For he may seye right thus, pardee:—

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"Sir Preest, in shrift I telle it thee,

That he, to whom that I am shriven,

Hath me assoiled, and me yiven

Penaunce soothly, for my sinne,

Which that I fond me gilty inne;

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Ne I ne have never entencioun

To make double confessioun,