The Multitext Edition > Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS. Peniarth 392 D
The Parson's Tale
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For as seith Seint Isydre
he is a Iapere
/ and a gabber
/ and
no verray repentant
þt eft soone dooth thyng
/ for which hym
oghte repente
wepynge
/ and nat for to stynte to do synne
/ may nat auaile
But nathelees men shal hope / þt at euery
tyme þt man falleth / be it neuer so ofte / þt he may arise þurgh
penitence / if he haue gace / but certeynly / it is greet dowte /
for
as seith Seint Gregorie
vnnethe
\vix/ ariseth he out of his synne
/that is charged
/ w
t the charge of yuel vsage
/
and ther fore /
repentant folk / þt stynte for to synne / & forlete synne / er þt
synne forlete hem / holy chirche / halt hem siker of hir saua-
cion /
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and he þt synneth / & verraily repenteth hym in his laste /
holy chirche / yet hopeth his sauaciou by the grete mercy of oure
lord Ihū crist for his repentance / but taak the siker wey \tene certu/~ /
and
now / sith þt I haue declared yow / what thyng is penitence ;
now shul ye vnderstonde / þt ther been .iij. accions of penitence /
¶ The firste is
/ þt if a man be baptised
/ after
þt he hath synned
Seint
Augustyn seith / but he be penitent / for his olde synful lyf / he may
nat bigynne / the newe clene lyf /
for certes / if he be baptised with
oute penitence of his olde gilt ; he receyueth the mark of baptes-
me / but nat the gace / ne the remissioū of hise synnes / til he ha-
ue repentance verray
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¶ Another defaute is this / that men doon
deedly synne / after þt they han receyued baptesme /
¶ The
thridde defaute is
that men fallen in venyal synnes after
hir
baptesme
/ fro day to day
ther of seith Seint Augustyn ;
That penitence
/ of goode and of humble folk
. is the penitence
of euery day
/
¶ The speces
\species/ of pena
ūce
/ been .iij.
that oon of
hem
/ is solempne
Another is c
ōmune
and the thridde is pri-
uee
¶ Thilke penaūce þt is solempne / is in two maneres / . as
to be put out of holy chirche in lente / for slaughtre of children /
and swich manere thyng
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¶ Another is / whan man hath synned
openly / of which synne / the fame / is openly spoken in the contree /
and thanne holy chirche / by Iugement destreyneth hym / for to
doon open penance //
Cōmune penaūce is / that preestes enioynen
men cōmunly / in certeyn cas / as for to goon perauenture naked in
pilgrymage / or barefoot
¶ Pryuee penaūce / is thilke þt men ~
doon al day for piuee synnes / of whiche / we shryue vs pryuely
and receyue pryuee penance
¶ Now shaltow vnderstande
/what bihoueth and is necessarie to verray
parfit penitence
/ and
this stant
/ on .iij. thynges
Contricio
ū of herte
Confessio
ū of
Mouth
/ and Satisfaccio
ū
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for which / seith Seint Ioħn Grisostomë