pens.

34. Why wrytest thou hir names in thy tables, that yeveth thee

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moneye; sith god knoweth all thing? For it semeth, by thy

wryting, that god wolde not rewarde him but thou wryte him in

thy tables; god wolde els forgetten it.

35. Why berest thou god in honde, and sclaundrest him that he

begged for his mete; sith he was lord over all? For than hadde

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he ben unwyse to have begged, and no nede therto.