The Parson's Tale Folio 238v 23 of 30 folios
shullen yeue rekenynge of euerich ydel word /
a Iuge /
c
ere / ne for mede / he wol nat ben corrupt
mon the wrathe of god ne wol nat spare no wight
ere / ne for yifte / And therfore / at the day of dome / ther nys noon
hope to escape
anguisse / shullen the synful folk haue / at that tyme /
shal the stierne
the horrible pit of helle open to destroye hym
hise synnes / whiche synnes / openly ben shewed biforn god /
and biforn euery creature /
than herte may bithynke / for to harye and drawe the syn-
ful soules / to the pyne of helle /
folk / shal be the bityng conscience /
be the world al brennynge /
ched synful man fle to hyde hym / certes / he may nat hy
de hym / he moste come forth and shewe hym
seith Seint Ierome the erthe shal caste hym / out of hym /
and the See also /
der clappes
remembreth hym of thise thynges / I gesse that his synne
shal nat torne hym in delit / but to gret sorwe / for drede
of the peyne of helle /
fre lord /
oute returnynge to the dirke lond / cou
se of deeth /
is the shadwe of deeth / where as ther is / noon ordre / or
ordina
may ye seen /
wayle his trespas / for soothly / o day of respit / is bettre
than al the tresor of this world /
man may acquyte hym self biforn god by penitence in
this world / and nat by tresor / ; therfore sholde he preye to
god / to yeue hym respit awhile / to biwepe
his trespas /
make fro the bigynnyng of the world / nys but a litel
thyng