I wot noght, fader, what ye mene:

P. i. 62

Bot this I wolde you beseche,

That ye me be som weie teche 590

What is to ben an ypocrite;

And thanne if I be forto wyte,

I wol beknowen, as it is.[296]

Confessor.

Mi Sone, an ypocrite is this,—

A man which feigneth conscience,