As lordes, they ben brode y-kend;
Of goddes pore they haten gestes;
God, for his mercy, this amend!
With †Dives such shall have hir doom
That sayn that they be Christes frendes,
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And do nothing as they shuld doon;
All such ben falser than ben fendes.
On the people they ley such bendes,
As god is in erthe, they han offend;