The Parson's Tale Folio 420v 34 of 74 folios
theere as a child may not ben conseyuyd / Or ellis
ȝif a woman haue conseyuyd
the child ȝit is it homycyde /
men that morderyn here childeryn for dreed of wor
dely schame certis an horrible homycide /
is ek ȝif a man a
cherye thorw whiche the child is
smythitt a woman wet
nys / as weel in word as in thought
he that arrettith vp on god / or blamyth god of
thyng of whiche he is hym self gilty . or dispiseth
god /
sardourys in dyuerse cuntreis /
doon they / wh
kedely of god
tretyn onreuerently the sacrement of the au
teer / thilke s
it be relesid / but that the mercy of god passith
alle hise werkys / it is so greet
is scharply amonestid in his schryfte to forlete
synne /
hokyrly / and angyrly
ne / by onstedefastnesse of his flesch / or ellis he de
de it for to holde c
he seyde the feend entisede h
for his ȝouthe . or ellis his complexio
ous that he may not forbere / or ellis it is his des
tenye as he seyth in to a certeyn age / or ellis he seith
it comyth h
semblable thyngis //
so wrapp
not delyuere hemself // For sothly no wigh that
excuseth hym wilfully of his s
of his s
thanne comyth swerynge that is expres a geyn the
coma