Many hongry meles, thurst, and cold.
All this the monkes han forsake
For Christes love and saynt Benet;
To pryde and esë have hem take;
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This religion is yvell beset.
Had they ben out of religioun,
They must have honged at the plow,
Threshing and dyking fro town to town
With sory mete, and not half y-now.