
| pardo. | ¶ Ye though ye had slayne bothe father and mother | |
| frere. | We may haue no money/nother more nor lesse | |
| pardo. | ¶ And this pardon/is chefe aboue all other | |
| frere. | For wordly treasure we may nought care | |
| pardo. | ¶ For who to it offeryth/grote or peny | |
| frere. | Our soules must be ryche/and ourbodyes bare | |
| pardo. | ¶ Though synnes/he had done neuer so many | |
| frere. | And one thynge I had almoste left behynde | |
| pardo. | ¶ And though that he had all his kyndred slayn | |
| frere. | Which before/cam not to my mynde | |
| pardo. | ¶ This pardon shall ryd thē fro euer lastynge payne | |
| frere. | And doubtles it is none other thynge | |
| pardo. | ¶ There is no syn/so abhomynable | |
| frere. | But whan ye wyll gyue/your almes & offerynge | |
| pardo. | ¶ Which to remyt/this pardon is not able | |
| frere. | Loke that ye/dystrybute it wysely | |
| pardo. | ¶ As well declareth/the sentence of this letter | |
| frere. | Not to euery man/that for it wyll crye | |
| pardo. | ¶ Ye can not hterefore/bestow your money better | |
| frere. | For yf ye gyue/your almes in that wyse | |