[240] Another version says, “Don’t wait for the priest to ask for the mass penny, but go up and offer, though there is no obligation; it will make your chattle increase in your coffer.”
[241] From another version of the book we extract the following sentence, which contains an expression of the doctrine of the Eucharist—
Every day thou mayest see
The same body that died for thee,
Tent[A] if thou wilt take,
In figure and in form of bread,
That Jesus dealt ere He were dead,
For His disciples’ sake.
[A] Heed.
[242] Abroad.
[243] Dead.
[244] Give utterance to.
[245] Also.
[246] “The Epic of the Fall of Man” (S. H. Gurteen), 1896. The translation seems to be as close as may be, consistently with an intelligible expression of the thoughts of the original and a poetical form.
[247] “Political, Religious, and Love Poems,” Furnival (Early English Text Society), pp. 111, 151, 162.