[Ne shulde I more been receyved]

As I was wont; and wostow why?

For I dide hem a tregetry;

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But therof yeve I litel tale,

I have the silver and the male;

So have I preched and eek shriven,

So have I take, so have [me] yiven,

Thurgh hir foly, husbond and wyf,

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