The Parson's Tale Folio 420r 35 of 74 folios
Fyrst bi hate as seith seynt Io
his brothyr is homycide
ge of whiche bakbiteris seyth Salomon that they h
two swerdis / whith whiche they sleen heere neighe
borys / for sothe as wikke is it to be neme h
de name / as his lyf .
kede conseyl be fraude / As for to ȝeue conseyl to arey
se wrongful customys /
mon leo
crewel lordschepis in whiche lordschepis hold
abregynge of the schepe or the heere of the wagis of
serua
almesse of poore folk /
Fedith h
ȝif thow feede h
dedly synnys /
thow slest h
thow comaundist to sleen a man / or ellis ȝeuyst h
seyl to sleen a man . //
maneris / that oon is by laue ryght as a Iustise damp
nyth h
tise been war that he do it ryghtfully
not for delit to spille blood / But for kep
wisnesse /
whan a man sleth a nothir / in his defenda
that he ne may non othirwise askape
tere of his aduersarye / he doth s
pena
venture schete an arwe or caste a stoon wt whiche he
sleth a man he is homycide .
lygence ouyrlye hire child in hire slep
cyde /
oun of a child
kyng of venenouse erbis / thorw whiche sche may not
conseyue / or sleth a child be drynkis / or ellis puttyh
certey material thyngis / in here secre placys to slen
the child
or woman sleth here nature in manere or in place
theere as a child may not ben conseyuyd / Or ellis
ȝif a woman haue conseyuyd
the child ȝit is it homycyde /