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The Parson's Tale Folio 401r 67 of 74 folios

men in certeyn cas / As for to goon perauenture nakid
in pilgrȳage or barefot .

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¶ Pryue penaūce is thil-
ke that men doon alday for certeyn sȳnys that been
pⁱue / of whiche we schryue vs pryuely / & receyue pⁱ-
ue penaūce /

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¶ Now schalt thow vndyrstonde what
is behofly & necessarie to verray parfit penytence & this
stāt on thre thȳgis .

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Contrycioū of herte / Confessioū
of mouthe / & Satisfaccioū /

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For whiche seyth seynt
Iohñ Crisostourë Penytence constrynyth a man to
accepte benȳgnely euery peyne that is enioyned hȳ .
w contricioū of herte & schrifte of mouthe . with satis-
faccioū . And in werkȳge of alle manere humylite /

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And this is freutful penytence a geyn .iij. thyngis . ī
wheche we wrethe oure lord Ihū cryst /

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this is to seȳ-
ne / by delyt in thȳkynge / by recheles nesse in spekȳge
And be wikkede sȳful werkȳge /

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And a geyn these we-
kede giltis is penytence that may be likkenyd vntil
a tree

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¶ The rote of this tre is contricioū / that hȳ-
dith hȳ in the herte that is verray repentaūt / righ
as the rote of a tree ; hydyth hȳ in the erthe .

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¶ Of the
rote of contricioū sprȳgith a stalke that berith braū-
chis & leuys of Confessioū & freut of satisfaccioū~

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¶ for
whiche Crist seyth in his gospel / Doth digne freut of
penytence / for by this freut may men knowe this
tree / & not by the rote that is hid in the herte of mā-
ne bi the braūchis ne by the leuys of Confessioū .

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And therfore oure lord Ihū Crist seyth thus by the
freut of hē ; schul ȝe knowȳ hem .

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¶ Of this roote
ek sprȳgith a seed of grace the whiche seed ; is modir
of sekyrnesse / & this seed is egre & hoot /

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the grace of
this seed sprȳgith of god tho^rw remembraūce of the
day of doome / & on the peynys of helle

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¶ Of this
mateere seyth Salomon that in drede of god / man for-
letyth his sȳne /

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the heete of this seed is the loue of
god / & desyrȳge of the Ioye pardurable /

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this heete dra-
with the herte of man to god / & doth hȳ hate his sȳ
ne /

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For sothly there is no thyng that saurith so weel
to a child as the mylk of his noryce / ne no thyng is
to hyre \selvyn/ more abhomynabele /

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Stubbs, Estelle, Michael Pidd, Orietta Da Rold, Simon Horobin and Claire Thomson with Linda Cross, eds. (2013). The Multitext Edition. The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales. Published by: University of Sheffield. Available at: <http://www.chaucermss.org/multitext> [Accessed 14 December 2024].

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