ye ben cursed children, so to sclaunder your †fader, and make
him imperfit. And if ye sayn that tho goodes be yours, then do
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ye ayenst youre rule; and if it be not ayenst your rule, than might
ye have both plough and cart, and labour as other good men don,
and not so begge to by losengery, and ydell, as ye don. And if ye
say that it is more perfeccion to begge than to travaill or worch
with youre hand, why preche ye not openly, and teche all men to
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do so, sith it is the best and moost perfit lyf to helpe of her