For many churches ben oft suspent;

All such falshed, yet foul it fall!

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Some liveth nat in lecherye,

But haunten wenches, widdowes, and wyves,

And punisheth the pore for putrye;

Them-selfe it useth all their lyves.

And but a man to them [him] shryves,

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To heven comë never he shall;